Monday, Monday (and a little bit of Sunday)

Sunday and Monday were pretty hectic. For one thing, I had to prepare for a rerun of this on Tuesday:


One big thing that I got accomplished was bringing the barn kitties in to the vet to get spayed.



They weren't too happy, but they did great. They spent the night on the back porch and will stay there until the weather blows over. They don't need to be extra-cold on top of their surgeries.

Now, every single animal (except for the mares, of course) are now fixed, except Milton.


He'll go in to get neutered next week.

Shhh...don't tell him!

We don't need any baby anything around here for quite some time. The grown animals are big enough babies by themselves.

Bambi might be the biggest baby of them all. She comes trotting up for her grain, or her blanket, or to be petted or brushed.

She's one of them "needy" girls.

Speaking of needy girls, Paula got to try out her new saddle blanket yesterday. I went with a Taylor Collection wool blanket with a built-in cut back wool felt lining.

I will only ever use it on her, so it will eventually conform to her back and hopefully be super comfy for her.

You can see here why she needed the shoulder guard as well!

She's so long that I have to have a really large blanket for her, and yet she's narrow, so the front doesn't fit her. I hope next year I'll be able to splurge a bit and get her an adjusta-fit turnout.

On top of getting the girls fixed, preparing for the upcoming weather, going to the chiropractor, and getting Eddie entered in another futurity last minute (and getting some really cool news in return which I promise to share soon), the horses managed to completely destroy some of their fencing.

Swine horses.

Thankfully no one was hurt. I hate these panels anyway--they are just temporary until I can get the right fencing in, but for some reason the horses don't want to wait. I should have the north side entirely re-fenced shortly after the new building arrives. For some reason, the horses don't understand.

Patience is not one of their virtues.

For example, they decided to play football with one of the tank heaters.

Out of morbid curiousity, before I threw it away, I decided to plug it in. It WORKED!!! The casing on the top is cracked and the rods all bent, but it worked. Now, if it malfunctions it's not a big deal as this is a second, extra tank, so I went ahead and left it. I'd never leave it if it was a primary source of water--I would have went and got a new one. I just thought it was amazing that it managed survived the wrath of these heathens.

Welcome to the jungle,

We've got fun 'n games.

We got everything you want

Honey we know the names....