Chapter 3 :~) - The horse.
This is a short chapter, a sub-story within the story, a post-storm horse management issue. As we were still walkin' around assessing and inspecting things, this woman comes trotting down the road past the pasture on this grey horse, a line of cars behind her.
She goes to the store next door...
It was just a real unusual thing for us to see, and a cool thing to do, I guess, except it really caused a ruckus with our horses. Bay started snorting around and running the fence line and the thing that pissed me off was that after I took this picture, I went back home and was nervously watching the situation, and she went over even closer to the horses, into the weedy area between the store and the pasture and was just hanging around for awhile, watching my horses go.
I went back out there and said "Lady, you have got to get out of here. Those are my horses, and our power is out to that fence and you are creating a problem. I've had a hard night and I don't need my horses to run the fence." She seemed quite unalarmed, and got down off her horse and started trying to kick a poo pile off the pavement and said "Well I have to get rid of this, or the store might get mad" I said "Don't worry about the poop. Just GO. I'll clean it up for you" "I don't want them to get mad about it" "I'll handle it. Go. Please! You can't hang out here!" "Well I have to go by them again on the road to get by" I said "I know... just DO IT." I could believe how dense she was about what I was trying to say. I finally just ran and caught Bay and put them in the back forty where they had a lot more distance and would have to run two fence lines to get to her. No telling what she got at the store... My own theory with all the downed trees, she maybe couldn't get out on her road and was out of cigarettes. Heh... People will go to extreme lengths when they are out of cigarettes, like riding their horse down the road. It was just such an unusual event. No one ever rides down that road on a horse, and Bay found it to be really exciting.