April 6, 2004
We were given the clearance by the surgeon to ride a month or so ago, but then had Doc's
feet trimmed and he got very tender. So this Friday we will be having shoes put on our big boy.
Tonight when I went out to give the horses their last feeding for the day, Harley (the alpha) and Doc
were on the rocks...this is a very very steep slope...it was graded to be off limits for the horses and we
put big rocks all over it to discourage them from climbing on it. Doc has an appetite to rival any large
mammal's appetite, though. I guess I didn't bring dinner out soon enough and those little grassy plants
poking up between the rocks were just too irresistible for he and Harley to...well...resist!
Harley pranced down quickly when he saw me coming with dinner, but Doc isn't quite so nimble. Turning his massive
body around on that incline and heading straight down ...at least 45 degrees (!) isn't easy for him! Besides, the grass
and weeds were tasty, I suppose. So I snapped some pictures on the digital camera before he came down.
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