Too Hot to Trot (type)

Summer here really hasn't been too hot, until the last couple of weeks. Shoeing has been busy and I haven't taken the time to post this month. I'd like to keep a flow going so thought I would post something on this last day of July. So I figured it could be about working in the heat.
I feel fortunate that all the places I've lived and shod horses have been in dry climates. Shade works wonders while working on a hot day. Shade from trees, horse trailers, houses, barns, and quite frankly even the horse itself definitely makes things a "shade" cooler here in the West. Yep, I have been known to ask the horse holder to move the horse around so the side I am working on is in the shade! Often times I turn down the offer to go inside a three-sided shed to get away from the sun. If there is no circulation it can feel hotter than outside under the sun where maybe you can feel the slightest breeze.
I remember some clients I had that also showed beef cattle at the local fair and the steers would be in an enclosed stall with cooler fans going and I would be out in the hot corral shoeing!!
I love the clients that offer me a cold drink!
I've learned not to compoain when it's hot. I always say that "if it isn't too hot, it's too cold, and if it isn't too cold the bugs are out, and if the bugs aren't out and it's not too cold, the horses are shedding hair all over me. And if none of the above are true it must be fall and that is the best season, so why complain."
gotta love shoe'n!!