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I got this from another list and thought it would be fun to  pass along!

1. Get bucket or low tub, fill with warm water,  add Epsom salts until fully
diluted. Get horse, place in cross ties, pick up  foot, slide bucket or low
tub
into place, place horse's foot in tub.
2. Retrieve tub from corner  of barn, get towel to dry off your face.
3. Refill tub with water and Epsom  salts. Shorten cross ties. Pick up
horse's
foot and place in tub.
4.  Retrieve tub from other horse's stall, retrieve horse from his own 
stall.

Find bailing twine to fix broken crosstie. Wrap towel around head to dry
hair.
Check rapidly bruising toe for signs of breakage.
5. Place rocks  in bottom of tub to weigh it down. Snub horse to wall of
stall, refill tub  with water and Epsom salts. Pick up horse's foot and 
place
in
tub. Hold up  other front leg.
6. Pick self up off of stall floor. Find place outside  where tub has been
flung. Retrieve horse from neighbor's garden, pull rocks  out of horse's
water
bucket, call spouse for opinion on whether or not wrist  may be broken.
Explain
multiple times to emergency room staff that you did  not fall off the horse.
7. Return to home, enlist spouse to hold horse,  hobble hind legs, tie up
front leg, fill tub with water and salt, slide tub  into place, while 
pinning
horse
against wall.
8. Apologize to spouse as  they view hoof prints across favorite shirt.
Wonder
if water and Epsom salts  is bad for new wrist cast. Check out burgeoning
black eye from broken  hobbles. Retrieve horse from cattle farm across the
road.
Share laugh with  cattle farmer about how fast horse can move on only three
legs.
9. Go to  grocery store to purchase ice packs, ibuprofen, more Epsom salts,
and  scotch.
10. Call vet and ask them to come over and show you how to soak a  foot. 
Pour
self tall glass of scotch while waiting.



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