HEAT

Friday June 28 2013

The picture of that burning yellow globe in a flaming orange sky in the weather forecast, accompanied by the words "Heat Advisory in effect blah blah" brings some of us to our knees whimpering piteously.


Others beat the heat by playing in the water - like Jose.

I can't do anything with a water hose out by the paddock without Jose coming up for a hose-off. If he has access to a sprinkler, he'll stand over it and spin himself around that to cover all sides, but best is when I hold the water hose and he gets wet just exactly how and where he likes it.

Here he is last year at City of Rocks, doing his thing in the heat.

Owyhee Dirtbags

Wednesday August 24 2011

This is one gang that truly loves to wallow in dirt and mud. Naturally, the whitest horse likes to find the thickest mud hole.

When a human puts up a sprinkler on a plot of dirt on a hot day and makes you a custom mud patch, how can any rational equine resist a shower then a good roll in the mud?






Some of the horses accidentally get sprinkled on and it's enough to make them want to roll. Jose has already shown he loves sprinklers, and he loves to get good and wet.

The herd stands around taking turns, watching each other roll (unless they just can't wait their turn and have to crowd in there), scoring each other for style and dirtiness.






Jose obviously won for Best Shower-er.
[slide show here]


They all had a go at the rolling,




but Mac hands down won the Dirtiest Horse Award.








They are Owyhee Dirtbags and proud of it!



No, Rushcreek Mac has not turned into an Appaloosa!

Hot Day Cool Horse

Saturday September 18 2010

Were you one of those kids who played outside in the sprinkler on a hot summer day?

Jose is.

















Sometimes once isn't enough.

Hot Horse

Tuesday May 19 2009

How do you stay cool on the first 95* day of almost-summer? How do you keep the biting bugs off on the buggiest day of almost-summer?

If you are one of The Others, you stand motionless with the least surface area facing the sun that's beating down, and you try to use somebody else's tail to fend off the bugs.

If you're Jose, obviously you walk up to where the sprinklers are going, and you hose yourself down. You pivot in circles so you get all sides covered,















you spray your chest really well where the bugs bite the worst,


you spray your head,



you get your butt,



you spray under your head,




you spray your cheeks,



you get one last sprinkle from the top.







Then you go have a good roll in the dust, so you have a nice coating of dirt and mud that keeps the intense heat and the bugs off.















What kid doesn't like playing in the water sprinklers and the dirt and mud?