Remember the blue tarp cowboy curtain?
I thought I was so smart to use that old tarp. Those trees out in our north small pasture were just about the perfect distance apart, too. It was a great training tool.
Well, Mother Nature decided to have the last laugh. What I hadn’t taken into consideration was that the location is not protected from the wind. In the days after hanging the tarp, the wind started blowing and the tarp started unraveling. Before too long, the ground downwind was covered with blue threads of plastic about 8 inches long. One day as I walked out there to admire the contrast between the threads and the green grass, I thought, “I probably should pick those up.” But I didn’t.
I wasn’t motivated to go out and pick up those threads until I cleaned out Izzy’s stall one day. Guess what I found? Blue threads in one of the piles she had dropped in the stall.
“Great!”
I could just imagine the conversation with the vet. “Izzy is acting colicky. I’m not sure why except I did find pieces of blue tarp in the poop piles in her stall.” Memories of our adventure last summer with choking and the trip to ISU were all the motivation needed to go out and gather up a small bucket full of blue plastic threads. The cowboy curtain came down the same night.
So here’s a hint from Sheloise regarding using an old tarp to make a cowboy curtain–use duct tape, the handyman’s friend, and tape those raw edges so your cowboy curtain won’t be ‘Gone with the Wind’.
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