One in a million shot?
In what can only be described as a calamity, one of the most unlikely things happened this morning. I was planning on taking one of the young horses for a walk and was getting her ready. The flies have been nasty with all this warm wet weather we’ve been having so I sprayed down a ear bonnet with fly spray and placed it on her head and then holding on to her lead rope I proceeded to spray her down.
This is when the trouble began; she spooked at the spray, flung her head to the side and somehow managed to hook her halter on a carabineer that was on the large sliding door the barn. Of course now she’s attached to the door and started running backwards taking the barn door with her. She managed to take the door of f its track and break the top board in the process. Thankfully the carabineer was attached to the door with jute twine which broke and released her from the door.
Apparently the event wasn’t too scary because once freed she immediately stopped and started eating grass, carabineer still snapped to her halter. *sigh* Looks like I’ve got some repair work to do this weekend. At least the door is open enough that I can still walk horses in/out of it and get a wheelbarrow through. I also found a replacement board in my hay storage area that is a perfect replacement for the broken board.
The hard part will be taking a door that big off and even harder is getting it back on the track!
