Not much excitement

No great excitement yesterday at Borderlands. The mosquitoes are getting fierce. I'm glad the horses are vaccinated against west nile but I still worry. the mosquiotes are driving me in earlier every night. With the last rain we received, I now have standing water in the pasture. The horses love to go down to the low ground and walk through the water. I'm guessing it cools their hooves off. I just wish I could figure out how to remove the mosquitoes. I guess I don't and I just vaccinate and flyspray as best I can.

This morning the girls were up by the water trough. I'm hoping that they will start a new trend and be by the water trough in the mornings so I can pull off their fly masks at night and put them back on in the morning.

The flies are vicious also. Except these flies bite and never let up. At least they arent' the face flies. I haven't yet started putting fly masks on everyone but I'm sure the time will come shortly. Usually the face flies start showing up about August. I might start putting on fly masks just to help reduce the glare of the sun.

I need to take stock of the fly masks. I also need to do some repairs on fly sheets. I'd like to try a fly sheet on Dude. I doubt the fly sheets help with the mosquitoes but Dude has such an allergic reaction to mosquitoes. He swells up everywhere he gets bitten. I can't stall him because he'll tear the barn apart unless I put someone else in there with him.

I did get a chance to ride Rain last night. I haven't ridden him since the last saddle club meeting. We didn't get to go very far. I need to make a repair to my saddle before I get back in, otherwise i'll lose a stirrup. It's probably a good thing we didn't ride too long. The mosquitoes got bad and maybe now Rain will let me catch him again for another ride down the road. He was ready and raring to go I think. I'm sure they are all getting bored with just standing around. I know I get bored.

I move the pony pasture again. Now all I have to do is open the gate. The problem is I am starting to run out of places to put them. I may have to finally break down and actually do some fencing in the trees behind their night pen. It would be nice to have that grass eaten down so we can get in there and cut more dead trees down. I guess there's always advantages to that.

That's the extend of the excitement yesterday at Borderlands.