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since it was so warm, when we came to some water I dropped my handy-dandy
sponge on a string in the water -downstream- of Tony to sponge him off, no
problem.
Later on in the trail, more water, drop sponge in again (on the upstream
side this time - it was here that I made the connection) and we are
transported a few feet downstream as Tony tries to get away from the sponge
that is after him and attached to me who is on top of him. Yikes - do I drop
sponge and risk losing it and then have to get off in the water to try to
get it or hang on and end up in the water with my precious sponge? These
decisions can be hard to make - good sponges are like, well, you can get
attached to them - hard to just give them up like that. In the end I opted
to drop the sponge in the interest of safety - by now Tony had turned so
that the string was gonna go around his leg. Why didn't I just pick it up
out of the water, you ask? cause seeing the monster come up out of the water
was worse than seeing it IN the water and he for sure wasn't gonna let me
pick it up and bring it in to my (or his) body. at any rate, I dropped it,
got off and retrieved it and only got one wet foot in the process. So -
sponge saved and lesson learned.
Ahhh, the things we sometimes take for granted - maybe I should set up a
trough in the ring and practice this :-)
Tina - who won't be doing any sponge slinging for a while
Tony - endurance horse in training - so I have a few details that need some work
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