Grooming

I had high hopes last night of riding Maverick. But by the time I got home from the paying job, caught Maverick, and had all the mud off of him, I decided against it. I need to pull the blind horses out of their pen so that I can do a little bit of ground work with Maverick before I swing a leg over. He’s been sitting for too long. I didn’t have the energy or feel well enough to tackle that project. Instead I just puttered with him. He’s so bored these days; I thought it would be good for him to stand patiently tied to the trailer and see if he could engage his brain.

There was still plenty of daylight after Maverick’s grooming so I figured I’d pull Ivan out and give him a good grooming. I had such high hopes of sending him to a trainer this year but that idea fell through. I won’t be able to ride soon so no sense in putting money into him just yet. And we still need to scrape up the money to repair Mayhem’s hernia. I have a master plan on how it’s all going to work out.

Ivan wasn’t thrilled with getting caught. I’m going to have to work on that. Good thing for me, he’s super lazy, although lately I HAVE seen him do more than a slow walk. Ivan doesn’t have much of his winter coat left but I spent some time pulling cockleburs and making him stand. He wasn’t too thrilled with the fly spry or the show sheen so I need to spend more time messing with him.

During all this time, I had Queen out enjoying some grass. She is always so much happier when she’s wandering the lawn rather than cooped up in that pen. I figured I might as well kick her out of the pen since we had to push a new round bale in to the blind pen. Happiness is a new round bale! I need to take pictures when we first push a round bale in for Thor, Babe and Queen. Thor simply stands there and eats from the top down (so does Babe for that matter). For some reason, it just looks cute to me. I’ll see if I can snap some pictures tonight.

I did take a few pictures of Maverick and Ivan but our internet is crappy at best so I couldn’t post any pictures this morning. I’m going to try and be better about posting more pictures. More pictures, less rambling.

Mike spent the evening getting the sprayer ready on the back of the farm truck. The weatherman said we were supposed to get severe weather but he was wrong (shocker). Yesterday was absolutely gorgeous with very little wind. Mike got the sprayer ready and headed out to the pasture. This is our first time figuring out the right levels and speeds for spraying. It’s all a learning curve. Hopefully we’ll get rid of all the weeds. We can’t do the bottom of the pasture just yet because it’s still soggy. We are supposed to get rain later this week so there probably won’t be any more spraying until next week.

Mike is headed to Campbell Supply tonight to buy his second toy of the week. He’s getting a spreader so that we can put down fertilizer. I’m excited to see progress on the pasture. Now that the weeds are sprayed and hopefully won’t rear their ugly heads, we can fertilize the grass and have it come back in all its glory. We are slowly getting there.

I love seeing progress be it educating the horses, fixing up a building, fixing/building fence, or general cleanup. I’m a visual person and have to see the progress before I can feel satisfied.

I don’t have any plans for tonight. I’m sure it’ll depend on the weather and how I’m feeling. Probably no riding but I’m sure I’ll mess around with a couple of the horses. Wonder which ones will come up when I show them a halter. Now that Ivan and Maverick had a chance to snitch some grass, I wonder if they’ll be right there or if they’ll hang back and be hard to catch. Dude is always so curious to know what’s going on. I may pull him just so I don’t have to fight him off to catch anyone else. Guess we’ll just see how things go. I’ll try to post pictures tonight and on our FB page.