thursday come and gone

Today of course is my Friday........and just in time as always.

I made my way to the barn this morning and really could not determine how or what or why on the weather at hand. I mulled it over and then decided to take blankets off for the day......then fed everyone hay and grain. The dieting arrangement is not going over well with the big boys.....they are anxious and persistant about getting MORE than they GOT. Too bad...the weather is not that cold and they have several good layers of fat.

The chickens are growing.......no more heat lamp, they are now in the coop with the big birds....except for the adopted banty's little ones..........she is taking them all over the farm and teaching them to dig for bugs and how to sunbathe. At night she carefully takes them into the barn and into a dog crate that I have bedded with hay. I close them in for their safety at night.
There is some animal in the barn who is coming in and going through the beet pulp bucket......throwing it here and there.....not really eating it. I hope it is not a possum.

Tomorrow, I take Sully to the Jones Farm......he he he....he has NO idea...but I imagine when we unload at the Jones Farm he will go...........he will say HOLY crap...it is the Jones Farm where I was castrated and saddled........! I am anxious to see how he does.......fingers crossed.

I will also see Winston tomorrow.........it has been a couple of weeks. I hear he is being a good boy and learning quickly.

Tarbaby is no better today with his feet and so I may try to have him examined as well tomorrow.....he is on bute and foot soaks.......he might need some sand in his paddock.
he and Mercy are fast friends......eat together, nap together......she screams at him and he bares his teeth at her and then they just eat and forget about it. Mares.........drama..........poor geldings.

I am sitting here at my computer and occasionally glancing out my window at my koi pond. The pond is about 14 x 14....landscaped and about three to three and half feet deep. Imagine my surprise to see Mr. and Mrs. Mallard in the pond........uprooting plants and splashing around. Yeah, I know.......a pond is a pond is a pond when you are a mallard.......but approximately 500 feet to the north is a very LARGE duck pond.......and I simply do not see the draw to the koi pond other than it is private and possibly romantic for two ducks in love. I went out there and they didn't care.........they never flew off. Where is the labrador when you need her?

Well..........I am tired and ready to go to bed......up early tomorrow.....probably a long day.

Pony Up fortune for tomorrow:

Break the chain........break the bank.