It was a glorious, sunny day around here yesterday - not a cloud in the sky and only a small breeze blowing through. I took advantage of this good weather and finally gave Curly a bath.
There is such a contrast between the two horses when it comes to bath time. In most aspects, Monte is the better behaved, better trained animal. But when it comes to water, I'll take Curly any day! It's not that Curly actually enjoys his bath time, but he is tons calmer about the process than Monte is.
Once I washed a year's worth of dirt off his back, Curly turned that wonderful reddy-gold brown that I absolutely love. He is amazingly beautiful when he's all spiffed up.
I had to spend a bit of time working some nasty snarls out of his mane. This was probably the only difficult part of the process. Other boarders from the barn were coming back from a fundraiser ride up at the local reservoir by this time and Curly was anxious about all the activity swirling around him. But we got the job done.
I know that when we go out again today, he'll be back to his regular dirty self. Nothing like a good roll in the dirt right after a bath! (sigh)
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