This gets a little weird to write.

Don't want to publish negative things about another person, you know?  Partially because she's influential and partially because of the karmic returns on something like that.

I went to the barn after work yesterday, like normal.  I've talked to the BO previously about leaving the stall doors open during the day, so the guys can go in if they want.  She said fine, but that she would be closing the stalls at night.  Every single day since then, they've been open at night and closed during the day.  When I'm there, I open them.  This was the conversation that was immediately followed by her declaration of a raise in board.

So, I got there yesterday and the stalls are closed and Arch seems fine - drenched in sweat, which is good.  At a hundred degrees, that's how I want him.  But he's also covered in various patches of edema, which I can't understand.  Lay down in an ant's bed?  Something with his condition?  Reaction to something?  I hosed him off and set him up in his stall to eat his beet pulp and beer.  I skipped the liniment given his skin being all swollen.

When I rode on Wednesday, I noticed that the water trough was low (to the bottom third tier).  And, granted this is the worst fucking time to do such an experiment, I ran a little test.  I didn't fill it up.  I didn't touch it.

And, on Thursday, this is what I found.