Eat Cake

"Have you heard about the birthday parties where they've smuggled a pony up the highrise elevator?" Roomie asked as she stepped in the door.

As Jill got home and felt so suddenly ill, she thought back over what she'd eaten. Then, she worried about the cake. She'd only eaten the bottom half of the chocolate riches she'd been given - so, if it WAS posioned, hopefully at least she'd only gotten half! ha. Who would have ever thought she would sit down with that fellow employee/rival and share in her birthday cake. She'd only done it to be nice, but she didn't trust as much her companion's motives...

She had a thousand things to say when the boss called, but of course she didn't say any of them. She just thanked the boss for relaying a message to her and welcomed her back. All she hoped was that maybe the hard work she'd had put in would show and would make the boss's life a little easier somehow.
*
To tell you the truth, I think our first meeting was Grandview." Jill smiled to the handsome artsy lanking fella. "That's when you passed your business card through the driver's side window to me, but Bee, the intended go-between, managed to just keep it. I thought she must have a friend that liked you and I resented the entire carpool."

She remembered that he'd made her laugh on course that day. She was just a specatator/cheerleader that day, and was actually impressed to watch the photographer catch a loose horse, the first human it encountered after a rider fall.

He clearly didn't remember meeting her back then.

Would she become more special to him? To anyone? Jill remained single, yet optimistic.
*

Her bay retired-riding project peed outside, just as she approached the paddock, which she'd never seen him do before. And which she was worried was a sign he was staying out overnight - the surest way to teach them to go ahead and do such a thing! They were paying indoor boad for both horses. She felt a bit better about the paddock walking now that she remembered about his stall walking. He ate better when she rode too, she would make sure they went out on adventures at least a few times on the weekend. She also wanted to practice riding more with her seat.

*

Jill thought the grass in the paddocks did not look all that great, and neither did the horse! She spoke to the barn owner about his weight, and she said she'd make sure he got more food.

She rode for 35 min in the grass ring in the snaffle. He warmed up great, even when they went all the way around the outside... he had the glorious canter, and, she didn't even have spurs on. She worked canter halt, halt canter and then to keep him keen she jumped a few jumps and went back to the transitions. Sometimes he would root and pull so hard she could not Sit Up and she got mad at her own lack of stregnth, and looked forward to working him in the "big" bit the next day.

Twas lovely to just hose him down and toss him out afterwards. They BOTH liked it.

One of her young friends agreed to take action on his thrush action before Jill could get there. They were going cross country schooling and Tessa said she'd groom! whoo hoo.