Stressed

I've been too tired lately to do much more than minimal chores. I feel bad for the horses. By the time I get my lazy butt of the couch the mosquitoes are starting to come out. They are bad right now. We have had so much rain lately that there's standing water at the bottom of the pasture. Usually that never happens except in the spring. I can only imagine how boggy/swampy the CRP is right now.

I found two ads for hay today. I'm hoping to make a couple more contacts soon. I'd really like to have extra hay in the barn. I'm not going to be picky about the hay, well, picky as in dairy quality type hay. I just need average hay for Maverick and Brego this winter. I've decided I need to up Maverick's hay to get him back to the right weight, which means I need more hay. I also need to get him out on grass soon so that I can put him in with the big herd while I'm on vacation. Oh vacation, it can't come soon enough.

I'm hoping tonight to have more energy so I can start working on the pony fence. I have decided that I can't just leave the electric fence up. I put Tommy and Skippy in the pony lawn pasture yesterday and Skippy kept charging the fence, even with two strands of electric. I figured I'd better not push my luck so into the dry lot they went. It's frustrating to have all that good grass and not be able to have the ponies eat it. But I have to watch where I put them because of the mosquitoes. So there goes more hay feeding the ponies.

But I'm running out of options so I'm going to just throw a few strands of fence up and see what comes of it.

I need to get cracking on the other pasture for the mares. I'm afraid their current pasture isn't going to hold up as well as I'd hoped. I need to do a bit more fencing but if I don't get the other one up and running soon they will be pushing on the fence and either get into the CRP or out onto the road. Having a blind horse on a road is just not good.

I seem to be a bit stressed these days. I'm guessing it has to do with not getting the fencing done and trying to find more hay. I already put my order in for hay this year but if I get any additional horses this fall/winter I won't have enough. I'd rather have too much than not enough. I'm looking at not enough right now and that's unacceptable. And the weather doesn't help. I'm afraid any hay I get right now will mold, or get too hot and combust.

I'd like to work on the fencing but how do you put in big wood fence posts without an auger. The hand auger takes two people, we don't yet have a tractor we can borrow (although I think I asked for one three months ago). So that leaves me with the ol' clam chuck method. I don't want to do that but I'm thinking I'm going to start digging some holes to get the first fence in by the barn. I want that fence to be all wood so I might as well start digging.

This Saturday is another trail ride. I'll have to blog about this past weekend. I'm a bit worried about this upcoming ride, but only because of my lack of riding time on Chaos. I seem to be losing my summer.

I'd planned on attending a horse clinic/workshop tonight but with the overwhelming feeling I have right now I've decided to bail on the workshop and do some fencing. I'm hoping if I get something done around the place tonight that I'll feel productive and motivated to keep going. We are already half way through summer and I'm still at the beginning of summer instead. Next thing you know it'll be winter and I STILL won't have anything done that needed to get done this year. Lets just hope that this year will be a long fall or a mild winter so I can get stuff done.