[Today’s run: still no running]
My head cold is getting a bit better. I am transitioning from the eye-weeping phase to the coughing-up-gobs phase. I think I should be in great shape in a couple more days.
The old horse was eating grass in our back yard this morning. Yep, this is the one that I walked around to the gate yesterday. He looks boney and kind of worn.
I went out and brushed him, put out some water. Then I called the neighbor and he was going to call the horse owner to come and see. According to the neighbor this horse is 34 years old. That is an _old_ horse! He moves around pretty good, considering.
I did walk over to the field and poked around a little bit to try to find where he is getting out. No clue. I doubt very much he can jump the fence where it is a bit low, it is still at least two feet high and I don’t think his feet get higher than six inches unless he were to step near a snake or something. I did not find any clear openings at all.
I have not looked outside in an hour or so, I suspect he is still out there. He was really chowing down on the grass near the dog-run where it grows high.
Update: Still out there, he wandered to the west of us, to a grassy area on the other side of our west neighbor, even farther from his home field. No sign of the horse owner yet.
Update#2: The horse owner has come, fixed the fence, and gone off leading the horse from the cab of his pickup truck. And now I have his phone number.