Making the Most of Summer with Horses

me to overstate my appreciation for the ability to finally! bathe my horse. Baths! Baths forever! And the months ahead are full of them. No more currying until my arm is sore hot toweling and minding a giant fleece cooler wrapped mare for an hour while I wait for her to be dry enough to blanket. A quick spritz! A quick scrape! And were off! To graze! In the 7 p m. sun!
On the other hand I know I said baths forever but baths forever? And it wont be a quick spritz and scrape because my horse is sweaty in ways and places that cannot be erased with a quick anything. She needs an actual bath which she resents with actual shampoo which she loathes. And damp legs mean fungus and fungus means special soaps and special soaps means more baths and more baths mean more fungus. And now my mares mad. Apologize.
Wet Everything
In addition let me assure you I really love the enthusiasm with which you tackled my moaning about the lack of moisture in the air all winter. The dry air is gone! The dry hands are gone! The dry hooves are gone! The horsey dandruff is gone! The rubbedraw tops of dry horse tails are gone!
But also the dry air is gone. The dry hooves are gone. And now my horse is rubbing the top of her tail because she is irritated from merely existing in the putrid atmosphere. And now shes showing a full white corner of her eyeball as I slather her with potions to prevent her from balding in the muggy sticky heat.
Since the summer started everything in my horse life has been running a lowgrade fever of moist. It doesnt matter how many desiccants and deodorizing packs I cram into my drenched helmet

and steamy boots. My helmet liner is going to be wet tomorrow. My boots are going to mildew. And in the end I will beg for blanket season.
Saving Daylight
Finally whomever stepped up and made summer days last longeryoure my hero. There are roughly 39 hours of sunlight in every day which means maximum hours to spend at the barn after I leave the office.
And I have nothing to add here. Extra summer daylight hours are a heavensent apology from Beezie herself for the five seconds of civil twilight we have to ride in every day during the winter. And even
I wouldnt dare complain about that.