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Title: Re: [RC] rain in LA area

> In a message dated 1/9/2005 12:31:26 PM
> Pacific Standard Time, Dbeverly4@xxxxxxx writes:
> > I lost an Ariat clog this
> > morning in the muck!  Its still in there somewhere....couldn't
> > find the dang thing in the deep mud.  I must have looked
> > hysterical especially since I decided to keep feeding with just one
> > clog on that kept trying to get sucked off too (why did I care if I
> > saved that one??).   Luckily my neighbors had the good sense
> > to be inside and not out laughing at me. <g>
> Hey Sylvia what are you doing wearing
> clogs in the mud? LOL I will have you know  the mud can suck off
> an Ariat Hexal paddock boot fully zipped up faster than you can drop a
> flake of hay into manure/mud/muck puddle!
>  
> I've resort to feeding pellets....though
> my prissy arab won't eat them...so I'll be slogging the hay
> wheelbarrow again shortly <sigh>. This time I'll but plastic
> bags over my feet...not that will make me look any less foolish. I'm
> renaming my property "A River runs through it."
>  
> Mel

It looks to get worse before it gets better:  http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?wfo=lox&sid=lox&pil=afd

Just be glad you don't have a Show Barn neighbor like I do -- she reported me to animal control this week because, among other things, my horses were standing in the mud (actually,  about the only true thing in  the whole complaint)!

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Lynn Kinsky, Santa Ynez, CA
http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky/