Catching Up

Well, I’m finally over whatever weird bug that was and am back into the old routine of standard chores in the middle of winter. The last two nights I’ve put the horses in because the temps were in the subzero temps…again.  I knew  I needed to put everyone in last night because the temps were supposed to be teens below zero but there was very little breeze. Although even with very little breeze, the wind chill is in the twenty below zero mark.  This morning when I went out, there was still very little breeze so even though it was in the teens below zero, it didn’t feel as cold as the morning before when the temps were warmer (haha), single digits below zero and windy. I guess it’s all in your perspective of “cold”.

I was at the vet earlier this week to pick up yet more medicine for our little inside dog, Trouble, and made an appointment for Brego to go in and get his teeth floated.  Hopefully that’s the only reason he’s losing weight but we’ll do a thorough exam to make sure there’s no underlying problems.  He always seems to drop weight about this time every year and I want that problem resolved immediately.

Someone asked me just yesterday about the Sanctuary and mentioned that we have mostly old horses. Unfortunately, at this point in time, the oldest horse we have is Jim at the ripe old age of 26 (which I don’t consider old). We’ve lost all of our really old horses over the past few years and with the hospital bills piling up, we haven’t been able to take in any old warriors like I would desperately love to do. I’m hoping in another year we’ll get out from under these bills and can start back into providing homes for horses.  The average age of the Sanctuary horse is in the teens.  Of course, when I first got into horses, my first horse was “old” at the age of 16. I still chuckle over that. I consider 16 a prime age.

I realized the other day I need to pick a horse for this month’s “Horse of the Month”. Hopefully I’ll be able to post this weekend. I also need to do a 2014 cheat sheet of the horses.  I haven’t taken the camera out to take pictures for a very long time. Everyone is wrapped up in a blanket anyway so there’s not much point in taking pictures to see markings and such unless you want to see a herd of green. I will be SO happy when spring arrives, even when we have to deal with mud.

We are just two months away from our Easter fundraiser and to be honest, I haven’t really started anything. I know I need to be planning but by the end of the day after working all day and coming home to do chores in the dark, I tend to fall asleep about ten minutes after sitting down. Last night was a prime example. While trying to get our son to fall asleep I fell asleep on the couch and ended up sleeping on the couch all night. You know the best part, I didn’t mind one bit. I’ll take a nap wherever I can these days!

I’m hearing mixed reports on the upcoming weather for next week. One time I hear that it’ll be warmer and then the next I hear that it’ll be like this week and in the subzero mark for temps. I’ve given up looking at the weather quite frankly. The only time I really pay any attention is when I see that it’s below zero and even then I sometimes miss that part. Hopefully there are no storms on the horizon because I haven’t paid any attention.

My mind seems to be going in about ten different directions so I apologize for the scattered thoughts. I’ll try to post more later now that I’m feeling better.