A fairly uneventful day

With the exception of all the drama of the hay delivery--which was more than quoted because the mileage was off. But it is here, it is unloaded, our defective hydraulic thingamajig is in the hospital getting a $150 repair (oy vey, Barry never does anything easy or cheap) and I am home reading a record.

On my agenda for tonight was to catch Squeak who is having her annual eye flareup in the back pasture. This was attempt two--and failure two. She is having none of it. I will win this game some day, I always do!

As a consolation prize, Madison caught Midget who needed to come up for groceries, vaccinations, deworming and trimming. She may be tiny but she is such a good filly----we hauled her up with the Gator, put her in a stall and went to work on her. Madison groomed her, and pulled the baby cockleburrs out of her forelock and she never gave her a bit of trouble. I think I will put her in the sand pit with the yearlings, since she is about their size and should probably be on their same feeding program.

We also started Foxy on beet pulp for her Rehab program. I actually measured everything to know what I am really feeding. I gave her just one small scoop of alfalfa cubes (2 pounds), and three scoops of beet pulp (which came to 1.5 pounds), and then soaked it. I do not normally soak it but those cubes make me nervous. I thought she might need a little bribe to eat the pulp. I had Madison elbow deep in that bucket mushing it all up to make it nice for her--and what did we get for the effort--Fox spitting it at me.

I also scooped loose feed out of the bottom of two deep freezes. I got close to 30 pounds of senior out of one--enough for a feeding for Gramps and Lucky. I want to move that freezer to a better spot out of my way....wonder if I can get Barry to do that?

Meanwhile, I am trying to teach Madison horse things--I guess I feel like I should give her SOMETHING in return for all she does. I try to take every learning opportunity I can, and tonight the lesson was to never measure feed by the scoop or the coffee can like so many people do, but to MEASURE the weight, as everything weighs something different. This is day two of measuring things around there, so I am sure that is sinking in. To my surprise, she actually taught me something--she suggested that I put a sticker on each scoop that shows how much of each product it holds. Well, by God, that is a great idea! Now I am hunting some stickers to write on. I wonder if she cleans houses?

Things I did not do today that I should have---clean stalls. I cannot make myself do it. I probably will do one or two yet tonight when I go back for the third feeding. I still have to vaccinate Mojo who is acting a damn fool in his stall, but I need Barry to help me with that, as Mojo is acting a bit like his sister about this stall business, and no one needs to get hurt. Fortunately, he is expected in about 10 pm tonight, so we can do that and check one more thing off the list.

If I can get him to get the lead rope out of my mower and bring it to the house, I will be set up with projects for at least two more days this week. It takes that long to mow here, especially if I do inside the fence lines.

Other than that, there is not a huge amount on the agenda this week--just everyday things. The weather is so nice, but it is humid---I just got in and it is about 80 degrees but I am still dripping sweat from the humidity. Maybe there will be time tomorrow to ride.