Relaxing with the family...

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Summer sun was set about high noon and it was the hotest part of the day. The wind isn't blowing and it felt really sticky out side. Clayton walked out the black stallion out of the stall and walked him into the isle and cliped him onto the cross-ties. He already had bullets of sweat coming down his face. He took off his cowboy hat and grabed his rag and wipped his forehead. He hadn't even began to work, but it didn't matter these days are the ones he hated. It was just so hot that it could kill you. Clayton patted his black stallion Monte."Hey Monte boy, ready to get you feet worked on and maybe if it cools down maybe we can let you out."Clayton smiled and patted the black stallions shoulder.

Clayton walked out to his truck that was parked closed the barn and grabbed his farrier box and walked back in and saw Monte in there tossing his head."You silly boy. You act like a child.'He smiled at him and patted his right shoulder and grabbed the hoof and began work on his hoof. It wasn't to long, but he needed new shoes on so he had to get them on. Clayton wasn't even finished trimming up when he was getting tired so he stopped and stood up and grabbed his back."Monte you gonna make me so much older I'm gonna have me wheeled around in a chair." He laughed and looked around and went back to work.

[alia]

She yawned and stretched out Clayton had gone to the barn a little over an hour ago when she had first laid down for her nap, she sat up and walked to the bathroom and brushed threw her hair before adjusting her shirt. For eight months she was not big by any means, she was small. Walking out of the bedroom and down the stairs she slipped her boots on and grabbed her cowboy hat. Hopping into her car, she drove to the stable and parked next to his truck. She got out shutting and locking the car she walked inside and saw the black horses and none other than the face of her husband. She watched as he grabbed his back and she shook her head he was going to be crippled before they even thought about a second child. She sighed and walked up to Monte patting the horses hip, brought you some lemonade. She spoke and offered him a water bottle before heading off to see Thunder. The chocolate palomino was special to her, carried her to a lot of wins and they were still going strong.

He whickered softly to her as she opened the stall door, he nosed her stomach and then her pockets looking for his treat, she fixed his snow white forelock and then reached into her back pocket and offered him the cookie, yes he was a weird horse and ate some human food. Anyway she broke the cookie in half and offered him the first half. He crunched happily on the part of the cookie slobber coming down the sides of his mouth, she laughed and gave him the rest when he was finished with the first half. A few more months boy she spoke and rubbed his blaze on his face, she looked at his feet. Looks like Claytons going to have to trim those up, she kicked the toe of his hoof to get her point across he just bobbed his head and then shook it. Goof what on earth are we going to do with you?

She pushed his head back in the stall and shut it going back to Clayton and standing by Montes head, what am I going to do with you too? She asked, if you get crippled and old well you wont be any good to me. She laughed and then smiled, but I think you still got years ahead of you. She stroked Montes face and played with his ears, such a good boy she spoke and kissed the tip of his nose, if your daddy would stand up I could give him some love to. She laughed and waited.

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Clayton finished one hoof and looked up to see the tree's not move. He sighed and shook his head it was the heat that got the best of him. If he could he would love to live in a place where it was fall all the time. That was his favorite season of all time since Thanksgiving was all in the fall and same with Halloween. Those was the best holiday's since their was either food or laughters. Clayton padded the black stud's head and smiled." We are getting old boy. This heat is going to kill us before old age gets here"He laughed and took his hat off and whipped the sweat off his brow with his arm. He was wearing a long sleeve shirt, so you could feel his pain, but that is how he was taught. You never caught him wearing shorts, sandles, and no shirt. He would always wear his boots, jeans, cowboy hat, and long sleeve shirts. Thats what made him him.

Clayton was about to start working on the right back hoof,but Alia walked in and he stood up and walked over and grabed the drink of the lemonade."Thank you Sweetie." He stood there watching her. She wasn't very big for being only eight months and if you never meet her before you probley didn't know how small she was before the round tummy was there. Which just made her wonderful. Clayton smiled and looked at her tummy. He was ready to be a father and really couldn't wait to see if he would have a son or a daughter. If he had a daughter that girl would be wrapped around his finger. Just the same as if he had a son. He would probley be alittle bit more wrapped around his finger. Since his son would carry his name for a long time until he dies. Clayton knows that his childern will have horse blood in them, so he wouldn't hardly have to teach them anything.

Clayton set his drink down and went to Monte's back end and took off his shoe and began to trim away the hoof wall. He grabbed the rasp from the farrier box and rasped away and then checked the hoof to make sure it looked right. He turned his head to looked at Alia and laughed." Your very funny Alia... I hope you would take care of me." He laughed and set the hoof down and walked over to her and grabed her and reached down to give her a kiss, but instead he whipped the sweat off his brow all over her. He laughed at stepped back because he knew he was gonna get slapped for it so he flinched alittle."You know you love me." He said and walked up to her and watched her."I promise no games...Just one little kiss please." He smiled and gave her his serious face and reached down and kissed her apon the lips. Monte on the other head nudged at Clayton for him kissing Alia and stomped a hoof." Ahh...settle down old man." He wrapped Alia in a hug and held onto her.

[alia]

She smiled, dear you only know I kid I would care for you no matter what. She watched him as he worked on Montes foot. That was till he set it down and walked over to her, he grabbed her and it looked like he was going to kiss her but then he whipped his sweat all over her. She stepped back and glared at him, that is gross Clayton. She huffed and looked at him I may love you but at the moment I don’t have to. He kissed her this time and then hugged her but she broke free of his grip and walked off, she would get him back. Just wait and see, she went back to Thunders stall and watched as Clayton started to work, opening the stall door and looking at Thunders bucket of water, which was dirty with hay and other things, she scratched under his chin. Lets get you some exercise. It was only going to be a free lounge and not for long.

She clipped the lead line onto his halter and then tied it around his neck and pushed the stall door open, she had her ways with this horse, Thunder had seen what Clayton had done and without a command up to Clayton and gave him a rough shove as he was standing, Thunder that was not nice but thank you for making my day and now we are even. She clucked to the stallion and started walking again turning around and blew Clayton a kiss. Into the arena they went and she untied and unclipped the lead line, the stallion picked his direction and started his circle she stood in the center and watched. Asking him to jog she watched the gait closely noting the stallion was off on his left front. Whoa Thunder she spoke and walked over to him.

Those who had said a pregnant lady could not bend over were wrong. Her hand slid down from his shoulder to his pastern were she squeezed and he gave allowing her to see his hoof. She shook produced a hoof pick from her pocket and cleaned out the hoof or what had gathered so far. There was some flinching and so she squeezed along his hoof and found the sore spot when out of the blue the horse jerked it away from her and she stepped back as he slammed it down he wheeled off and she sighed, well you big baby it cant be that bad. He tossed his head and she clucked and he slowed instantly and covered the whole arena, she sighed and then kissed and watched the stallion lope off nice and steady. She didn’t want to work him to long at this pace.

So she said whoa and he tucked his hind under and slid to a stop, and then backed spinning around to face his owner, she shook her head and rested her hand on her stomach, well you were not supposed to quite do that but we will go with it good job Thunder. She chuckled and he walked over, she dusted his rump off and led him back down the aisle and to the wash rack, were she sprayed him down and washed him up, he was begin to doze when she flashed the hose at his face he shied and snorted, well don’t fall asleep on me than. She shrugged and dried him off, Clayton you should trim up Thunder I think hes got a bruise on his front left. She spoke walking down with the stallion they stopped behind Monte and she clipped him in the cross ties and looked at him and waited.

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Clayton smiled at her at her and then hugged her."I know sweetie." He looked at her with that smile still on his face, but then it fadded away when she got angry at him. Clayton watched her leave him there standing." Now you know I was playing with you." He looked at her and watched her walk to Thunders stall as he turned around to put a shoe on Montes back hoof, before starting on the left side of monte's. Clayton finished nailing in the last shoe on monte hoof when he set it down he saw Alia walk out with Thunder beside her. Clayton smile and grabbed his box and went to the left side of monte to start working when he felt a big shove. Clayton caught himself before he fell down and looked at Thunder and Alia with a sore face." Yall two watch what your doing."He looked at her and then went back to work.

Clayton went ahead and started to work on Monte's hoofs. First he took the nails out of his hoof, pulled the shoe off and began to trim up his hoof way. He rasped away to make it alot smoother. He set the hoof down and went to work on a shoe before putting it on Montes hoof. Clayton picked of his front right hoof and fitted the shoe on and nailed it on. Clayton cliped the nail and smoothed it down so it wouldn't be in the way of anything. Clayton began to work on montes front hoof and did what he did on the front. Once he finished he looked at his work and smiled." Looking good old boy" He told him adn rubbed Monte's face and kissed his forehead. He unclipped the cross-ties to Montes Halter and grabbed his lead and walked him out of the stall and into the sun shine. He walked him down to a small paddock. There was many horse's that lived here at this barn, but only seen a couple western horse's. Clayton smiled and opened the gate and watched Monte rush out of to the paddock and buck and play.'There you go old boy" He placed the lead by the gate and walked back up to the barn.

Clayton was about to put his tools up when he heard Alia tell him he needed to work on Thunder's feet. He grabbed his box and walked over to them. Clayton grabbed his hoof pick out od the box and grabbed his hoof and began to work. He looked at his left hoof first since it was soar."Easy buddy"and carefully picked away the dirt that was in hoof and used his hand to grab it and pulled it out and looked at the bruise on his hoof."Looks like he might have just stepped on a rock. Has been out in a paddock or anything?" Clayton looked up at her and carefully trimmed up his hoof and rasped away it smooth. He worked on the rest of his feet and made sure that he did it right and looked good. Clayton stood up once he finished his job and looked at Alia."Now may I have my kiss please?" He looked at her and smiled and walked up to her and wrapped his arms around her and before she said something he bent down and kissed her.Clayton smiled and began to pick up his tools and place them in his box. He closed it up and looked at her and grabbed his lemonade and finished it off and watch her and thunder.

[alia]

Alia had never had Thunder shoed his feet were strong and hardy and she never saw the need to. She watched as he worked on the horses hooves with easy, Thunder was being surprisingly good for it too. He was out in the pasture yesterday that and getting undivided attention from little kids. She shrugged and watched him as he stood, she nodded but before she could get the words out he was kissing her. She kissed him back and then let him clean up his tools, she unclipped the stallion and brought him down to his stall and let him meander in. She played with his upper lip and wiggled it when she took her hand away he would crinkle his nose up at her. Alia patted his neck and grabbed his lip and wiggled it at the same time as she moved her hand to grab his forelock and pulled it over his left eye. She wanted to ride him so bad, she sighed and rested a hand on her stomach.

She walked out and closed the stall door and walked down the aisle. Her boots clicked on the concrete, she looked at Clayton well im going to head home I will see you in a bit she spoke, walking over to him she kissed him softly and then walked out head to her car, she got in and drove out of the stables. Reaching home she pulled into the garage and walked into the house where she was greeted by Lenny, Tigger and Cinch. She laughed down boys down. She closed the door and walked over to back door and opened it letting them out into the fenced backyard. She shut the door and went into the kitchen and looked into the fridge deciding that homemade pizza seemed like a good idea. She took out the pizza crust and applied sauce and other ingredients; it was a half in half pizza. She put it in the oven and set the timer.

The dogs were whining at this point so she walked over and let them in. It was an all-out battle on who would be first and in the end it was Cinch followed closely by Tigger and Lenny. Alia sat down on the couch and flipped the tv on, she flipped threw the channels until she landed on hgtv. The dogs were running around the house and playing with each other. She sighed alright that’s enough lay down. The dogs went to the spots and laid down, at this time the baby began to kick. She rested her hand on her stomach one more month that’s all that was left, it made her smile that and it would not take much at all to get back to having that model type body. Hearing the oven beep she got up and took the pizza out and cut into it. She grabbed a piece and put it on a plate and brought it out to the living room. She put the plate on the armrest and went back to watching her show all the more ignoring the dogs and eating her pizza. Hearing Clayton come in, food is on the counter dig in whenever you want. Yawning she continued to watch the tv and waited.

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Clayton smiled at her and walked out of the barn with all his things and set them on the back of his truck. He slid it to the back of the truck and shut the tail gate and walked back inside the barn and meet Alia as she was walking back from Thunder's stall. Clayton placed his arms around her and kissed her lips lightly and smiled."Alrighty sweetie, I'll be there in alittle bit." He looked at her and then back at Thunder. He wasn't sure if he should ride Thunder with that bruise on frog." I don't think I'll ride Thunder today, but I got a couple horse's people have asked me to look at." Clayton smiled and walked her out to her car and opened the door for her. He then closed the door and walked back to the barn to get his saddle ready to work with a couple of colts.

After a couple of hours he finished working with two colts. He set his saddle back into the truck and walked into the feed room and grabed Thunder's and Monte's feed. He went to place the feed in the buckets and gave both Thunder and Monte their stable blankets on so they wouldn't get to cold. There was post to be a cold chill tonight and he didn't want them to get a cold. After feeding the horse's he went to his truck and turned it on and headed home.

Clayton turned off his truck when he got to the house and walked up the walkway and opened the door. He then was tackled by three dogs that was inside. Clayton looked at all three and gave each a pet. He looked over at Alia who was laying down and shook his head."Alrighty." He went into the kitchen and began to warm up some of the food that was on the counter and while that was warming up in the microwave he went to the frige and got a cold beer out and opened it. The timer went off on the microwave and he went into the living room and sat down in his nice lazy boy recliner and began to eat his supper."This is good."He told Alia and kept on eatting with Cinich laying right beside him and his chair. He reached down and gave cinich a good ear rubbed.