- Pajama pants and oversized rubber boots are chore clothes.
- The rubber boots live in a large pile or line by the back door or in a mudroom and it can be hard to find YOUR boots.
- If you have small enough feet, any boot is your boot. You just slide them on and shuffle out.
- If there is deep mud, you may accidentally suck a boot off. If you're not paying attention, you may already have taken the next step with your now sock-clad foot.
- They WILL fill with hay, alas.
- And so will the insides of your shirt and your pockets.
- You may also have a horse treat, dog treat, peppermint candy or old wrapper in your pockets too.
- And probably a piece of wire or a nail that you found on the ground and picked up and never got around to throwing away.
- And maybe a lip balm or spare five dollar bill or whatever else you keep in your pockets. When you need these things, you will probably accidentally pull out a bunch of hay and some other random object.
- SPILLING. COLD. WATER. IN. YOUR. BOOTS. DURING. JANUARY.
- Plowing the driveway with the tractor
- Possibly plowing a neighbors driveway if they don't have a tractor
- HOW DO I BUCKLE THIS STUPID BLANKET ON WITH GLOVES?
- HOW DO I KEEP MY HORSE FROM EATING MY GLOVES ONCE I TAKE THEM OFF TO BUCKLE THE BLANKET?
- WHY ARE THE BUCKLES SO COLD?
- Driving a big round bale of hay out through the snow to the cattle
- Sitting up in the barn on the stack of small square bales and thinking how warm and cozy they are and completely forgetting what a pain they were to stack in the heat last summer. SWEAT AND HAY ARE NOT FUN!
- DROPPING YOUR KNIFE DOWN THE HAY PILE
- Learning the secret to opening a small bale with nothing more than another piece of twine. (FRICTION!!!)
- Cuddling up with a cat and hot chocolate and watching the horses run and play in a snowy field and remember why you put up with all the horrors of winter.
-MK
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