The perfect day? What is it and why is it so dam perfect?
The tail end of the winter has been rough out here. Spreader apron breaks, tractor fuel injectors having problems, Devin in Florida for two and a half weeks, trying to keep the horses in condition while she was gone, cancer showing it's ugly head to one of our own and then a dumping of snow that shut everything down. All I could do was make the coffee stronger and stronger and make sure Skoel stayed in business.
Then Mike text me about ice fishing last Sat. What the hell, I thought, there is stuff to do and to piss of a sat morning? At first I went because I didn't want to let my friends down, I had blown them off once already this winter and that Kris and Devin would be mad as hell if I didn't go. What I didn't know was it would be the beginning of the perfect day....
I got up last Sat morning like I always do, coffee, skoal and feeding horses. Then I went into the tool room of the barn and dusted off my ice fishing stuff. Through the gear into the pickup, tossed the pickup sideways in the snow as I pulled away from the barn. When I pulled into Mikes I saw three of the coolest buds a good o'l boy could have. We laughed, joked about things I won't repeat, but dam it was funny. As I sat amongst the ice and bullshit I thought to myself. "Man I love this."
By three thirty I was pulling back into the barn driveway. Devin was bringing in horses, her Florida sun burn and all. I helped her finish up with chores, then it was back to work with the horses. While Devin was gone I was able to keep up on the conditioning of the show horses, but with the other stuff going on I was ready for help. After we got everyone worked, Devin suggested we ride. She got out her horse Mears and I grabbed buddy the 18 year old Arab gelding. What a ton of fun!! after a while we switched horses. Devin started pushing Buddy a little and I mentioned what I liked about him. Devin replied "yea that's what you said the first time you saw him." My replie was, "hu I must know a thing or two about horses." As I sat in that arena on top of Mears twisting and turning in the Saddle following as Devin and Buddy galloped around us. I said "Man I love this."
We got chores done and I made my way inside, unloaded my pockets of wallet, skoal, ph, and a hoof pick. Flipped on the T.V., found the fox network in time to see the warm up laps of the Bud Shootout the first NASCAR race of the season. See I told you it was a perfect day. I mad a frozen pizza and devoured the whole thing. As I sat down I thought "Man I love this." Granted I fell a sleep under a blanket on the couch before the race was over.
What a way to end the perfect day with the sounds of those healthy V8 engines roaring through the Daytona Florida night air.
