Sunday evening

This was a busy weekend. We drove to the farm Saturday afternoon. Mike, myself, and our Grandson. After feeding everyone, and giving shots to 2 horses fighting infections, and wrapping the leg of one developing proud flesh, I started filling in sink holes by the ponds, with help from grandson, and Mike started spraying round up on the weeds along the fence line. When Mike was done, he came out and helped fill holes til it was time to start the grill for dinner. We can't work on fences until we get some rain. The ground is just too hard to dig post holes, even with the auger.

This morning, Mike started mowing close to the barn with the yard tractor, and I mowed along the rabbit and chicken pens, as well as back by the feed room, and by the G pig cage. The belt broke on the tractor, so Mike finished up with the small mower, and I built two cavalette. These are small jumps, with Xs at each end. Depending on how they are positioned, you can adjust the height from 6" to about 18".

After lunch, Grandson went with his uncle to see Speed Racer, and to Burger King after the movie with his other Grandma.

Mike and I fed the horses, and I soaked the foot of one of my boarder's horses. She has finally started eating. I was afraid we would lose her. She wouldn't eat, and she dropped weight. She is about 30 years old, and has an abscess in one hind hoof. I started soaking the feed in water, to make mush, and she is eating. I gave her an extra feeding today to try and make up for the several days when she didn't eat much. Her teeth are so worn down that she can't eat grass very well, and we have been keeping her separate from the other horses so that she would have plenty of time to finish her feed, if she would eat.

I spent some time filling holes, and then I started spraying herbicide on the "rattle box bush/trees that are sprouting up everywhere Mike has brush hogged. When I ran out of spray, I quit for the day. We started packing up, and getting ready to return to town, but we needed to wait on grandson to make it back.