Friday Ramblings

Huh, didn’t realize I hadn’t posted anything since Monday. I haven’t done much with the horses this week. I’ve been sick this week and the paying job has me swamped. It doesn’t leave me with much energy or ambition to get anything done with the horses (even though I’m so far behind) when I finally get home.

I had such high hopes of getting the horses out on the lawn to adjust to grass. I guess that’s my goal for the weekend. The weatherman is calling for rain on Saturday so not sure I’ll get anything done. I guess that’s ok since I have to go in for some additional tests in the morning. I don’t understand why doctors aren’t as up front as vets. My vet doesn’t sugar coat anything but he also tells me exactly what he’s going to do before he does it, tells me what he’s doing while he does it, and then explains any reactions that may occur. I don’t get that when I go to doctors. But I digress.

Last week Mike was able to get the sprayer rigged and the fertilizer figured out. So now the big pasture has been both sprayed and fertilized. It was definitely a learning curve. We ended up getting too much fertilizer so headed to Madison to fertilize Mom and Dad’s pasture after Mike finished ours. Monday we headed to Madison to spray Mom and Dad’s pasture. I’m hoping to take two horses up for two weeks to eat down their pasture and then give their pasture about three to four weeks rest before bringing two horses up there again. I want to try and keep as much pressure off our pasture as possible. I know we fertilized and sprayed but we are in “rescue” mode so it’s going to take a lot more work to get the pasture to recover. I may see if I can rent the neighbor’s pasture this summer. Using his pasture last year really seemed to help. It was a bit of a pain in the butt to check on them so many times, but it was worth it knowing they had lots of grass and I could rotate them to different areas.

I’ve been getting braver and letting Babe and Thor out when I let Queen out to graze. Queen prefers to stay by the barn and the house. Babe wanders some but not too far. Thor doesn’t go very far at all. He’s WAY more comfortable with his condition than he was even six months ago. I tried letting him out on grass last year and he freaked but he’s either used to being completely blind or just craves the grass so much he doesn’t care what he bumps in to. Either way, it’s nice to have at least some horses out on pasture.

We pushed a new bale in to the blind pen and I don’t believe Thor picked his head up from devouring the grass. The horses in the drylot looked on with envy (as did Rabbit and Mayhem). I need to get Rabbit adjusted to grass soon too. Her heaves are going to get worse with the higher humidity. Poor girl, I know exactly how she feels when it comes to not being able to breath.

I’m hoping the weekend will be fairly low key so that I can rest and recover. I’m also hoping I’ll have enough energy to get out and get the horses out on the lawn. We are camping over Memorial weekend and it would be so much easier to have horses out on pasture by then instead of checking on them twice a day. Luckily my family is understanding and knows that sometimes you just have to give up some “family time” for other times of “family time.”

I'm feeling guilty too. There's another horse sale tonight but I don't feel well enough to go. Not that I can bring anyone home but I still feel guilty for not being there. I know it sounds crazy but I want to be there to support those souls even if it is to just pray for them when they walk off the auction floor.

Oh, and I have fantastic news about Savanna. If I have time, I’ll try and put a post on here tonight or this weekend so you can all enjoy some fantastic news too!