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Summer On the Way
So much to do this morning that the coffee maker was started at 4:45 am so I could get my caffeine fix before heading to work. Both of Titus' water buckers were empty this morning and it looked like he had dumped them both. This didn't make sense so later when I had time the video cameras were checked. I thought maybe the cats had a fight on his stall and he got scared and dumped the buckets. Both Titus and Aiken were put out and by 5:45 am I was at the barn getting ready for the group coming in today. Mark came to help as we had lots of drywall mud and dust to clean up in the game room. He went over the floor with the vacuum then I swept it and finally mopped the entire floor finishing by 8:00 am. I was so glad to quit and go home to make breakfast. After breakfast the laundry was started. I had 10 table cloths to wash and since the weather was so nice those were hung outside to dry.
The family renting the motorhome arrived right at 9:00 am. I had moved it into the yard when putting the horses out so they could park their van next to the barn.
We went over every thing but the key to the outside storage areas didn't work. Thankfully I had another at the house. After they left with the motorhome Aiken and Titus were put out in the outdoor arena for some grazing time.
The apartment was cleaned next. As I was doing laundry at the house all of the apartment laundry was taken there and I just kept those machines running all day. The people renting the barn today are holding a graduation party for 3 graduates. It was a very well attended party. They even invited us over for fried chicken and all kinds of sides and desserts but we had already eaten so turned them down. Mike and Diane spent the day at Middle Grove then went to the Giant Goose Ranch for supper. The Goose Ranch restaurant, The HUB has a great menu on Saturday nights. When they got back they helped change Sheena's bandage on her hoof. She was also given 40 ccs of the antibiotic Gentamicin. She was given 2 scoops of grain which kept her busy while we were working on her leg and giving her the shot. They were let into the mare pasture once done. Below she is sporting her new bandage (thanks Sarah R for the vet wrap).
Dancer had to come see what we were doing.
The sun was sinking low as I was putting Titus and Aiken back in their stalls for the night. It was that deep red color again but the phone camera doesn't do a good job accurately depicting the true color.
If I zoomed it way in it made the sky almost black but showed the correct color of red.
Both horses were glad to come in for their grain. Aiken is still not showing ANY signs of getting close to delivering. I know I have the dates of her cover correct but she is now 12 days overdue.
Titus is getting fat. I'll need to cut back on his grain. He lived at Middle Grove for the first 2 years of his life and loved running up and down the hills but now we are on flat land and he is either in a stall, a paddock or the outdoor arena. It was only as I was filling Titus' water buckets that I figured out why both were empty. One of his buckets had a hole in it and that emptied out on the floor. He drank the other one. I had checked all of the video from his stall last night. He made himself comfortable laying on top of the hay for a good nap, then would get up and eat, walk to the back of the stall to leave a pile of manure then walk back over to the hay and lay down for another nap. This went on all night. He was never scared and did not dump his bucket.
He has just laid down right now as I'm typing this. I took a screen shot.
It was a hot today with the temperatures hitting 82 degrees. Summer is finally on the way!