The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread EIGHT

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[FrogInABlender]

Well, it doesn't look TOO bad. Nothing that a good reorganization won't fix. It's funny how you can stand disarray like that for so long and then it's like it reaches some kind of psychic critical mass and you just feel like you're going to explode if you don't clean it up...right now! I get that way with our computer/junk room.

[HairOfTheDog]

Well, it's that inpenetrable pile on the right side of the picture that's gettin' to me. I can't ~get~ to the shelves and cabinet that stuff is all supposed to go in.

[FrogInABlender]

I know how that is. The tack room in the old barn at my BIL's was that way. I just had to start draggin' the junk out in the barn isle and stuffing it in old feed sacks to be thrown away later, digging a path as I went. I ended up with about 16 sacks. I usually manage to sneak a bag or two of it a week out with my regular garbage when it's not raining that morning. I'm afraid if I put it all out at once they would say that it was "trash" instead of "garbage" and wouldn't pick it up. Garbage snobs! I'm down to about 10 sacks now. I meant to bring home another couple of sacks last night but my Jeep was full of Christmas shopping loot.

I went on a shopping spree yesterday and finally got it all done. I was mostly looking for toys for my great nephews and niece but found quite a few goodies for my husband too. Toy shopping for kids is an eye-opening experienced for the uninitiated. I was standing there debating the relative merits of a couple of different dolls for my GN when this little girl about waist high comes around the corner and she's looking at the dolls I'm standing in front of and she's got this look in her eyes that I've only ever seen when one of the cats is about to pounce on some wiggly thing they've seen across the room, or maybe when you're holding some particularly delectable goody in your hand that the dog wants. Anyways, I was apparently in her way and I could hear this small voice in my head telling me to "Step AWAY from the dolls!", and as soon as I did, buddy, she was ON 'em. It was really funny.

[HairOfTheDog]

LOL about the dolls and the shopping... we're all done too, we think. ecurbh and I usually forego gifts to each other, thinking it more efficient to consider ourselves one budgetary unit who needs to have as much available as possible to buy gifts for others :~D

This year though, ecurbh will be getting a new hackamore as his present, only we aren't buying it this pay period, we have till spring to buy it when there is less demand for cash on hand :~D


And I still haven't gone out to the barn yet... Still getting myself psyched up. Most of the most offensive clutter is garbage... old electrical tape we took down, empty feed and bedding sacks, and tangles of baling twine. A few garbage bags and five minutes... and I'd be well on my way... I'm bein' lazy and it just feels cold and chilly when I go stand and look at it.

[FrogInABlender]

Yeah, I could do without buying gifts for each other too, but MrFrog would pout. He's funny! We both buy everything we want anyways so it's really kinda silly.

About the barn cleaning, I'd rather it be cold when I have to do stuff like that than hot. At least you can put on enough layers to stay comfortable as you heat up, plus it kinda keeps the dirt off of ya. I HATE being nasty AND hot.

[CindyDawg]

I don't remember what I ordered so it must have been ok. I do remember that there were huge cinnamon rolls for sell :')

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

The cinnamon rolls were the best thing she had for breakfast. She continued to sell them even after she stopped breakfast. I don't know why she doesn't sell them now, they always sold out.

Anyway, I'm back. i ran out of time to get the stuff for the new hotwire fence. I'll run to town tomorrow. But the barn is looking great. Mack hauled in some dirt to each stall and leveled the floors up, and he straightened up the walls at the bottom where the dirt had bowed them out. He got the hotwire box moved to the feed room stall, so I won't have wire strung clear from the shop. And he got Harleys wall back up. Tomorrow we should be able to get the hotwiring all done and the panels moved to where Harley can get in his stall.

I'll get pictures of everything tomorrow.

Becky

[HairOfTheDog]

Good job - look forward to your pictures tomorrow.

I didn't end up doing much in the barn. It just felt too cold, so I did dishes and laundry and of course... sat here at my computer.... I'm gonna head out there now and see if I can make more progress :~D.

[squarebarb]

Thank you all for your concern!

The vet called back and says that it is indeed a persistent infection and not lymphoma! Yesterday I was crying my eyes out thinking I would have to have her put down buit now it seems she has a chance. She is running a low fever of 101. I am giving her 30 cc's of doxycyclin twice a day. Luckily I can just squirt it in her mouth.

So, hopes are up. The white mare's cuts are not bad. Thanks, all.

[HairOfTheDog]

That's such good news... happy to hear that! Hope now that the infection clears.


I tell ya, a lesser temper would have shot my two mares tonight at feeding time just for being unbearably stupid.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Oh yeah, what happened?

Becky

[HairOfTheDog]

Heh - They have to walk quite a ways to the 'far' corner to get from the back forty into the paddock. They have to 'go north to get south' if you understand the description. They just had this complete brain fart tonight and couldn't figure out how to do it. They have had to do this a million times before, and tonight they can't figure it out. Bay does... he walks around, they start to follow but after he rounds the corner and starts toward the barn, they turn and walk the fenceline with him... on the wrong side. ~sigh~

So I walk out to the gate opening (in the rain) and call them. I catch Cyn by the mane and lead her back, the pony doesn't follow, she's still standing as close as she can get to the barn on the wrong side. Not wanting to have to walk out there again, I let go of Cyn, because she's now on the right side of the fence, and I go to get the pony.... and Cyn trots back around and joins her. So I go to catch them both and they run off through the woods.... Bay's in his stall goin ape all this time. I swear, I was so mad I wanted to leave them out! :~D

I finally got Cyn to come back around... but stooopid pony returns to the same spot on the wrong side of the fence. I had to go get friggin grain and coax her back around the opening.

They've figured out how to do this every night for MONTHS. till tonight.... 'blam' 'blam'

[HairOfTheDog]

BUT, I got the barn clean... mostly... I didn't get it swept, but will do that tomorrow :~D

Before:

After:

Note the two stooopid mares... I didn't kill them ;~D.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

LoL, they do have lapses at times.

Last night Rocky was standing out side his run at feed time. I walked into his run, he watched me, I shook the bucket dumped it in his feed pan and walked out of his run just as he was coming into it. as I walked up the fence he turned and followed me like I hadn't dumped his feed yet....I feed Harley and he was still standing at the corner of the fence watching me like he was waiting for me to come feed him. I just went to the house. sometime thru the night he figured it out, because the feed was gone this morning:)

Becky

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Good job:)

Becky

[HairOfTheDog]

I was this > < close to leaving the pony out. Only downside is I would have had to close Bay in, and I don't usually do that.

[FrogInABlender]

Wow Barb, that's great! An infection we can handle. Thank God for small favors. :o)

[MissTargets]

Good Morning.

So, glad to hear that your horses do not have anything serious.

Becky, Hair has more patience then I do. Mine would have stayed out until they figured out, what they have been doing for months. Of course, I would have felt guilty and would have went back out and checked on them.

[HairOfTheDog]

I coulda served them up as roast beast... ;~D

[FrogInABlender]

...They just had this complete brain fart tonight and couldn't figure out how to do it...

LOL!!! Ya gotta love 'em don'tcha! And ya gotta wonder what they were thinking while all this was going on coz Bay's apparently the brains of the opperation.

All they know is that A: they're supposed to follow Bay and he'll get 'em to the barn, and B: the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, so to their way of thinking, when he got around the end of the fence they were just trying to find the shortest way to him. Bless their little hearts! ;o)

I'd've probably been mad enough at that point to just leave 'em out there and see if hunger would sharpen their little pea-pickin' brains a little bit. Either that or let Bay back out since he was going crazy at this point anyways, and let him run back out there with them and lead them back to the barn eventually.