The Klutz

You wouldn't really notice it just looking at him, but this guy here, he is the biggest Klutz that ever walked on four legs. No, I take that back... he is actually pretty balanced normally, but when it comes to special situations, like trying to make friends with other horses across a barbed wire fence, he downright stinks at agility.

Apollo cut up his right fore leg and his chest today on barbed wire. I was feeling fragile today, so something like this if course would send me into hyper-drive. So, since I had failed to assemble a good horsie first aid it, I had to gather the required supplies to tend his wounds. First, I headed to the local hardware store, which reputedly carries ranch supplies. However, when I got there, there was a pitifully dimiutive supply of... heh, ranch supplies! So, I ask the two teenaged sales people where I could find what I was looking for, and after plenty of vague directions given in "like, um" speech, I was able to discern the approximate position of a likely provider of the items I was searching for (betadine solution, leg wraps, cloth bandage, wound-healing pastes, tetanus vaccination solution, needle, syringe, etc.). So, I drive the fifteen minutes it takes to get to Smith and Edwards, reputedly "The Greatest Store In The World", and lo and behold, this Super Store does not carry betadine! Well, I again ask where I can find the elusive betadine solution; this time, I actually was able to understand the directions given, and with no trouble at all arrive at my (hopefully) last destination: C.A.L. Ranch! Now, C.A.L. Ranch is very similar to Tractor Supply Co., so of course I was able to procure the aforementioned items!

(You know, this story had a point when I started, but now I have forgotten it, so it ends here. Oh, I doctored up Apollo's leg and my father-in-law gave the shot, and through it all my horsie was a gentleman! So he was rewarded with a yummy apple straight from the orchard.)

Eh, I feel like I am running out of steam! I think NaBloPoMo will be the death of me.