Blind Cash turned two years old on Saturday, and as you can see, we had a beautiful weekend to celebrate his 2nd birthday. I took the photo this afternoon, and Alayne came out to present the youngster for the camera. (Yes, longtime blog readers, please note Mrs. Babushka makes another appearance!)
By the time Cash turned one, we had started calling him "Mr. Full-of-Himself." Then we found out last year that the folks who have Cash's sister back in Alabama had taken to calling her "It's-All-About-Me" … so we knew it had to run in the bloodlines. (She's not blind.)
Make no mistake, Cash may be a handsome boy but he is definitely at that "punk" stage — always trying to see what he can get away with, pestering his friend blind Nikki (three years his senior) until she finally lets him have it, and generally annoying our queen bee, blind Lena.
It was Lena's job to teach this born-blind colt some manners after he arrived here at the age of 4 weeks. There are days we look at Cash and his misbehavin' antics and we say to Lena, "Honey, this one got away from you somehow, didn't he?" Lena kind of feels like we made her into a boarding school headmistress who's always expected to turn unruly children into well-behaved, model students. She doesn't think this is fair since she didn't sign up for the job in the first place and we don't give her enough hay to make it worth her while anyway.
Lena still sees potential in him — "he's just not applying himself," she says — and so do we. Some day he's going to be a fine young horse. But for now, he's two … and t-r-o-u-b-l-e.
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