It's a beautiful Tuesday morning and I am sitting here at my desk while my students take the STAR test. I can look out my beautiful new windows and see the mountains and trees and blue, blue sky. It surely is a day for riding! Work sure gets in the way of the truly important things in life! Well, I guess I should think of it as: work allows us to do enjoy the really important things in life; afterall, we gotta have hay and horse shoes!
Last Friday, Ziggy came up lame and it seemed to get worse each day. Sunday the farrier came over and diagnosed him and offered to come and help or administer medicine everyday. Lynn is a good doctorer and Ziggy is a pretty good patient, so they are doing fine. He is much better already. In fact last night, after everyone had had a little grass (never enough in their minds)we rode up to feed them a little hay and the boys were running and bucking after the four wheeler! Ziggy was looking smooth and strong and definitely has a powerful looking buck! Indy corkscrewed his neck around so much I think he could cause himself to fall down. I just love to watch them run.
I was sorry to miss the fun on Saturday, but I sure enjoyed Sunday's ride. Good friends, sunshine, and wet blankets--it doesn't get much better than that.
Zigman is much better. Thanks to our new farrier. I will ride him this weekend. We let the horses eat grass for about 30 minutes last night and did not feed hay. This morning they told me all about being undernourished. Tonight I will let them eat for an hour. Jupiter thinks eating grass is competition. I have never seen a horse chew so fast! I had to laugh, made me think of a goat or deer, his jaws was moving so fast. Looking forward to wet blankets this weekend :) ~Lynn
ReplyDeleteWe have two great weekends planned May 22 and Memorial Weekend... I can't wait. We all need a break. Yee Ha here we come.... :)
ReplyDeleteI can hardly wait! I am ready to be off right now.
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