Rambling

Where to begin? The last few days have been a blur.  I feel like I'm playing catchup and not doing a very good job. The big herd is out on pasture so now I can focus my attention on getting the ponies, Rabbit, and Mayhem adjusted to grass. I've had all four of them out on grass a little bit these last few days. It's so nice to watch them graze.

I had Rabbit and Mayhem in with the ponies yesterday but they decided to take the fence down and eat closer to the red shed. I had to fix the fence and decided to let them eat where they were instead of fight them. Turns out, Mayhme put herself back in the pen when she was done eating and Rabbit checked out the hay shed and grass by the hay barn before snoozing on the concrete by the blind pen. I really want to get Rabbit on grass to help with her heaves. Every year they flare up and even the AntiHist doesn't seem to do much now.

Queen coliced again last night. I pulled her out to eat grass last night and saw her down. I thought maybe she just rolled (although she very rarely does). Mike walked by not long after that and said she was down again. So she once again coliced. I'm starting to think it's the hay. We pushed a bale in on Friday and she coliced on Sunday. She'd only had about two mouthfuls of grass so it wasn't the grass. I have to go back through the Facebook posts. Someone suggested something to try or look into and I'm drawing a blank. I'm willing to try anything. But I need to face the facts that she is 34 years old and wont' live forever. She's lost a lot of weight. My only way to get the weight back is to start graining her twice a day, which is the plan. But if she doesn't pick up the weight by this fall, we will have to consider the alternatives.

She could have been colicy earlier this weekend but Mike and I snuck away for a mini vacation for the weekend. I had such high hopes that everything would be fine when we returned. I guess not. Teach me to try and sneak away for a break from all the stresses as of late.

Speaking of stresses, I can't seem to catch up. Work has me buried and by the time I finally get home, I'm too exhausted to do much with the horses. There's so much I need to do with them and yet, I can't seem to find the energy to do more than pull the big herd in from the pasture and throw hay to the others. I'll be so happy when I don't have to throw hay and just pull horses in from the pastures for the night. I'm sure to get spoiled when that time comes.

The boys are getting used to coming up for the evening. I am getting rather spoiled about it. All I have to do is yell out to the herd and someone comes up. Of course, I try to give each of them a little treat for coming up so I don't have to convince them all to come up. I'm not sure if they missed me while I was gone this past weekend. It sure seemed like it but maybe I'm reading too much into it. I know I sure missed the "kids".

I probably won't post much more this week. The paying job has me so busy I am not sure if I'm coming or going these days. What little time I do have, I want to spend with the "kids," so if I don't post much here or on Facebook, it's not that we aren't around, it's just that I'm trying to get things accomplished and it's just the boring day-to-day activities going on.