I guess that, for me, the answer to that question depends on what's been happening lately at the barn. Has there been a run of horsey incidents? Sweat. Everything seemingly going well? Smile. With Dude, for instance, he's been rehabbing from his hip injury, and as I've had recent reports from observant boarders that he's been running in the field, I expected the worse when I got a call from barn owner Julie yesterday. Particularly as the plan was to send him out with a buddy after 4 months on solo turnout. Sweat.
But the call yesterday was to report that they had decided to switch things up, and rather than turn Dude out with a horse who had just arrived, and who he had been visiting with over the fence for a couple days, his new arrangement would be with TC and Skye, two of the most "whatever" geldings in the barn. They're not runners or blanket rippers, they're more like Dude, eat-and-stand-around-ers. So that was good news. I stopped sweating, and went back to smiling.
