Got Socks?

The funniest thing happened Thursday! I do not know exactly how many inches of rain we have received over the last two weeks, but take my word for it--it's a lot. That's important information when you think about how much mud that is, right? Well, on Thursday I was up feeding the horses with Lynn and the bottom, downhill side of the feed boxes is pretty deep mud. It's the kind of mud that sucks your foot in about five inches up your calf, right? For as long as I have been feeding with Lynn and Shirley they have told tales about falling in the muck, losing a boot, etc. Well, it finally happened.

I had my head down in the feedbox with Brady. I was putting the hay out and Lynn was graining everybody. Over the noise of the four-wheeler, I heard a loud squawk. Lynn was up near Jupiter's box and I figured he had done something to her. But then I realized she seemed to be struggling and moving away from him. As I watched her, she squawked again and went down. "Aaaaaghhhh! Dang it! It's cooooold!" I started laughing--she had stepped out of her boot, lost her sock, and when she went to try to get it, came out of the other one, too!

Brady and I just watched her. She looked like a baby bird learning how to fly. She flopped her big ol' rain slicker around and had socks flying at the end of her waving arms as she tried to get her balance and get her boots back on. He went back to eating and I went to rescue the grain bucket because as she flailed around, the three orange horses saw their opening to eat out of the grain bucket. So not only was she bootless, gushing manure and horse pee mud in between her toes, she had greedy, nosy boys standing all around her.

The whole time she shrieked, "It's cold! Look out! My good socks!" and of course, "Stop laughing!" So I got the grain and convinced Jupes to go back to his box and took Indy to his box, but not Zigs. You know that boy loves his momma. He stood right in front her with his forehead next to hers while she struggled to regain her balance, her boots, and her dignity (?). Ha! I don't know if I've ever heard her hit a high note like that before.

I laughed for an hour. She even had mud on her nose.

I know karma is going to get me--but dang! it was funny!