Quiet on the Home Front

I've been a bit under the weather these last few days. I think it's mostly due to the constant rain we've been having. Monday night we had torrental rains that almost flooded the barn. I'd pulled Bob and Rain into the barn for the night already. I don't want Bob out in bad weather and Rain can't really handle nasty weather as well as the others.

All of a sudden the skies opened up and it poured out. King had wandered out of the leanto off the barn and was standing there in the torrential rains. Poor guy. I tried to coax him into the barn but he didn't want to do anything but stand there. Silly guy. I guess he wanted to get his coat all nice and white again. Spring time is so tough on him. He goes from a pretty white paint to a mud brown paint.

Yesterday since the wind was so fierce and cold, I decided to throw Bob's blanket back on him. I don't think he was too thrilled but he was too busy still munching on his food to really notice or care. Rain gave me the evil eye. I'm sure he thought I was going to put his blanket on. Don't worry buddy. You're blanket it too heavy for 40 degree weather.

I'm hoping at some point it'll stop raining so that I can get the pens cleaned out again. It may be weeks before we can get the tractor into the horse pens. Until then, I'll be cleaning the pens out with the ol' shovel (as long as the weather is warm enough).

I've been rather spoiled here lately. Last week it was so nice we filled Maverick and Brego's big water trough. Neither Mike or I have had to haul water over to those boys in about a week. I could definately get used to not hauling water.

I am starting to worry about my hay supply. For some reason these last three bales have been going faster than I had expected. I'm not sure if I'm giving them more because of the bad weather, the slivers are bigger (since they are the big bales), or what. I'm not over feeding them, although their fat bellys may say otherwise.

Pretty quite on the homefront. I'm hoping this weekend we can get more stuff done around the place (house and garage). Still no pictures. I keep forgetting to post while I'm on the other computer that has the pics (or to bring the CD with pics to this computer). Maybe tonight.