A Day of Great Greyness and Great Greatness.
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7am, dark and noisy outside.
I really do not wish to share nature’s show of power.
But the horses are waiting.
They know dawn is coming and with it, breakfast.
Who would know that a plastic bucket of food pellets could bring such joy.
Tell a child that the vitamin and calcium supplements are good for him and wait for the bottom lip tremble.
I can hardly see.
Rain, wind driven into my eyes.
But I can feel the excitement from Aromat, Truc de Fou and Avenir.
This is every morning, dancing hooves, head back and calling to the skies.
The rain is nothing.
Breakfast is all.
Faces into buckets, I get a moment to press my forehead to theirs.
Their body heat is amazing.
A greeting, a snorty chuckle given freely to me.
Aromat is a gentle eater and likes his jaw scratched whilst chewing.
Eye to eye is such a privilege.
But not when he belches.
To the stables and I am just soaked.
Whatever I wear the wind gets the rain in and under it.
Gills would be good.
Pull the doors back and latch them, rain discovering new breaches in my breeches.
Belle and the foal are waiting.
Comfortable and warm on the straw.
Catapulte wakes.
She is on the foal’s neck, sleepy yawns blowing into it’s ear.
The foal stirs, throwing Catapulte off and a nose to nose greeting, horse to dog is the morning ritual.
Three colts are next.
Boisterous teenagers who know everything.
No menace, but in the muddy paddock care is taken, they run, but with no brakes.
As S&G said… Slip sliding away…
And they are done.
Catapulte sat expectantly on my knee, a titbit to come.
My morning pass by the patch where Toto and his grandson Pepito are buried.
I still talk to them.
C’est la Vie, a stallion, screams defiance at the world, demanding mares.
Untrained when rescued, he is a biter and a kicker.
I am beginning to be tolerated, a quick chin scratch is allowed, followed by a glare any Mother in Law would be proud of.
Home to clean and light the fire.
Dry clothes are good.
My cat has deigned to rise.
Another breakfast demander.
A pounding on my door and a drowning neighbour is standing with a bag of eggs in her hand.
And a cep.
Horses, dog and cat are fed.
It is our turn.
Cep, eggs and one pan.
No plates.
Two forks.
It does not get better.
A day of Great Greyness and Great Greatness.
I love it here.
Sounds good to me Stinks, aren’t we lucky to enjoy what we have in life? Mind you it does help that we find happiness in simple pleasures, with you it’s the closeness you have with those lovely horses, Catapulte and the other animals. Thanks for sharing.
As always, could see the scene in my head reading you, thank you for sharing your writter skill with us
YAWN
You really need to live here to appreciate the precise description of the atmosphere. I love it as it really feels right. May not be to everybody’s liking, but … such is life.
I lived and worked our own business, full time for 7 years in Brittany, so have a good understanding of the place. I find Stinkys ‘stories/poems’, whatever they may be, very boring. I normally wouldn’t tell someone this, but Stinky has a love of constantly ‘putting me down/winding me up’ for no reason, as in, he always starts trouble, so therefore, it doesn’t hurt me to tell him, that his postings are down right boring
I lived and worked our own business, full time for 7 years in Brittany, so have a good understanding of the place. I find Stinkys ‘stories/poems’, whatever they may be, very boring. I normally wouldn’t tell someone this, but Stinky has a love of constantly ‘putting me down/winding me up’ for no reason, as in, he always starts trouble, so therefore, it doesn’t hurt me to tell him, that his postings are down right boring
Where does Stinky ‘wind you up’ or ‘put you down’ in that
passage ? And why bother to read his post(s) if you find them boring or if they offend you ?You nowt better to do ?
What a beautiful morning .
I don’t feel that Stinky’s descriptions of his life in the Limousin are boreing at all . In fact they mirror our feelings of living in France.
Life is what you make of it.
Pete, take a look at cryptic clues and read back a bit. Then you will see where he’s having a dig at me to get my back up. Care to see also, that he started it for no reason whatsoever. I find that very unfair
Sunflower I wouldn’t read anything that I found boring, I’m not quite sure why you do, as for being ‘wound up’ it’s always better to ignore someone trying to ‘wind you up’ I find, otherwise they have succeeded.
I don’t read them Fruitcake. Also, unfortunately, I can’t just ignore this constant winding up from him. It’s very unfair and also very unnecessary. I feel he should be warned by management to stop, as have others, when they do it!
Sorry S, I don’t follow the cryptic stuff now as they are mostly way over my head.
But why bother at all Sunflower? If you know they’re going to be boring to you so won’t read them I don’t get why you open the post
I commented, as Stinky has no right to wind me up. I’m sorry, but I give as good as I get. He has no right to say the things he says to me. This might sound childish to you, but if someone had a go at you for no reason, wouldn’t you retaliate. I seem to think you have done and fairly recently!
Whatever Sunflower, personally I love reading Stinky’s stories about the horses and Catapulte, I love reading any nice stories about animals and I like the way Stinky writes, which is why I read them, each to his own.
Whatever
Exactly
Fruitcake, like you I like to read nice stories of animals, unfortunately I don’t find Stinky’s stories nice. I see horses being treated in a very old fashioned and harsh manner. Stinky doesn’t seem willing to investigate more modern methods or to understand horse body language.
I know nothing about horses but I am happy when one races first past the post for me.
Boots, can you tell me where in Stinky’s story displays less than modern horse body language?
Innocent question.
I haven’t seen any horses being treated in a harsh manner and I strongly doubt he would be in any way associated with that! His French friend has horses that he has helped with when in labour in the middle of the night , there is nothing to suggest this was in any way in a cruel manner. I suggest you owe Stinky a public apology for suggesting otherwise!
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