The last few days were miserable with wind. The day before
yesterday in fact (while the wind was howling) I spent most of the day with
either a hot or cold compress on my eye. I guess I start wearing my safety
sunglasses more. My eyes are still a little raw, but not bad. Yesterday I was a
good girl, and wore my glasses all the time I was working outside, well at
least until I started cutting wood.
Rudy, and I got Sere moved back to the pasture, and Star into Espree’s
old stall. He was a little skeptical with three horses running around, but I
told him it wouldn’t be a problem, and it wasn’t. Once in her stall Star
carried on like a little idiot (she misses her buds) until feeding time.
Tomorrow we’ll see how she does with the rest of the girls. I’m sure there will
be lots of screaming, as the boys will be clamoring to see the new girl. It’s
bad enough that Lizzie is in (again), and I’m sure that Star will come in
shortly after she gets to visit the boys whenever she wants.
I know some people will probably have apoplexy over my just
letting the girls run loose when I have three stallions in stalls. Rudy was
even skeptical, but it is working out well. It takes about a week for the
newness to wear off, but once it does the girls are fine. The one issue I have
is that Lizzie seems to be constantly coming in season, and since Jeri thinks
he’s still a 3 year old he’s lost a little weight running back, and forth all
the time. One advantage I can see is that if I can train while horses are out,
and about doing their thing, whoever I’m training will learn that above all
else they need to pay attention to the person on their back. We’ll see how it
works out, especially when I start working more with LBM. One thing he needs to
learn about is behaving himself when there are mares around. Ibn used to be
real good about it. We could take him to a show, and never worry about other
horses either stallions or mares. He knew there was a time, and a place for
nookie, and the rest of the time (especially when someone was on his back)
there were rules to obey. Nowadays I’m not so sure. The last time I took him
down Laughing Horse he bellowed at every horse along the way. I have yet to
work with LBM on just about anything, including stallion manners beyond going
back, and forth to the round pen. That’s one of the disadvantages of not having
Rudy around all the time. He is the trainer after all, and I just don’t have
the time to do all the things I need to do.
Meanwhile I didn’t get anything done at all today, not even
wood. While I was feeding I hurt so bad I couldn’t even clean stalls. It wasn’t
that windy, just cold. I came in took a nerve pill, and a muscle relaxer, and
that was all she wrote. There are days when my body simply refuses to do what I
tell it to do, and today was one of those. I did manage to let Star out with
the rest of the girls before I bailed. I opened the stall gate, and out she
trotted happy as a clam. She went to see her buds, and barely paid any
attention at all to the boys. Of course she’s not in season so that helps big
time. I assume things were quiet, but since I slept all day I really have no
clue other than when I went to put everyone back in their respective stalls
things were quiet. Even though she wasn’t Johnny on the spot ready to go back
to her stall (this was her first day after all), she came right to me when I
called. She’s such a good girl. I give it about a week, and then just like the
others when she hears the gator she will start moseying back to her stall. Lets
face it local grasses are great, but alfalfa is better.
Yes I’m back to feeding alfalfa at night, and grass in the
morning. There’s no more Alfalfa mix for a while. Why is it that it’s mostly
mares that are picky about their feed? The boys seem to inhale it no matter
what it is, in fact sometimes it seems as though Ibn prefers grass. I’ve thrown
him a flake each (when I can get small grass flakes), and he will go after the
grass first then the alfalfa. Other times he wants the candy first, but
whatever I give him (save for oat hay) he eats it all. At any rate this morning
for the most part the girls turned their noses up at the grass until they
realized that that’s all they were getting. Of course tonight as soon as I
threw them their alfalfa they barely came up for air, not even for their
goodies (those that got goodies that is), and trust me Marina always screams
for her goodies.
So that’s it for today, no real excitement, which is a good
thing. Hopefully tomorrow will be better, and I can actually get some work done.
It better be since I will have twice the poop to deal with (after all what goes
in must come out, and a lot goes in). I also have to cut wood tomorrow or we
won’t have anything to keep us warm. Luckily it’s not supposed to rain or snow
tomorrow, at least I hope not. You know those weather people there’s always one
reason or another for the weather not turning out to be quite what they said it
would be.
Later…
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