Ooof!! Son of a .... dracula!
The neighborhood finally has kids, so they sent out a thing saying that they wanted to do trick or treating. So... if you wanted to participate you could turn on your porch light and put a balloon on your mailbox. It would be from 6 pm to 8 pm. Cool! So we did... I got home from work around 5:45ish.. and stayed on the phone for a hair longer. Then I got the ponies in to feed and was hoping that I could get them all fed before the halloween festivities really started! Just in case the ponies got distracted. It didn't dawn on me that they would be terrified!
I managed to get them all fed and gave them all their last adequan dose. And Lyric had the bemer cuffs on getting her legs bemered. So I decided to k-tape Dan because a client had showed me the medial patellar ligament support taping application. Perfect! It's a three step process, with three strips of tape. I got the first strip done. Then the second one was a bit trickier because the trick or treaters had started up. And it was finally getting dark. And they had glow sticks. But it was okay because they were still coming down the road. So... Funny had run out and was concerned... and Lyric was concerned but was still in her stall, and Dan got concerned. He started pacing but I was able to finish the second step. I knew I would have to hurry, so I managed to get the third step done as he was circling the stall, and paused to poop. Phew!! Okay... done. I opened his door and let him out because he was so worried. And then I opened Lyrics door to let her out. As she bolted out I was like "Aghhhhh...her bemer boots!!!!". Dammit!!! So they all bolted out and were prancing in the field where I toss hay. Then they ran a little bit and stopped halfway up the hill. I managed to grab the boots off Lyric thankfully! No damage. Thank you God! At that point it dawned on me... oh crap!! Dan's broken.. he should NOT be running around. Unfortunately at this point the kids had made it to the culdesac and were running up Jean's driveway.. their glow sticks bobbing in the dark, and chattering away. Totally cool, except... the horses were freaking out!! So they all went bolting off again... NOOOO!!!! Ugh... there was nothing I could do... they all ran around for about 10 minutes... alarm snorting... blowing... galloping.... sliding stops. I wanted to cry.
Luckily by the time I had the hay out, Dan was walking towards us. He didn't look any worse for the wear, but I'm sure the adrenaline hadn't worn off yet. I sat with them a bit longer and by then they had cooled off enough to put clothes on for the night. Sweet dreams buddy... let's pray hard that you didn't re-avulse it and undo any healing we've made. Perhaps the K-tape was enough to keep you from making it too much worse. I did thank God for putting the cards into place for having me know how to do that application today and getting it done in time.
