Closing the barn doors on meadow muffins

Today, a departure from the normal entries.

Warning: This won't be polite, mundane and might even be unpleasant for some readers.

For the scum sucking snarkosauruses' who read here looking for dirt-go digging somewhere else. There are plenty of other targets you can surely back stab, lie about, conspire against, and relish hurting. There are more suckers you can bedazzle with bs into genuflecting at your tarnished throne, than there are people who can think for themselves. Barnum was right: There is a sucker born every minute. You have a good nose for finding them.

I've had it with the pettiness and outright viciousness and the put downs, attacks, slams and the lying. Is this how your mother raised you? Really? Is this how you treat people you do not even know? Feel pretty safe posting carp on CL, don't you? And oh so smart by using cutout email addies to send those hurtful emails too. Must be easy to focus on, I am such a big threat to you all. Right? Well, get over yourselves, all of you. I don't care what you think or say, I don't care what you post, and I don't care what you email. Talk between yourselves as much as you like, and keep feeding each others' paranoia.

Get a grip, you losers. I don't give a rats' about your business, your animals, or your lives and don't care to know about them either. I am plenty busy tending to real life, I don't need to delve into high school drama for entertainment. That's your venue, not mine.

For all of you who read the recent court documents (and you know who you are) I call you out as cowards, each and every one of you-for not having the courage to even pick up the phone and talk to me about it. Believed it all, didn't you? Or did you just "tsk tsk" and whisper between buddies and were just thankful it wasn't you? Whichever, your choice to whether or not to buy into fiction or hear the truth. But it sure shows your true colors, now doesn't it?

Just like there is no room for honesty in politics, there is no room for honesty in our pitiful excuse for a horse community. I am sick and tired of seeing people (not just myself)eviscerated publicly while the perpetrators get a free pass on their behavior by everyone else. And for those of you who just stood by in shock-thinking, oh geeze, not again-well shame on you for not helping to stamp out these behaviors. Every single one of us horse people know the "three second" rule when it comes to handling a 1000 pounds of unruly horse, yet none can seem to apply it to real life when it is most needed.

Your silence equals approval, even if you don't realize it.

So I am done. Just done. You win. The bullies have won the day, yippee skippy and all that. Rejoice, celebrate, whatever, I don't care.

Boarding was never a money maker and I seldom even made enough to pay the barn help-it always came out of my own pocket. So I am done with that, since the rest of you have oh so much better facilties and oh so much more experience and so on and so forth. I took a little pride in feeding a superior quality diet to the horses in my care, and am happy to say that each horse that left my care looked marvelous. It's some comfort, anyway.

Breeding? HA! What breeding? There is no breeding going on, never has been, not for me. Nope, I insisted on pre breeding exams, cultures, and a well conformed mare. Darn me for caring about the horses involved, instead of the greenbacks that empty uterous meant. So I may give it one more season and then that's it, done with that too.

The hay? Well, I think I will scale that back. When I have local hay producers backstabbing the hay I bring up (to sell more of their own carp, I presume?) well enough is enough. The regular customers I have are delighted to have this premium hay at a price they can live with.....I just won't bother promoting it much any longer. Whats the point? To be publicly labeled "nasty small time hay importer" by the local hag?

So that's it. I am taking a page from our former Governor, and quitting.

Y'all have fun now, ya hear?