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Rose!!! {{{Rose}}}

Thanks for you nice message the other day. Didn't get a reply out. Yes, we're doing all of that stuff at once.

Dopey me. I have the power to stop it but now it has gathered it's own inertia... :-)

Hullo Ramius! - Gave Bay his first bath and clip of the year today. Was almost warm enough out, but I think he found the hose to be awfully cold.

I lunged him afterwards to warm him back up, he seemed frisky enough. He felt good... I am glad. An old man who lives across the street walked up that I soon recognized as old Dr. Smith, a retired veterinarian from Deschutes years ago. He started to tell me that hard lunging was not good for a young horse's legs. I said..... "Yes... but he is 22!" - "OH I SEE" he said. He said... "I assumed this was the baby you had in here... You had a mare and foal last summer". I said "No, I had an old gelding and pony" and I called over to the pony.

He was embarrassed a little already, but he then he said "Why are you working him so hard?" looking at Bay, standing there soaking wet. I said "He's wet from a bath, I am lunging him in the sun to warm him up from the cold hose" "OH - I see, I thought that was all sweat".

He was nice, and I am glad he would stand up and say something if he saw someone working a yearling horse on the lunge line till they were drenched with sweat.... But I had to think as a vet, he was maybe right to have retired when he did.

Then again, Bay prolly must have looked pretty good to have been mistaken for a yearling!

Then we saddled up and rode a bit.

You poor, poor man!

Looks like you picked the wrong week to stop smoking!

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