Weekend is Here!

 

Beautiful day and not riding! We have been busy doing housekeeping chores, but not necessarily in the house, but I'm doing that, too.

Got up at 6:30, slept in! The morning was delightful, everybody spent the night outside. This was the second night that the little guys stayed out all night. After they all finished I turned them back out. Skip continues the bad habit of not going out in the pasture. He's quick at backing up through the gate, or turning around and getting back into the dry paddock.

On Thursday it rained so hard, we got over an inch of rain in about an hour, that everybody stayed in for the night. It was too wet and muddy for them to be out. They were happy to stay in. The night was a starry night, Moon still bright, but too wet for them to be laying around in the grass.

Saturday morning they seemed to spend the entire morning hanging out in the run-in shed. Usually there is no room for KC, only Skip, but they were in there, in the shade, dozing.

Tom washed all the cars this morning and I cleaned out the big trailer (full of stink bugs!) and the truck. The truck was used as a 'farm truck' and not cleaned out since before LAST April. Not even after the three bales of hay in the back seat in October. Also full of stink bugs, live and dead. Tools, trash, brochures, and just plain junk was in there. And dog hair. Stink bugs stuck in dog hair.

The bugs were everywhere in the trailer; in the bed, windows, between the blankets, sheets, couch cushions, shower stall, cabinets, blinds. Everywhere. I'm washing ALL the blankets, sheets, towel, everything. What a scourge!

Tom ran into town to get more fuel. Just this week gasoline has gone down 10 cents a gallon. Still close to $4 but at least it is not going up. Takes more fuel to mow this place, we'll have to think about a different container for diesel and gasoline. The yard looks great, and he's mowing the future pasture (once we fence it in) to keep the poisonous weeds to a minimum.