Eh...whatever. Et cetera

Enough wallowing. Back to business here in this house. I am undergoing an attitude adjustment, which I am sure you know I sorely need.

Or I would be back to business if I was not sick as hell again. I cannot do anything, lest I start coughing again, which as often as not makes me throw up. I sweat, then I shiver, then I sneeze, and now my throat is starting to hurt.

I have not worked out a single day this week, since my training session on Monday. I feel awful. It does not help that it is non-stop raining, so everything is a mess and the barn is flooded again. That just makes me more depressed and feel crappier.

In other news, HaidaGirl was bred Tuesday morning, to Sophisticated Catt. They sent AWESOME semen, which was exciting since I heard from people that bred to him last year that it was only average. Maybe there was a difference in him from showing to win a World Championship, and being full on retired like he is this year. HG ovulated right on time, so now we wait. Aries is being bred to him Saturday morning. Getting her to this stage has been problematic, she just would not build a follicle. I cannot even tell you how many lutes or estrumates she has had, and finally we just now got her to a 30 mm follicle. I cannot for the life of me remember what she did last year, so we are Regumating her to hold her off until then. I am burning through all those jillions of bottles of Regumate that tend to stack up over the various seasons finally.So many things have happened around here that I have not gotten to blog about. For example, we had mass gelding day recently. Well, "mass" if two counts--that is all I had in the 2008 foal crop. Here Uno loves me, because he had no idea what was coming next.


Here he is half way through the process--that is some nut material laying up on his side. And that is a polo shirt over his eyes--it helps them sleep through it better, although he was up and at 'em in minutesPoor Uno did hot have all his gear in an easily accessible position, so it took some digging to get those little buggers out of there. As usual though, Dr M fixed him right up.



The next one we did was Reno. Normally I would not be so tacky as to take and post pics of this, but look at this poor fool. His little nuts were so tiny--and long, goofy shape. Definitely good he was gelded as those things likely would not have worked for any useful purpose anyway. No wonder he had no idea he was a boy, like Uno did. The doc had several potential explanations for the teeny nuts, which was interesting and not something I have ever seen. To be honest though, we normally cut all our boys so young that it does not become something you think much about, unless you know they are destined to remain intact at least for a while.

That gets one more annual spring job out of the way.

I feel like I am behind everything by a month this year. That may well turn out to be a good thing for us, considering how everything has gone berserk this week. It would be nice if Foxy and Snap, both of whom are overdue, could hang on until it dried out around here a little--whenever that might be.

We still have no final verdict on Barry's job situation. Evidently, there is a deal in the works with the bank that has been fronting the operating costs for his company--if they all agree to this, which should happen (if it is going to) by tomorrow--they will be okay for a couple months maybe. Time enough to get a new position, at least. That time might manage to get the State of Illinois to move their asses and pay the company the many millions they owe them--and thereby keep them out of bankruptcy.

Monday nite, some of them were given the option of riding out this week (which ends tomorrow at the end of the pay period) on the basis that they know they are gambling that they will not get paid. He decided to do that--so now we wait and hope to have a verdict tomorrow. If it is not signed, the company will be forced to bankruptcy and Barry will have to apply for unemployment Monday morning. And thank God such a thing exists, but it will still be a monster hit against what he normally earns.

Today the news crews are all over his company, raising hell about what is going on, and how the State sucks. That don't pay the mortgage though, does it?

We will be fine though, we always are. Just have to change some things, some of them big, some of them small, but we will figure it out. It may be good for us by forcing us to move some horses out and quit living like rich people, because we just are not. We never were, but sometimes we forgot that. OK a lot of times we forgot that.

Cross your fingers that things fall into place.