More Storms Rolling Through

Water, water everywhere! I know I shouldn’t complain about the rain because we could be in a drought. I am worried about getting this year’s hay supply in without getting rain. I’m afraid this area might be hard hit because of the rain. Can’t put up horse quality hay when it’s constantly raining.

My pasture is currently flooded. The horses go down to the bottom of the pasture and keep their feet cool by walking around in the huge puddles that are appearing. The little creek that runs in to the CRP is full. I need to build some type of bridge. The only way for me to cross the creek is to hop on a horse or jump it. I’m too short to jump on a horse out in the pasture and I’m too short to try and jump the creek, even in the best place to cross.

We had rain last night and another storm rolled through this morning. I woke up to lots of lightening. I figured it might pass before I had to go out and do chores. Not the case. Actually, the lightening I was seeing was from the storm that was approaching.

I scurried out to do morning chores in my pjs, hoping I wouldn’t get drenched and that I wouldn’t have any more escape artists.

I was getting the hay for Maverick when I heard the first rain drops on the hay shed roof. Luckily it always sounds worse than it really is. I scurried around and got Maverick situated for the oncoming storm the best I could. Babe and Queen were up by the corral panels I’m guessing trying to stay away from the mosquitoes, stay in the breeze, and stay out of the rain drops falling from the trees. Poor girls.

I was getting the hay ready for the naughty ponies and it started to rain more. I get a bit leery of being outside when there’s that much lightening. But what do I do but climb a metal corral panel during a lightning storm. I guess that’s what you do when you have horses.

I hurried on to work before the storm hit. It was either stay and wait it out or leave and get to work early. I left early and asked Mike to check on Maverick before he left. He never escaped from his dry lot but I figure at some point he’s going to push on that fence where the wind block blew down. I guess there’s always some type of fencing to do.

Last night we had to run into town to buy more grain for Bob. He seems to go through it pretty quick. We didn’t get a chance to run to Tractor Supply to buy the beet pulp but I’m hoping to make quick trip in on Friday.

The boys were a little miffed that I was home so late. I spent more time putting on fly spray because the mosquitoes were terrible. What hurt my feelings was that about four hours later a huge thunderstorm rolled through and washed off all the fly spray. I guess it helped them for four hours but I could have been inside where it was light, free of mosquitoes, and in bed. Oh well. I guess that’s what you do when you have horses.

I made an appointment with my farrier. He’ll be coming out tomorrow with the chute to trim Bob, Sam, and Babe. Babe doesn’t need the chute but I didn’t have a chance to have her worked on last week. I’m a bit worried about Sam. He hasn’t been done in over a year. Bob’s feet are bad. They are flaring out something fierce. I need to ride Sam before the farrier gets there, otherwise he’s very naughty.

I’m not sure how I’m going to fit everything in. I have tomorrow off so I’m hauling King, Chaos, and Rain to Madison so that dad and I can ride. We have a trail ride on Saturday so I figured we’d ride King and Rain on the ride. But I want to start getting Chaos exposed to everything so I’m hoping to ride him tomorrow too.

I need to run in to Sioux Falls in the later morning/early afternoon so that I can get Bob’s beet pulp. He’s been out for a week now and the beet pulp helps cut down on the amount of senior I use on Bob. I also want to swing through Horse and Hound’s clearance sale. I need a few new tack items so I’m hoping they have what I’m looking for. I’m always up for new/used tack as long as it’s a deal.

But then I need to rush home and get Bob and Babe ready for their tootsie trim. I also need to ride Sam to get the spunk out of him so he’s not so hard on the farrier. I always worry that the farrier will get sick of all my naughty horses and tell me to find someone else. Not many people in this area work on drafts. And my farrier is very reasonable. He’s actually the cheapest around but he does a great job and I don’t have to do anything but catch the horse. He comes out to my place instead of me hauling them and still getting charged an arm and a leg.

That’s about it for now. I need to add more pics. This blog is getting boring without any horses. Sorry Kaidan I know you’ve been expecting pics for a while.