I have this lovely rope electric fencing (electra-braid I believe). It took forever to put all the posts in the ground, set-up all the insulators and actually string the fence,it also cost a small fortune. Now it is guaranteed for something like 6years and none of the five horses or four cows that I have ever had turned out during the last 5 years have gotten loose while the fence was hot. however it is not invincible...
This morning when I got up, my normally impeccable fence was lying on the ground. Now I have had vandals before and my horses are so terrified of the fencing my first thoughts were to blame the sketchy neighbor's kids. So almost jumping up and down with frustration I fixed it best I could and was just a minute or two late for work.
Then early this evening when it was still a good seventy degrees (amazing for April in Vermont) and so I headed out the the barn super excited about riding my little green baby. I skip down the driveway day-dreaming about having a nice stress free ride learning to hand gallop (baby, not me) and popping over a couple little crossrails, needless to say, this was not meant to be. Sure enough, I catch him in his paddock bring him and start grooming, alls well until I get to his left front cannon... Its just hot and swollen enough to warrant the the day off at the least.
So I was doomed to finish the fixing of the fence which took until dusk, leaving no time for riding my fun and fully trained horse. Oh well... There is always tomorrow.
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