Back From Vacation!

Sorry for the lapse in posts. We went on our annual family vacation to the Black Hills. Unfortunately, we went during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Week so we had to get creative in where we went. Also, having an almost one year old made the trip that much more adventerous. I'll post pictures later. I still haven't gotten through all of the pictures.

So, that's where we've been instead of plugging along at home. I even went so far as to turn off my phone and leave it off the entire week we were gone, except once just to check in to make sure that everything was fine back at the Sanctuary (which it was). It's nice to get away for awhile. With all the turmoil we have experienced over the past year with health scares, hospital stays, death, and general stresses of running a sanctuary, it was nice to get away.

I will admit that going on vacation with a baby is a lot more difficult than going on vacation when it's just you to worry about. I can say that I didn't come back from the Black Hills as relaxed or as refreshed as I had hoped but it was still worth every minute of being out there.

Now that we are back, I can focus my energies on the Sanctuary. I hope to begin working on some fundraiser ideas. But if you have any, I'd love to hear them. We might not be able to get to them all right away, but I love hearing about them and adding them to the list of activities we'll do some day.  If you have ideas, you can leave them in the comments, email us at borderlandshorsesanctuary@yahoo.com, or leave a comment on our Facebook page.  I think I need to hear/see some ideas to really get my fundraiser ideas flowing in my little head.

The horses seemed to enjoy my time away. Only the hard keepers came up to greet me when I called for them last night. Stinkers that they are, they only wanted their nightly grain (I know where I stand with them).  :-) 

Bo is still too thin for my liking but I think 24x7 access to pasture and grain help some. I need to schedule an appointment with the vet to have him examined before winter. Unforutnately, work has me so buried that I'm finding it difficult to take time off during the day to haul him to the vet. Weekends are just as jammed packed. So maybe in a couple of weeks with a bit more pasture time and more grain, Bo will fill out a little more before I haul him anywhere.

I will try to get a video of the horses one of these nights when I call for them to come in. Last night was fun to watch all 10 heads pop up from the pasture and watch what I was doing. Luckily the hard keepers knew the routine and came up but the rest decided to be buggers and stay out. I don't blame them.

Luckily we got rain Saturday night (we beat the storm home). So now we have at least some moisture in the pasture. I was starting to worry but with as much rain as we got the other night, we should be ok. I need to get out and start doing some serious weed spraying both in the drylot and the pasture. The pasture has thistles and the drylot has those blasted hard cockleburs that hurt when you pull them out of the manes and tails. I want to get rid of them before they go to seed. So, it looks like my relaxing time has come and gone and we will be hard at it getting ready for winter to set in. I hate even thinking about winter but there's so much to be done before it sets in. So if you're bored one day, stop on out and I'll put you to work. We have a wide assortment of tasks that need to be done!