Posted on 08/07/2007 7:33:14 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Hello, we have power in town...so we have moved in:) I’m not spending another night in that house with no power.
Everything is melting, but the downed tree limbs are just unbeliveable...everywhere. They have cleared the roads as much as possible, so getting to town wasn’t hard...I had more trouble getting out my drive...had to move some branches and go around the shop and out the county line road.
I’m not sure when power will go back on at the house...I’ll run out there a few times a day to feed and check things. We are heading to Blockbuster in a bit...season 3 of Lost came out on DVD today...hopefully we’ll they’ll have a copy in. They aren’t even opening for another hour...just got power back, and working on getting their computers up and running.
BEcky
Hey there. Hope you get power back at the house soon.
Good to hear from you though, I was gonna call again and make sure you guys were still OK.
I’ve never heard of giving horses wheat bran either, but I’d imagine that it’d be like any other grain and you’d want to be careful of the carbs in it if he’s got Cushings.
They do recommend flax seed meal though. It’s high in Omega-3 or Omega-6. I can never remember which. I give Tennessee about 2oz of that per day, which weighs out to be about a cup by volume, so he gets a half a cup at each feeding.
We’re surviving...I got the ice off Rockys hot wire, and got it back up, hopefully he’ll stay in even tho it’s not hot.
Hey, thanks so much for calling,and thinking of us:) It’s very much appreciated.
Becky
Of course!
I know what it’s like being cut off from the world. You can call us too, any time, if you start wondering if there’s a world out there.
How was the book? :~)
don’t know about wheat bran but Prez gets two scoops of beet pulp with his other food morning and night. He needs it for bulk and weight because he cannot have hay.
Endurance people use it because it helps hydrate their horses.
Glad you are okay. I was looking at pictures of OK this morning and they are awful. Trees snapped and down all over the place.
So what are y'all going to do, sleep down in the building on cots? At least you can get something good to eat at the little restaurant next door that way.
Hey Becky, good to see you. I just came back from my administrator training (Awful!) and now I have to go and work the night shift to try to make up work because we have a bunch of people out. Just popping in.
I’m trying to get George to gain more weight. He looks like a skeleton.
I forgot about flaxseed and I think I have some of that! Thanks for the reminder.
Hoo boy Becky, I’ve seen the mess y’all are having up there on the news. I thought it missed you but I guess not.
Why can’t Prez have hay? No teeth?
I wish there was a grass hay pellet or cube that horses could eat free choice. I get tired of soaking beet pulp.
Prez has a pouch type thing in his throat, has had for years, vet thinks possibly since birth. Anyway, anything dry but particularly hay sticks there and chokes him.
His feed is beet pulp, alfalfa pellets, equine senior and one other feed (at work and I can’t remember what it is but a pelletted feed of some kind) twice a day. The beet pulp and alfalfa pellets are mixed and have water added after feeding so it is all soaked at the next feeding. The rest is just added at the time of feeding but there is enough moisture to prevent him choking.
It was suppose to miss us!!! But the weather men got it wrong...again. The ice is all melted now...but it is still raining. The down trees is just incredible around here...I’ve never seen anything like it...I’ll post pictures when I can from home...I don’t know how here.
Yes we will sleep down here at the building,we went and rented some DVD’s to watch, I brought some cots,..Jenny and her family are all down here too, and have set up a mattress and TV in one of the offices on her side. Charlie and his family went home, they have a wood burning stove.
Becky
Well, I hope they can get your power restored soon, now that the ice is gone.
Glad to hear you are safe and warm. It sounds like maybe the worst is over, just a monumental clean up task. Take care.
Well, how are ya this morning? How are all the critters?
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