Storms

Talk about the calm before the storm. After getting done with the paying job, I rushed home so that I  would have time to grab the horses I  needed for the farrier. It was super windy, like crazy windy. I hadn't remembered it being that windy earlier but I'd been so wrapped up with the paying job that I hadn't really noticed. Least to say the paying job is putting me to the test so there's not much left of me at the end of the day. I think that's part of the reason there's so little to report. I'm exhausted and I'm doing minimal chores.


But back to yesterday. We trimmed up King and Lightening. Lightening needs more work on trimming. It's so hard to know a horse's past. The feet tell a lot and even though Lightening may have been cared for (he's my personal horse), certain aspects were neglected, like teaching him to stand and accept trimming and rasping. I can't really say too much because there's a couple in the herd that can't get their feet done because they were never taught, and that's my fault.


But all in all, both did well. King's feet are doing well. He's been lame for awhile with bruising but it seems like the bruising is minimal this time around. Because there's a nip in the air, we opted to forego the shoes like we'd talked about last month. We won't have another trim scheduled until November. Everyone is looking pretty good so we pushed it out until November.


While we were working on the horses, Mike went up to put a sheet of Ondrua on the hay barn. When we were forced to quit this weekend because of the mosquitoes, we'd had to leave the vent hole open. We'd run out of screws to put the purlins in so that was the end of that. But Mike got more screws (who knew you'd need more than a 5 pound box of screws for this project, and that's just for the purlins). But the hole is covered. And I am sure glad Mike got it done last night, even if he did have to fight the wind.


About 11pm the wind picked up even more and a storm blew through the Sanctuary. We missed the reported tornados but the weather was bad enough to send me into a tizzy. After being a half a mile away from a tornado, I'm a little bit more freaked out about storms. But after an hour the storm had passed and all was right with the world again.


I didn't see any damage this morning but it's hard to see much in the dark. I am SO not ready for morning chores in the dark. If only I could have morning and evening chores in the daylight for a few months more. Having only one month where the sun is actually up when I do chores is just not enough!


We still have lots to do but I dont' see me getting any of it done. I need to bring Junior and Lace home either Thursday or Friday depending on the paying job's workload. And it's time I have to start feeding the ponies hay again. I am NOT looking forward to that. I was hoping to hold off on feeding hay for at least a couple more weeks but I don't see that happening.


Because I'll be running around, I probably wont' be able to do the Thursday noon Live session on non-horse related but sanctuary related topics. Either I'll be at the paying job or picking up horses (and my data plan is about out of data again...how does that happen?!)


I have more good news coming but still need to find more time to share it. Excited to release the new layout of our website but it needs a lot more work. But "steady as she goes" is how it's going to have to be for awhile.