This week's quote from Will Rogers: "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." makes me think of a time when I got run over.

My horses ran over me once -- of course it was my fault. I was desensitizing them to an umbrella. They were all at one end of their small outdoor pen and I was about eight feet away from them, opening and closing an umbrella. Of the four horses, I knew one (Ollie) was not afraid of umbrellas, and one (Echo) was terrified of umbrellas. The other two horses were a semi-afraid. But I though that if I slowly opened and closed the umbrella -- not too close to them -- they would get used to it.

WRONG.

I'd opened and closed the umbrella a couple times, and carefully observed the horses' reactions - high heads and a bit of snorting. And the next thing I knew -the horses were rushing by -- and I was flat on my back in the mud (of course it had been raining! That's what gave me the idea to work with umbrellas) -- still holding the umbrella which was now flat on the ground above my head. Yes, it was covered in mud must like me.

I was so lucky that I didn't get stepped on!

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