I Hate Monday, says Camilla

I'm glad people like my horse-neep posts. Having grown up surrounded by blank stares and "Oh. How nice. /subject," I find this a bit disconcerting. But in a very pleasant way.

So, all together now, in chorus:

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! HORSIES!

No riding today. Da Pook is still the Shoeless Wonder. However Mike the Wonder Vet did arrive for Fall Shots. Horses, you see, get two checkups-with-shots a year. The big whammy is in the spring before the summer sick season--all the different forms of encephalitis (to which horses are terribly susceptible--West Nile is pretty much an all-fatal disease for them) plus flu and a couple of other nasties. In the fall we get flu and rabies and the annual "better do assorted sets of teeth over the winter" check, plus overall checkups and health questions.

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And that was Our Day, With Vet--or as Camilla-the-War-Mare would have it, Black Monday.

Poor Camilla. Life's a grand opera, and she's Tosca.