This morning at the barn we had a bit of excitement! I let Wanda & Dublin out in to their field, forgetting I had pinned open a gate on the other side of the paddock because the manure pile is there and they hadn’t been allowed out because of the rain these past couple days. So, with Wanda leading, the two went trotting down the gravel driveway towards the house and towards the neighborhood. When I noticed it, I BOOKED it across the field parallel to them on the lane, throwing off my jacket in the process (it was slowing me down!) and intercepted them before the lane opened up to our backyard. Waving my hands in the windmill motion, I deterred them both and then turned back towards the barn. Thinking all had been saved, I shut the gate to the lane and proceeded towards the barn to grab some halters so I could corral them back in to the field. As I turned from the gate, Wanda trotted past me and jumped over the 4 foot gate and back towards the lane. I think I muttered something like “you have GOT to be kidding me”. Luckily Dublin’s lameness prevented him from making the leap after her, and she missed him too much to continue on, so she turned back and I opened the gate for her. Of course she went trotting right in to the open field, and Dublin stood in the driveway paddock trying to point his back legs at me for about 10 minutes until I gave him the stink eye. This all happened before 8am and I still made it to work on time 🙂