Hooves abounding

I have been dying to post for a long time now but as you know, our computer has been down.

But :chuckles evilly: I now once more have the power!!

We just recently got a second horse; well okay, we recently got another boarder. :)

Ladies and gentlemen please welcome Jazzy.

Jazzy is an ex-racehorse who has been forgotten in somebody's back pasture for about five years. She's 18 years old 15.3 hands tall and is a beautiful dark bay. While she is pretty she is also full of bad habits. She cribs, meaning she will grab on to any surface she can and suck huge gulps of air, which can cause colic and other disorders. She also is extremely barn-sour and herd-bound. She head tosses, is disrespectful of your space and likes to spook at nothing to see what you will do.

But despite all of that I still like her. :) She is a very aristocratic animal and is a ham for the camera. B#3 and I do ride around together in the pasture and maybe someday we can actually take her on the trails in the 98 acres.

~B#2

To everything there is a season

Fall is my favorite season. I don't know why. I suppose most people would say that Christmas is their favorite season but not me. I do love Christmas, don't get me wrong. But I just love fall. The colors are so wonderfully vivid and the air is so crisp. I could go on but I think pictures speak much better than I can.

We are back!!!

After two aggravating weeks of knowing our computer had a sort of virus and then finally getting it in the shop....we got it back and fixed today. I know many of you have commented about waiting for there to be a new post. Sorry it has taken so long. Lots of good pictures were taken while we waited for our computer to come home to us so I will try tomorrow to get a real post on here. B#2 is hoping to start her own blog so that I can have mine back, but we shall see since that means I will need to keep everyone posted more often:) So until tomorrow....

Day #2

Hee, hee. I couldn't think of any other title. :)

Peaches is doing better today. Last night we gave her some "horsey Tylenol", put some DMSO on her leg and wrapped it in a splint boot. This morning I had to get up at 6:30 so I would have time to take care of the animals and still have time to get ready for church but I did pretty much the same thing except I first bathed her leg with soap and water to get the DMSO off, then I soaked her leg in an Epsom salt solution for 20 minutes; following it up with more DMSO, putting the splint boot back on and giving her another dose of "Tylenol". It's actually something called Butte but its basically just Tylenol for horses; it numbs the pain for them. It's interesting trying to get her to take it. :) You give it to the horse orally so you have to keep their head still while shoving a huge syringe towards the back of the throat, squirting it quickly and then hoping that you got it far enough back to keep them from spitting it out. Fun, fun, fun.

She was looking great by mid-afternoon. The swelling has gone down, she'd been putting weight on it and you can touch her leg without her flinching.
Tomorrow we're going to try doing nothing but the DMSO and seeing how she does because she is healing up very quickly.

In case you're wondering what in the world DMSO is I'll give you a quick fill in.
DMSO is a hot/cold liniment that you put on sore joints. I don't know what the DMSO stands for though. It's really weird putting it on her because you can actually feel the heat right through your glove. That stuff gets hot! and then if you rub it in long enough then it will suddenly feel really cold. You do have to be really careful with it though; if you get it on you then it seeps into the pores on your skin and you end up tasting garlic for a week. When you open up the jar you smell a disgustingly overpowering smell of garlic. I like the smell of garlic but... not quite that much. :)

We will still have to keep off of her for about two weeks still but....guess what?
We just might, might being the key word here, be getting another horse! Miss Jennifer is looking at a couple of free horses, an Arabian, a Tennessee Walker/Freisan cross, and a thoroughbred. So who knows what will happen around here!

I'll try to write again tomorrow to let you know how Peaches is faring.

~B#2

No hoof, no horse

The saying no hoof, no horse is a very old but very true saying. Horses' legs are very delicate and they can be hurt easily.

Yesterday morning I noticed that our dear Peaches seemed to be favoring her left front leg. I examined it carefully but couldn't find anything wrong with it so I decided to just keep an eye on it. This morning when I went out to take care of the animals I took one look at Peaches and knew something was wrong. She was holding her front left leg up, the pastern and fetlock were visibly swollen and she trembled with pain every time you touched her leg. I gave her some extra hay to keep her from trying to move and then went in to call her owner, Miss Jennifer.

Miss Jennifer came a little later and with her she brought three friends of hers; all experienced horsemen. They gave her a very in-depth examination and decided that she either has a serious sprain, she twisted her fetlock or she has a fracture somwhere. They suggested soaking her leg in an epsom salt solution twice a day for 30 minutes and putting a liniment on as well. Then seeing how she was in about three or four days. If Peaches doesn't start recovering in about four days then we will call the vet to come and take a look at her and probably take some x-rays.

I really can't figure out how she could have hurt herself. She been in our little fenced pasture where there aren't any holes or anything. And I don't think she has been running around.

So hopefully she will be better in about two weeks.
I'll keep you up-dated on her.

~B#2

Nothing in particular

Shame on me, I haven't been blogging as often as I should be.

Things have been busy way out here in the boonies Er, I meant to say Sheridan. :)
School has started, well actually it's been 'started' for about three weeks now but I've been so busy with it that I haven't had time to tell you (Sorry!). I'm in eleventh grade this year; HURRAY! one more year and then I will be done....done for good....done,done,done. Did I mention that I would be done? Math is as math usually is: not fun, boring, hard and ummm...it's math! I am really enjoying my Language arts though. So that makes up for the math a little bit

Okay so you've probably noticed that I'm in a quirky mood today. :) Everybody's gone except me, B#3 and B#4. Everyone else went into town. I'm very much a homebody and prefer to stay here whenever I can. But... I got a little bored so I told myself that I would do some blogging.

For a couple weeks now I have been asking mom to let me change the blog look. She's contemplating it, which usually means that she's hoping I'll get tired of waiting and give up.
I need a change, or maybe I just want a change, I don't know yet. But I found a really nice new look. Do you think we should change? Or would that be too....changed?

Change of subject for now. :)
One thing I really, really have been wanting (yes this is a want not a need) to do is to start raising rabbits again. While we do still have three rabbits left it's just not the same as raising rabbits. I've been raising rabbits for five years now; before we sold our rabbits we had around 21 and we've had over 45 different rabbits over the years. When I stopped it just felt like something was missing in life. I just really miss seeing all my rabbits in the morning jumping up at their doors waiting for breakfast, getting them ready for shows, waiting for the does to kindle, going nuts over trying to figure out all those pedigrees etc. etc. I could start raising them again; mom's fine with it (at least, I'm pretty sure she is) But I'll have to wait a while until I have sufficient funds to start again. I sold all of my rabbit stuff so I now need cages, nestboxes, feed, and of course the rabbits! B#4 wants to start rabbits again as well but we are both looking at different breeds. I would looove to start raising English spot rabbits. They are pet, show, meat and pelt rabbits; they're medium sized, gentle and the kits grow fast.
B#4 is looking at raising Rhinelanders. They're a lot like the spots only a bit bigger. I tried to post pics of them but failed my mission. Maybe some other time.

Are you asleep yet?

You could always exit this site if my musings are boring you. Hee, hee.

Peaches is doing great. Of the late we girls have been riding her bareback with just a halter and lead rope. It's been really fun. Have you ever ridden bareback in the rain? Okay, go ahead and laugh, but that's what I did yesterday. It wasn't pouring or anything but I'm sure a more sensible person would have at least put a coat on (I forgot mine). :D

I can't think of anything else to write about right now so I shall end here.

Have you noticed how I can never, ever seem to write a short post? I just have to much to say I guess.

Okay I really am going this time. :)

~B#2