Your horse has a masseuse, chiropractor, and an acupuncturist whereas you have had one manicure in your life...and it was for a wedding...and the bride made you do it...
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When you don't even notice that everything you own smells like the barn, but everyone else can smell you coming from a mile away. And even when you do notice, it doesn't smell bad like veryone tells you it does!Comment
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When you sweep your barn aisle and it is cleaner than your kitchen floor-and you insist that the barn aisle be swept daily! Not for the kitchen floor.
When you have talked about your horses, breeding, training etc., so much to your co-workers, who are not horse people, that they now ask appropriate questions!
When you see other co-workers and their first questions is "so how are the horses?", or "do you have any new babies".
When you will go carry out hot water in gallon Milk jugs in 20 degree weather, okay it's zero with the wind chill, fill a 40 gallon water tank for the run-in horses just so their water does not freeze overnight. And you carry hot water down to the barn horses too. Mind you I won't even make a cup of coffee for my husband.
When you would rather look at horse trailers than shoes but you do own more riding boots then high heels.
And my favorite, when you can throw a bale of hay farther than your husband and you (me) are 5'5 and 150 pounds and he is 6'1 and 275 pounds. Oh yeah!Comment
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When you yell "door".... every time you enter a room.
Not that I do that or anything...
"This thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down" - Mary PickfordComment
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When your co-workers routinely pull hay out of your hair and don't laugh.
When you won't date a guy who doesn't like animals and wants to live in the city.
When every tchotcke in your house is horsey.********
There is no snooze button on a cat that wants breakfast.Comment
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Just the other day I came home from the barn, managed to take a quicky shower and my family annouced we were going out to dinner. Run back to my room to find my paddock boots, my winter paddock boots, muck boots, and an extra pair of muck boots. Came out with the muck boots (they're just so comfy and warm!) and was asked, "don't you have any normals shoes SOMEWHERE?"Comment
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When you cluck at the car in front of you while stuck in a traffic jam.It's a uterus, not a clown car. - SayyedatiComment
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">...when you finally make a doctor's appointment for yourself and keep referring to it as "seeing the vet"... </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
When you drive your car like you ride your horse, half halts and all and every so often get a nagging feeling in one of the seatbones making you think whether or not the car is uneven behind (AKA has a flat) or it's the road.
Having your cell phone die on you for no apparent reason and when you were finally able to open the supertight shell, you find teeny, weeny pieces of HAY in there and upon removal of said hay the phone happily responds again......
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">When you cluck at the car in front of you while stuck in a traffic jam. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
OK now ROFLMAO
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When there are more shavings and hay in your dryer's lint trap than lint.
When you can't find the spare tire in your tiny miata trunk because you can't get past the saddle pads, lunge lines, boots, polos, paddock boots, half chaps..........
When you yell out to a lady in the grocery store "passing on the inside."
This might be icky for some but it's a true story. When you and a friend just spent the last 30 minutes elbow deep in a horses sheath trying to find the golden egg, then lean up against a wall and both of you light a cigarette and have no problem smoking the thing with the same hand you'd just been mining with??? Didn't even think about it
When you have a serious phobia of spiders in real life but are able to play super saver of horsie if you spot one on your baby. Apply this to bees as well.
Geez!! I could go on and on. This is a great thread.
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When you bring a stallion edition of a magazine to school and start squealing so loudly at the pretty studs that people come over look, see the horses and go jeez "with all the noise you were making I thought you were looking at pictures of nakie Orlando Bloom." ^^;;
When you talk about breeding your mare to so and so stallion and have her matings planned out until she's 30 and your friends start referring to you as the "horse-pimp."www.windyislesfarms.com
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Oh, you nicely step over your other leg sideways in a store and think, now that was a mighty fine leg yield.......
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When you don't even notice that you're covered in hay and shavings, much less worry about it.Comment
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you look at your non-horsie neighbors landscaped lawn and think : hmmm nice grazing, I wonder if they would mind."I reject your reality and substitute my own" Adam Savage--Mythbusters
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Or worse yet, have that same thought about your local golf course.Comment
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When you find out your boss is going to a conference in the Netherlands and you say "oh, hey can you bring me back some semen?"
When you can't stop referring to your son's pediatrician as "the vet"
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can relate to calling the doctor the vet .... but comparing the doctor's diagnosis with that of the vet?? "Well, Julia (my vet) says that the muscle cramp is probably caused by a lack of magnesium and you want me to go for an ultrasound for a blood clot??" (I had tired legs ... and, yes, the magnesium worked a treat and the ultrasound showed that I had no blood clots!)
... When your paddock is absolutely spotless and you dnt care about the 2-3 hours spent mucking each week. Yet, the housework (which takes all of ONE HOUR) doesnt get done .... and you employ a house cleaner to come in once a week and "do" it - including emptying the dishwasher and washing machine... albeit she does comment on the weight of the saddle blankets when wetComment
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by BornToRide:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">When you cluck at the car in front of you while stuck in a traffic jam. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
OK now ROFLMAO </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
OMG, I found myself clucking to my dog one day... luckily I don't think anyone in the house heard it, or I'd still be getting teased!
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When you say 'git over' to your SO as you hip check him on the way by.
You go to the local Pub and sit at the crowded bar. Within fifteen minutes both seats alongside are empty and non of the 'standers' park their butts. Actually a bunch of us 'barn chicks' used to do this - I was usually pretty much covered in horsehair, shavings, slobber, and of course manured boots. I was sent ahead to sit at the bar, about 15 minutes later a few more would stop in and sit in the vacated bar stools. within 45 minutes we would have about 12 seats at the bar. VERY FUNNY!
I also teach and it gets mighty cold so usually have lots of layers on that don't even remotely 'go-together'. I think nothing of hitting the grocery store, TJ Maxx, CVS, or even the local pub dressed in my barn finery.
Most important things to get at the grocery store? Carrots, molasses, big 5 jug of Veggie oil, carrots, peppermint discs, big jar of applesauce, big jug of cheapo apple juice.
Oh and cream and coffee for me!
Barnwork before housework - seeing as my barnwork is never done....well the house work is never started by me.
The SO has gotten so fed up that he now does most of the cleaning and grocery shopping. He also gets my hay for me so I don't go on a shopping frenzy at the feed store.
To respond to another poster - the non-horsey set has the problem.Comment
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I had to attend hubby's formal Christmas party. I forgot my good gloves so I grabbed the barn gloves from my car. I got the strangest looks from some of the attendees. It's a little horse hair!If you cannot set a good example, at least serve as a terrible warning....
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