plotting

One advantage to living indoors is the ability to afford the time and resources to plot.  I must say that I have been rubbing my little hands together in an evil manner devilishly plotting ways to desensitize my horses.  Today was the day they got to eat their dinner off of a plastic tarp.  Well actually they were fed their lunch off the blue tarp too but only one of the horses ate from it- and it wasn't a mustang.  It was Breezy my sweet little Arabian who generally is bullied out of her meals by the "bulldogs" of the corral.  But by the end of the day everyone in the corral had stepped onto the tarp to eat.  A Success!  What shall I do tomorrow???  Last week I created a "bridge" out of a sheet of plywood that everyone must cross at least twice a day to come in and out of the corral.  Sparrow was the first to forge that path.  Maybe tomorrow I will tie some plastic bags to the fence posts.  If only I could have a train pass through the corral repeatedly then a semi-truck, then a hot air balloon, and then an unannounced bicyclist (those are really scary!).  The truth of the matter is that you can't really be ready for everything.  Even if you are a horse or the most experienced human alive (I don't know if that really exists) with all the resources at hand.  You just have to go out into the world and be alive.   You have to shake and tremble and sweat and lose your gumption and fail and then fail again and then try again and then "fail better".  All with the hope that you'll have a wide shoulder to travel on, cry on, and eat your lunch on as the traffic whizzes by.