More despooking

Georgia Power is out to get me!! Luckily God is on my side.

So.. yesterday I had the new truck (well, new to me, and still not yet paid for) and I took the boys to Ashland to test it out. It drives awesome!!! Anyways, when we left it was chaotic at home... smoke from the neighbors fire, GA power cutting limbs on the road, and what sounded like metal being shredded at the other neighbors. Well, apparently, LUCKILY while we were gone, GA Power came and cut the limbs along our power lines. Which is down the driveway and in the front yard. So when we got home, luckily before Freddie got there, I had to stop the trailer in the driveway and clear all the branches before we could pull in. It took me about 20 minutes! Ugh.... 

So anyways, point being... that this morning, God was looking out for me and the boys again. Luckily I had a later start to my day. Because when I woke up GA Power was back again! And cutting again. They opened the pasture gate, drove right in, left the gate open, and then dropped the shredder and two guys. The two guys were moving limbs over to the shredder and then the truck came back and they started shredding... right between the barn and the arena/round pen. Thank God that I didn't have to turn the boys out (or hadn't already turned them out and left) because they would have gotten silly and Danny probably would have re-injured himself in the mud. I'm a little irritated that they just made themselves at home. I'm going to call and discuss this with them. What if my horses had been out?! And gotten loose? Or hurt themselves because they were shredding right next to them?? But like I said, God was looking out for me, so... it all ended well. They finished before I had to leave so I was able to turn them out. Safely!

Unfortunately I didn't get a ride or even a hand walk in today. :( 

 

God is Good!

So today was a good day! Mike and I went sailing this morning and the weather was chilly but it was fun. Then I came home and went to visit Gramma and also got to see Keri, Kate and Matthew. Gramma is looking and acting more like her normal self. 

Then I had enough time to sneak in a short bareback ride at home. 

 

Ulcer scoping day

So.... today was a good day.  Mostly.

Dan got scoped this morning for ulcers which means that he couldn't eat anything for 16 hours or drink anything for 8 hours. So..... I fed them dinner last night and a big flake of alfalfa and then I had to lock them in their stalls with nothing to eat. They were so mad. I felt terrible for Fleck too, as he had to suffer too. Anyways... Poor Dan. He was so mad last night when I went to take away his water that he was hanging his head over the stall door and just literally biting the air! I'm so sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry!!!

So this morning we hauled over to Halfshire for the scoping clinic. I didn't give him his reserpine so that we could do a neuro test since Dr. Gillis had mentioned that he looked "loose" at his last visit. And he kind of acted weird that one day in the pasture.

So anyways, Dr. Elliott looked at him and thought he looked sound and he wasn't sore over his muscle tears. Yay! But when we went to put him on the lunge for a quick little trot he went up and was being stupid. So we drugged him slightly. Only, it ended up not being slightly... we had to use the whip to get him to trot. So then we did the neuro part when he was a bit more awake. It wasn't terrible and could have easily have been lazy warmblood and/or drugs. But then Dr. Elliott did the tail pull. He almost pulled Dan off his feet!! Yikes! And... about 2 minutes after that when he walked back into the barn, he got spooky for some reason and his tail went straight up in the air, he got tall, and he spooked. So... he wasn't that drunk. Sigh... So we're submitting blood to see what that says. Hopefully it's not EPM. Good grief Dan. Although I suppose.... you might as well as get it all out in one fell swoop. If you're out of work, at least it's all at once. :) (hee hee.. He kept calling him Ralph!... Wreck it Ralph sounds about right!)

So then we scoped him. He had mild ulcers. Not a ton, but a handful. Grade 1 mostly, maybe one or two grade 2's. SO.... yeah. But really, considering the stall rest, the rehab, the lack of grass and turn out and being able to run, etc, etc... I was surprised it wasn't worse. So... we'll treat him for that.
I stayed around to help and watch the others so by the time we were done, Dan was long since unsedated. I gave him his reserpine after he was done, along with his alfalfa cubes and alfalfa hay

 so he was a happy camper on our ride.

Is it really November?

It was such a beautiful day today!! 70+ degrees and gorgeous out. Luckily I was able to get in a ride and I didn't die.

I thought I might. The deer are out and both Fleck and Dan were all freaked out today in the round pen. They kept staring into the woods. I decided to try to be brave and leave Fleck to get grass since I was running short on time. Dan was brave until I tried to load him and then he lost his marbles and freaked out. So I decided to go back and get Fleck for moral support. Dan hit halfway to the pasture and really freaked out - rearing, pawing, spinning, kicking up my fresh rye grass. Ugh... Then Fleck luckily came up from the front but wouldn't get close enough to let me halter him at first. Meanwhile Dan is still convinced the deer are going to eat him. Sigh...

I finally managed to get Fleck and get them both on the trailer. And then Dan was fine. We had a pleasant ride at Ashland with Kelli and Arwyn, although Dan was a bit amped up. He didn't do anything but he was highly tempted. So... not many photos. It was such a pretty day though. I'm sad I didn't have time for Fleck too. :( Poor guy... he's putting up with so much because of Dan's injury. I owe him some big treats!

Still walking

Holy Moly... Where's the Ace?!!

So... it rained a bit last night... and that brought in the cold front. Today dawned a VERY cold and VERY windy day. So bad that I almost didn't turn them out, but since they were in all day yesterday and all night (because of the supposed rain) I felt obligated. But I did ace Dan before I turned him out. On top of his reserpine. It didn't help. He was still a bit naughty in the arena. Oops. :(

But I did man up and decide to go ride. I was smart enough to ace him again for our ride. I only gave him a little bit, but figured it would be safer for both of us.

And he was pretty good. There was a little lead straight up at the beginning of the ride and two startles, but... nothing more. So yay!

I couldn't feel my cheeks by the end of the ride it was so windy and cold, but it was a good ride!

Mad props to the jailbird for behaving!


 (no picture of our ride because I was too afraid to take my hands of the reins. ;) Ha. And I had on my poofy winter gloves which don't cooperate with my phone).

So it didn't rain....

Which meant we got to ride. He was super!