Yesterday we had the biggest blizzard to hit us in a couple of years. I went out yesterday to feed the horses and got this picture of them standing outside the barn. Today is a snow day and I'm sure we will be spending it outside removing snow. Thankfully it isn't too terribly cold out there...it's just 35mph winds we are dealing with...
I was at home last night watching Tv with the hubby. When this
Ralph Lauren commercial came on. (this is a longer way drawn out version posted
but the same parts are in the commercial).
We had to rewind it a few times to see if it was really as
horrifying as I originally had thought. First off, that woman is riding with a
dress on… basically riding bareback with no pants on…yuck! Yes it looks beautiful
and flowy and romatic. But all I can think of is that one time a friend and I
were camping with our horses and we rode down to the river to bath both
ourselves and our horses. We rode bareback in our bikinis and it was not a pleasant
experience. And have you ever tried to get back onto a wet horse bareback?
Basically the fact that we just took a bath in the river was completely tossed
out the window by the fact we hopped back on wet horses to get back to our tent…gross.
I still can’t even believe I was talked into that scenario. It was a beer
fueled weekend to say the least.
What about the part where they are cantering away holding
hands. Awww adorable….never gonna happen in real life with me. First off I get
all panicky when I ride next to someone because thanks to Yellow I have a fear
they are going to kick the horse next to me. That’s how we got kicked off the
equestrian drill team he kept kicking at the other horses as they came up next
to him. Also I had another horse kick me and almost break my ankle when riding
that close…sooo yeah. I’ve also never been on two horses that can just canter
along happily next to each other. It ALWAYS ends up being a race. Sometimes it’s
the horses idea, but usually it’s my riding companions idea.
What do they keep staring at off in the distance? Eyes forward
you fools!! You never know what dangers could be ahead of you! You could be
thrown and whennot wearing a helmet, or
boots, or pants for that matter you could be pretty messed up afterwards…
And near the end when he’s got his arm around her neck as
they are smooching and cantering away…what the heck is is trying to do to that
woman? Kill her? Uffda. Seriously, I would not be giggling and smiling if that
was ever attempted. More like screams of horror with the feeling that someone is
trying to pull me off my horse. I get that they are probably better horse
people than me but seriously.
Non horse people have such a skewed perception of what
really goes on. Yeah the commercial is romatical and beautiful and blah blah
blah. But seriously I am such a worrier around horses that this commercial
really freaked me out.
