[ "Strike".]
Subtitle: "The Ranch".
Chapter 1. (The birth of "Strike"--the stallion)
I had been out at the ranch for three days helping foal the mares, and riding-the-perimeter fence: Sleeping-out on the prairie for two of them. With the barest of supplies: A wool blanket, a canteen of water, jerky; and oats for Strike, my spirited piebald stallion--a container of cool lemon wipes, a large jar of Vaseline, and the necessary ropes, of course!
I love Strike. I helped birth him, staying up for over 30 hours straight; seeing his mare through her hard delivery: Washing her down periodically with warm water through the length of her ordeal. She neither ate not took drink the whole time, and I laid with her in the hay, when it was uncertain she would make it through the night, into the next day.
In the early hours of the morn, she let me know, that it was time. I pulled with all my might on his hooves and finally, exhaustingly, he entered the world.
Within the hour, mare and foal, were up on their feet. Strike wobbling precariously on four too-long spindly legs, set at tripod angles to one-another. I collapsed there in the hay and slept like there was no tomorrow, stirred by mare and colt licking and nudging me into consciousness.
That's when It all began, the bond between Strike and I, I mean, for whereas the mare, snorted at my ears to awaken me, her newly born, was nuzzling at my fanny!
Chapter 2. (Virginia takes a shit in the prairie.)
I don't wear panties on the farm, and love the freedom, and coolness, of a loose denim skirt, just in case I have to go potty out in the chaparral with the cowboys around. It is relatively easy to pretend to be squatting down, picking a desert flower, or inspecting a budding cactus bloom, letting my stiff denim skirt bell out around me, touching the scorched earth with its hem, and just go pee-pee, or drop a load, right there under me, if the urge insists.
No one knows, or suspects, I think, and I always choose a spot on the ground to squat over, that has a sizable stone, or dead clump of wood, there, so that my log doesn't stand out on the flat bare surface of the land, and if I linger there for just half a minute, even, the parched earth sucks-up the torrent of my pee-pee, leaving the barest stain of dampness. When I rise my droppings are virtually undetectable, even from a distance of a few feet only, or from the saddle of a horse--assuming the wind is blowing in the right direction, that is.
Chapter 3. (Virginia is interrupted while dropping a log, and pisses in her cowgirl boots.)
I almost got caught, on one occasion, when the charge-hand came up quietly behind me. I had been caught short, out on the prairie, after a large breakfast, and more coffee than I apparently needed.
I was squatting there, playing with a cactus bloom, when I heard something behind me. My log was hanging out of my pooh-hole about 6 inches, and I felt, that wasn't the half of it! I had woken-up famished that morning and wolfed-down, double helpings of grits, and bacon and eggs, and beans and biscuits, washed down with three large mugs of hot, black coffee!
I flushed scarlet, on the thought that he had heard me grunting, for my log had to be over four inches in diameter, and my ass-hole was being stretched to the max, through the slow delivery.
I was stuck, there, and didn't know what to do.
The Charge-hand said, cordially, "What you up to down there missy?"
I answered back meekly, "Oh, just admiring the lovely desert blooms. I just love it when the cactus flowers, don't you?"
"Oy' can't rightly say, missy, I don't ken to such--observations--niv'r have, an' I guess, niv'r will."
I feigned interest, by saying, "Oh--?"
I was trying desperately To suck the monster back up into the dark, mysterious hole, from whence it had just insistently emerged, by a sort of reverse sphincter muscle action, but it was too big, and rough, to even consider returning to its hot, fuming cave. No, it wanted out! And that was that.
"Well, missy, are you gonna' stay down there all day long, we gots cattle to move, an' they aint' gonna' git' herded playing with no desert flowers, that's fir sure. Do ya' need a hand down there getting back into yo' saddle missy?"
I screeched, "No!"
Then regained my composure, and added in a calm guilty voice,
"No-no thank you. I can manage very well, but thank you for the offer."
Piss had been driveling out of my vulva all the time that I had been talking to the charge-hand, and it was all I could do to restrict its flow to a minimum, from the usual gushing torrent, that would have undoubtedly have been heard.
I arose slowly, and the piss ran down the insides of my thighs, down my legs and began to fill my boots.
I walked gingerly over to my horse, with about 8 inches of log hanging out of my bung hole now.
I said, "You go ahead, I'll catch you up in a minute."