Thursday, June 13, 2013

Mustang Envy


Thursday June 13 2013

What is it that attracts you to the wrong type?

He's big, coarse, and a rogue. He's naughty and unrepentant. He belongs to someone else.

The first moment I laid eyes on him, I was in lust with him.

I've always had a thing for mustangs, but this Utah Slick is something else. The first time I saw him, he was trying to escape his pasture and let the whole herd out (for the second time in one day). He was huddled together with fellow handsome mustang Terminator at the gate, trying to figure out the triple latch system that owners Lee and Naomi had tried to trick him with.


In the herd of 18 pretty mustang and Arabian horses, it was Slick that my eyes instantly glommed onto. He sucked the breath right out of my chest. I couldn't tell you why - his buddy mustang Terminator is built a lot like Slick, and he's more colorful, but Slick tweaked my heartstrings immediately.


Part of it might have been that unrepentant gaze he threw my way when I caught him messing with the locks on the gate. He first ignored me, then stared at me as if to say, I wasn't doing anything, when we both knew he was totally guilty.

He paused in his machinations to let me come up and adore him. I petted him, worshiped him, told him he was terribly handsome, and drooled, all of which he acknowledged before he went back to his important monkey business.


Slick figured out the gate alright, deciphered and opened all 3 latches/locks, and let the herd out, two more times.

Just two more reasons to be in love with this hunky mustang.


(P.S. NO, I can't have a mustang. Owning, starting, riding my own mustang has been a dream for a long time. If I were 20 years younger, and knew back then what I know now, I'd own one. But I'm not, and I'm not, so I don't have a mustang. and NO, Stormy and Jose do not feel the least threatened by my Mustang Envy : )

16 comments:

  1. What is it about the bad boys... devastatingly attractive. ;D

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  2. Great to see such a sturdy Mustang. Love his Roman nose, and his (successful) quest for freedom.

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  3. He certainly is gorgeous :)

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  4. I think I am in love too! What a hunk.

    I agree with you about being younger and smarter. But that's not going to happen so ill just have to envy all those lucky mustang owners.

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  5. He is a hunky fellow. And so smart! Of course, the owners might not be as impressed after he keeps letting himself and the other horses out of the triple locked gate...

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  6. This is wonderful writing and what a story you have to tell.
    Came from Margaret's post with your gorgeous pictures, and here there are many more to relish.

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  7. He's a beauty, but he's no Jose! I prefer Jose to other boys.

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  8. I love your work!! Thank you so much for sharing your talent with Real Toads!! :)

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  9. I've had a few dog counterparts to Slick over the years--like you I still admire them, but have learned to just say NO.

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  10. Thanks from me, too, for your beautiful photos which Margaret used to inspire poetry at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads.
    K

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  11. So great to see your beautiful photos at Real Toads. Inspired by the one with yellow flowers but enjoyed all of them so much!

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  12. He is hunky but glad to see Jose is safe.

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  13. Ha ha. He is a handsome boy, not in a flashy way... kind of like Liam Neeson, the actor, big, hunky, and has something goin' on inside that head of his. :)

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  14. Now you're mentioning that "age" thing! Stop that! :-)

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