Malfunction

September and October rains are typically cold. This morning's rain is no exception. I'm worried about the horses. I wasn't even considering the rain to be cold. I'm still in summer mode because that's when my daugher was born. My mind is not in full gear yet and I wasn't expecting such a deluge of rain to soak us. As I type this, we are getting a downpour. My brain just isn't in full gear yet. After my son was born, I was in so much pain that I didn't have time to think about the horses. Luckily, this time around, I can but my mind isn't focused like it should be. I'm kicking myself for not either blanketing horses or stalling them for this weather.

My mind is slowly getting back into gear but not fast enough. Fall is such a crazy time that I need to be on my toes when it comes to weather. Any rain now is going to be cold and chill the horses to the bone. Of course they don't choose to stay in the shelters but hopefully at least Rain will go in out of the cold downpour.

I also keep forgetting that I did have major surgery. I wouldn't consider a c-section major surgery but it is. Or at least my body is telling me it is. Before my daughter was born, I bought a couple of rubber mats for one of the stalls. I am going to start buying mats whenever they are on sale (and I have the money). It'll make winter stalling easier on the hard keepers. But Mike unloaded the mats in front of the garage awhile back. I knew this rain was coming so I decided that I would drag them into the barn. Big mistake. I'm hurting from it now. I'm definitely slow on my feet and need to remember to take it slower.

I should be working on paperwork but my mind is still not 100% and I've been pretty much on auto pilot (hence the mistake of not stalling horses today during all this rain). So I can't even focus on paperwork while I have downtime during the day. Instead I just sit and try to focus my brain.

The horses dont' seem to be the horse for wear with my lapse in brain power. I'm getting back into the routine of graining Junior. He'd been at mom and dad's for the last month of my pregnancy (and a good thing because I couldn't walk more than about 10 feet without being in absolute pain). But now that he's home (and I'm not in any back pain), I am back to graining him. I need to figure out a better solution to graining him where I know he's getting what he needs to keep the weight on. He put on a bit of weight while in Madison so I hope I can keep that up. He's definitely going to stress me out this winter in keeping weight on him.

I know we need the rain but I'm wishing I would have had more foresight into today to keep the horses more comfortable. Come on brain, start working. sigh