Rainy Season

I was going to upload pics from last night but blogger seems not like me at the moment.


So we had rain all day yesterday. I had realized the previous night that the pasture near the road was done, or so the horses told me. I realized that Junior is looking really tough. As in, he's lost a LOT of weight and that's my fault. I know that the heat took a toll on him and he lost some weight but I thought putting him in this pasture would be ok. But apparently it wasn't rich so he's dropped even more weight. I walked the pasture last night and I would say that it still has decent grass but it's not the lush grass that Junior needs. So I'm not sure what to do.


I don't want to put him in the other pasture because it won't hold up for as long as I need it if I put him in now. But I don't think he'd do good being on hay and I definitely don't want to start feeding hay in mid August. The horses have only been on this pasture for three weeks (Mayhem was on it longer but didn't eat that much). So I don't really know what to do. I'm working from home at the paying job today so Junior is out and enjoying the lawn. He's been staying close to the red shed and the mares so I'm guessing he's having a grand ol' time.


With the rain last night, when I pulled Junior out to put him in a different pen to eat (because the mares would push him out), he was shivering. Apparently with the cooler rain (everyone else was fine) and the weight loss, he had gotten chilled. So I stalled him and pulled Lace out to keep him company. And because Mayhem is so herd bound (even though she was fine earlier this summer) I had to put her in a different pen so she wouldn't tear up the pasture.


I need to refence where I had the horses in June because the grass is coming back after all this rain. But I don't want the herd on it just yet. I'd rather wait until September to put them back on it...and I don't want them to eat it down so far that we wont' be able to use it next year. I can tell that I sprayed that part of the pasture and the other part I didn't get a chance to spray. It's an obvious distinction. But it's nice to see that what I did, did do some benefit.


The weather is still so cool but there's talk that it'll warm up soon. That would be nice for the grass. I'm out of places for the ponies so I need to figure something else out. I either throw hay (again, don't want to be throwing hay) or figure out where I can set up corral panels that would actually work. I hate moving corral panels around though. it's such a pain.


And now that I am in full swing trying to get stuff done, Mike doesn't feel well. He told me the other night that his heart has been bothering him. It's de javu all over again. I joke that I'm old, but neither of us are 40 yet and he's already head heart surgery and now he's having more problems. So I don't forsee anything getting done around the place until he's feeling better. I think I'm going to have to start taking time off the paying job to get the stuff done and figure out how to do it all on my own. It's frustrating but I guess that's the hand I have been dealt right now.