Days

One of those interesting days today. To start with the hired hand doesn't show up for work. Still don't know what the situation is. I could walk over and knock on the door and ask but I figure he could let me know if there is a problem instead of me hunting him up. Common courtesy type thing if you ask me. Him not being there kind of put a hole in what I had scheduled today. I was going to try to get the rest of the pairs out to the hills but without help I knew that wasn't happening.<br />n<br />nSo I head on over to get started and when I get to the other place, there are half my horses where they belong, and half in another pasture beside them. This was really confusing to me. I start hunting around and find a brace post broke and a gate hanging about half way down. I study the tracks for awhile and figure out the horses came running down to the gate thinking it was open and when they discovered it was shut they jumped over it. The damn gate hasn't been open for months, why did they do this?<br />n<br />nI get the horses all in and look the jumpers over and I found some very small punctures and scrapes low on their legs but no major damage to any of them. Later in the day I noticed one of them favoring a leg a little but I can't spot a problem with it. I will keep an eye on the situation and see. Patched the fence up for now. I will have to get to it and fix it shortly but the patch is as good as some peoples new gates so I figure it will do.<br />n<br />nI went ahead and rode and got a bunch of the pairs out to the hills. Not all like I wanted to, but quite a chunk of them. I will have to try to finish in a day or two. The horses jumping the fence like that really made it a head scratching kind of day. What would posses them to do that? Sometimes it would be nice to figure these things out.