I get up on Sunday and it is gray.....hmm.....I think, well it is going to rain all day, like the day before and so I drag myself around and finally get to the barn....a little late. I get to work feeding and cleaning.
Ryan calls and says the sun is out where he is......so we decide that maybe the day will not be gray after all..........Ryan drives up and we work on the arena fencing. The sun is definitely out.....it is hot actually.....all the horses are napping in the dirt while we work with the posts. We get the whole south end done..........what a lot of work but save by the fact that we had the auger on the tractor and did not have to dig by hand.
We also pulled up the old gate posts and moved the driveway gate back far enough so that we can pull the trailer and truck all the way in without having to sto in the road......and now we can put the gate opener on the gate!
Next weekend we will stretch the fence on the posts and tear down the old fencing. What a chore....but it will be so good to have it done and it will look so much better. Then of course we need to grade the arena and haul some sand in.
Did I say the work is never done? One chore is finished and another one appears. Some day.....some day.
With the dry weather we got some dryer fields and that is a good sign........it will mean dryer feet and horses who can go out in the field.
We still need to cut fence post tops off..........we have some that are different lengths.....due to me buying what I could get my hands on.....and what was available.
Long week ahead......projects and more projects........we have to find time to ride ...or begin to ride some of the rideables.....Max, Ollie.........and Promise.
Sully was worked at the Jones Farm again today and made progress. He is not being mean......or nasty..........he is just scared of something. Lots of round penning, sacking out and some confidence.......we have high hopes he will turn out just fine. He was a good boy in the trailer as always....he has good ground manners.
off to bed.....
Pony Up fortune for tomorrow:
keep your committments, you have folks counting on you.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Such a lot of Saturday
Up not so early.....I slept in a little........tired...grumpy......stiff.......hard to get going this morning.
It is a gray, cool morning.....rain is sprinkling down.......I can hear in my mind the weather forecast from earlier this week......."clear and up to 70 degrees on Saturday" and I think to myself that either I was dreaming or the weather forecast was for Palm Springs. great.....just great. I don't want to fence in the rain......I just don't.
I drink coffee, drag my sorry self around ......let the dogs out, feed the dogs......then shower and head to the barn. I am chastised by the prisoners who say I am LATE and they are hungry....in fact starving.....I take my lumps......and get to feeding. I let the chicks out........they are hungry too.
Ryan comes and we talk about fencing.........we have the auger attachment for the tractor......but I have to take Sully to Maple Valley......I didn't do it yesterday........and today I really must. I ask Ryan to come with me and we will work on a sunnier, warmer day. He agrees. So we groom Sully and load him up.....and off we go. We stop for coffee and gas.........arrive at the Jones Farm shortly after noon. Sully is stalled in the lovely barn with other horses who have blue blood pedigrees.......we don't tell him he is any different.....although I think he is the smallest horse in the barn. Big things come in little packages.
We visited and looked at horses on the farm.......laughed and talked about old times.......then we got on the road again to go home........to feed horses, put chickens to bed..........rest.
Pony Up fortune for tomorrow>>>>>>
It is not who you know but what you know.
It is a gray, cool morning.....rain is sprinkling down.......I can hear in my mind the weather forecast from earlier this week......."clear and up to 70 degrees on Saturday" and I think to myself that either I was dreaming or the weather forecast was for Palm Springs. great.....just great. I don't want to fence in the rain......I just don't.
I drink coffee, drag my sorry self around ......let the dogs out, feed the dogs......then shower and head to the barn. I am chastised by the prisoners who say I am LATE and they are hungry....in fact starving.....I take my lumps......and get to feeding. I let the chicks out........they are hungry too.
Ryan comes and we talk about fencing.........we have the auger attachment for the tractor......but I have to take Sully to Maple Valley......I didn't do it yesterday........and today I really must. I ask Ryan to come with me and we will work on a sunnier, warmer day. He agrees. So we groom Sully and load him up.....and off we go. We stop for coffee and gas.........arrive at the Jones Farm shortly after noon. Sully is stalled in the lovely barn with other horses who have blue blood pedigrees.......we don't tell him he is any different.....although I think he is the smallest horse in the barn. Big things come in little packages.
We visited and looked at horses on the farm.......laughed and talked about old times.......then we got on the road again to go home........to feed horses, put chickens to bed..........rest.
Pony Up fortune for tomorrow>>>>>>
It is not who you know but what you know.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
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.
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.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Thinking out loud Tuesday
Time ticks by.........it hardly seems like it can be Tuesday evening going on Wednesday morning....but it is and the week comes at us.
Strange weather this morning......cloudy, sprinkling rain enough to curl my obstinate hair......these are the kind of days when I just can't try to control it....call me Roseanne Roseanna Danna.... I give up. It is chilly and I am bundled up like mid winter.
I listen to Classic Country this morning on my way to the barn.......something corny comes on by Loretta Lynn and I cringe at the words as she sings them.......then I turn the station because I can't take the lyrics.......this isn't the 60's........I find something else........Bob Seger and I feel more at ease...........Old Time Rock n Roll.........something we can dance to ....ummm,,,,,,I mean if we had to.
As I drive to the barn, I pass an orchard and I spot a yearling deer........it is pinto colored....no joke........pinto! Almost like someone spilled bleach across the back.....driving and no camera handy........my luck.
TarBaby has both front feet sore now. Perplexed. It is possible to have two abcesses going....but hmmm.......It seems suspicious. His feet are not overly warm.........he is not cresty......not obese.....but it is almost a week and the work "laminitis" creeps into my thoughts. I take him off his grain and I hate to do it because he doesn't eat much hay.....I give him some bute to ease his pain. He has had a hoof disease in his previous life......I don't even know what it is called......but it is rare and he was studied by WSU and the master farriers.........a whole group of folks.....perhaps he has it back........I was told it never really goes away. Sigh....big sigh.
Mercy is still being Mercy......she came to me for hay tonight.......gave me a dirty look, put her ears back and then nuzzled me. Go figure. She hates me, she loves me.
Promise has adjusted well to Breeze being gone and she is developing a little personality........she loves her grain..........well, don't they all? But she also likes to be petted and brushed now, which is a big change.
We are supposed to have GOOD weather on Friday and Saturday, so we can do more fencing.....maybe make our fire pit too. We resolve to have a barbeque, fireside grilling at the barn this spring and summer.....no matter what. We deserve it.
It is back to the large frog chorus outside my door......I am listening as I type this........you can't just listen to one......there must be a million of them.........all in my pond. Some croak fast and with a regular rhythm, while others croak s l o w l y...........and others croak sporadically. I like frogs.......adorable mosquito eating machines..
Pony Up fortune for tomorrow:
Don't forget to pick up where you left off.
Strange weather this morning......cloudy, sprinkling rain enough to curl my obstinate hair......these are the kind of days when I just can't try to control it....call me Roseanne Roseanna Danna.... I give up. It is chilly and I am bundled up like mid winter.
I listen to Classic Country this morning on my way to the barn.......something corny comes on by Loretta Lynn and I cringe at the words as she sings them.......then I turn the station because I can't take the lyrics.......this isn't the 60's........I find something else........Bob Seger and I feel more at ease...........Old Time Rock n Roll.........something we can dance to ....ummm,,,,,,I mean if we had to.
As I drive to the barn, I pass an orchard and I spot a yearling deer........it is pinto colored....no joke........pinto! Almost like someone spilled bleach across the back.....driving and no camera handy........my luck.
TarBaby has both front feet sore now. Perplexed. It is possible to have two abcesses going....but hmmm.......It seems suspicious. His feet are not overly warm.........he is not cresty......not obese.....but it is almost a week and the work "laminitis" creeps into my thoughts. I take him off his grain and I hate to do it because he doesn't eat much hay.....I give him some bute to ease his pain. He has had a hoof disease in his previous life......I don't even know what it is called......but it is rare and he was studied by WSU and the master farriers.........a whole group of folks.....perhaps he has it back........I was told it never really goes away. Sigh....big sigh.
Mercy is still being Mercy......she came to me for hay tonight.......gave me a dirty look, put her ears back and then nuzzled me. Go figure. She hates me, she loves me.
Promise has adjusted well to Breeze being gone and she is developing a little personality........she loves her grain..........well, don't they all? But she also likes to be petted and brushed now, which is a big change.
We are supposed to have GOOD weather on Friday and Saturday, so we can do more fencing.....maybe make our fire pit too. We resolve to have a barbeque, fireside grilling at the barn this spring and summer.....no matter what. We deserve it.
It is back to the large frog chorus outside my door......I am listening as I type this........you can't just listen to one......there must be a million of them.........all in my pond. Some croak fast and with a regular rhythm, while others croak s l o w l y...........and others croak sporadically. I like frogs.......adorable mosquito eating machines..
Pony Up fortune for tomorrow:
Don't forget to pick up where you left off.
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