It was a bad day, ended with Kyra time though 🙂

Today was horrid, at least until I got home. Let me start from the beginning.

Today was another day of going to the mountain to herd cows. With the exception of sorting off calves to haul to a feedlot for sale.

No big deal, or so I thought.

I drove up the cattle hauler, being a cdl driver my dads boss asked if i could drive it and haul calves so that he wouldnt have to hire somebody to do it. (I volunteer alot and always work free for my dads boss. He's a great guy, my dads friend, and it helps my dad out (thats the important part))

Again, no big deal. This is actually the only thing that went good today.

So we get up there, i line up the cattle hauler to chute. Turn the truck off. Hop out and go over to my dsds truck and horse trailer. Get my horse all set up (bridle, breast collar, and tighten the front and)
rear cinch).

So far so good.

Then i go to get on, and she's a total stink head about it. After a few tries i got on, got a little teasing from everyone and we were on our way to round up cattle.

The start of a ride is typically a bit of a pain, as horser are full of energy snd ready to go go go. So i didnt suspect immediately that there was anything out of the ordinary.

Hahaha, I was so wrong....

She was a giant capital B rhe entire time. Practically to the point that i was more of a problem than helpful with herding cattle.

She wouldnt reign, sulked, threw fits, charged, reared up, threw her head, and just plain stone jswed about everything. Vasically her head was stuffed up her backside. Overly difficult and it was suprising I didnt get hurt worse than I did.

I did end up getting hurt.

The littlest of whuch was getting slammed in the saddle over and each time she reared, bolted, charged, leapt side wise, etc... pretty sure the jewels now reside somewhere at the base of my throat with as much trauma as they suffered today.

This was the smallest of injuries sustained.

On the final stretch of herding the cattle to the corral, she threw her biggest tantrum of the day.

Reared up and slammed her head so far backwards that my forehead connected with her forehead.

Oh my goodness it hurt!

She charged immediately as her front feet hit the ground, running full out without paying attention. I bailed from the saddle, full of adrenaline, my head not hurting just yet. Ripped down on the rains in a flyud motion dragging her to a stop.

(I actually think it was rather impressive, woulf have been awesome to catch it on camera)

I then proceeded to herd cattle the last mile on foot, making her jog behind me.

It sucked

By the time we got to the corral and everything sorted, my head was pounding, still is hours later (no bruising Suprisingly) .

In the mess of sorting cattle (cows from calves) i got kicked, squished, and my left foot crushed (large bruise on my arch - it's a bit tender, but not bad)

Anyways, got the calves loaded (74)

I hauled them overvto the feed lot a couple hours drive, and then commenced the icing on the cake for the day.

Right as we started offloading, i reached up in with stick to get the calves moving out the trailer so we could get in to push them out. Calf slipped and kicked out, catching a foot full of lovely green fresh manure, and sending it flying perfectly through the hole and onto the whole of the left side of my face.

Yuck!

Finished the job, got home, unloaded the days troubles to my wife. Who did her best not to laugh at the last part. She failed, she laughed her butt off, and so did I.

Full message ensued, muchly needed, and now I'm soaking in the hot tub, trying to destress from todays trouble. Legs and arms are freshly shaved, and the water is nice lovely rose smell. Spoiling Kyra for a bit and letting her have the wheel the rest night, maybe she'll have a better night, than I did a today.

Hugs,
Kyra

P.s.

Im okay, just really sore.