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Oct. 30th, 2012 07:43 pmLike a drowned rat...I do believe I've used that phrase in the past 24 hours. Don't think I'll be using it quite so lightly in future, as I now have a visual reference. I had to remove a real drowned rat from the toilet in the tack room bathroom this afternoon..ewwwww. Sue found it and just about fainted; couldn't bring herself to pick it up, so she made me do it. heh. I am not the least bit squeamish about such things, as long as I have a pair of gloves.
Poor drowned rat, I gave it a decent funeral fling over the bank.
I have such a fun filled life. LOL.
It was another rainy day here, but I'm not whining. Compared to what all my friends on the east coast are enduring, a little rain is nothing at all. I hope you're all safe. My thoughts are with you.
The horses got out today; our paddocks are staying dry and the footing is great. What a huge difference it makes having them redone. Now the days when we can't put the horses out will be a lot fewer. Last year they were so muddy after a big rain we couldn't use them half the winter. It's going to make life a lot easier for everyone.
I'm keeping my eye on Kyra; she's getting old and because she's a thoroughbred, she is hard to keep weight on. She's in good health, but I'm a bit concerned that she's too thin. We've started giving her some alfalfa cubes at night and she loves them. We soak the cubes in hot water and they get nice and soft and smell like new cut grass. She gets lots of local hay too; our hay is really good quality hay from a farmer who knows how to make great hay. Kyra is a rescued horse and I have no idea what her life was like before she ended up in that field the SPCA rescued her from, so it's not surprising that she has a few quirks. Lately she's taken to standing in her stall with her bum to the front wall and rocking back and forth; tonight she was doing that, and then biting her own leg! That's just weird. Maybe she's getting the horsy equivalent of dementia. Hope not.
Back to work in ICU tomorrow.
Poor drowned rat, I gave it a decent funeral fling over the bank.
I have such a fun filled life. LOL.
It was another rainy day here, but I'm not whining. Compared to what all my friends on the east coast are enduring, a little rain is nothing at all. I hope you're all safe. My thoughts are with you.
The horses got out today; our paddocks are staying dry and the footing is great. What a huge difference it makes having them redone. Now the days when we can't put the horses out will be a lot fewer. Last year they were so muddy after a big rain we couldn't use them half the winter. It's going to make life a lot easier for everyone.
I'm keeping my eye on Kyra; she's getting old and because she's a thoroughbred, she is hard to keep weight on. She's in good health, but I'm a bit concerned that she's too thin. We've started giving her some alfalfa cubes at night and she loves them. We soak the cubes in hot water and they get nice and soft and smell like new cut grass. She gets lots of local hay too; our hay is really good quality hay from a farmer who knows how to make great hay. Kyra is a rescued horse and I have no idea what her life was like before she ended up in that field the SPCA rescued her from, so it's not surprising that she has a few quirks. Lately she's taken to standing in her stall with her bum to the front wall and rocking back and forth; tonight she was doing that, and then biting her own leg! That's just weird. Maybe she's getting the horsy equivalent of dementia. Hope not.
Back to work in ICU tomorrow.
