Recent content by AL

Thanks! I have been trying to get back into the swing of SS things.... with my mom being bedridden / dependent for care, and my dad pushing 79yrs old, then me working 50-60hrs a week, training in the gym 5 hours a week and doing my own training on the weekends.... I just don't have much much...

Was wondering if this was even still here....... I am still insanely busy and still a garden slacker. Still haven't fixed the raggedy chicken yard gate, and now my new dog (as of late April) has torn out the bottom of the fence in several places (egg sucker). My chickens are going on 4yrs...

I stay crazy busy. crazy mostly. Still working late evenings with the job - 3p-1a or so. Head to my parent's house to help my still bedridden mom, feed my horses (actually do this first, since Buddy takes an hour to eat his grain!), tend to my rabbits, gather eggs, let Buddy out of his...

I actually took Titan (the new horse) to the state forest for the first time today. He was a crackhead instead of a dead head lol. He wasn't spooky or crazy, just enough attitude to be annoying. It would have been fine except there were about 75 other riders there doing an endurance ride, so...

knock knock... anyone home? lol Staying busy with life and loving it. It has been in the 70s and 80s temp wise lately, so I have my garden cranking along. I still have to finish tilling the main part and that is where I am planting peas and corn. My green beans didn't make (about 6 plants)...

Wow it's been a while... and the only thing that has changed is adding more "to do" to my lists! Peas are coming up and I finally got radish and mustard greens planted. Planted my yearly square of never showing carrots. Titan the new horse spent a couple of weeks at the trainer for an...

Staying crazy busy - helping my mom (who is stronger but still bedridden), working with Buddy, working / riding the new horse, cleaning the chicken houses and yards, under the rabbit cages, composting the raised beds, tilling the garden lot, setting "trellis" and planting peas. Gotta go...

Thanks! I took him out to an arena today and we tried a couple of different bits on him and he accepted everything we put on him. He happily traveled around the arena and the milling horses / trailers with his long strides. He trailers like a champ and stood patiently trailered while I talked...

He is perfect for me! He is 15.3hh, a little thin but I can fix that! He is pretty agreeable and when he doesn't want to do something his biggest reaction so far is a swished tail. But don't let him fool you.. he has spunk. He is fast walking, attentive, head up.....just well mannered in his...

AWESOME DAYS!! Yesterday I went with my horse trainer to a town about 2 1/2 hours away and I came back with a horse! He is the sweetest ever! Looks kind of mulish, but I just trail ride so I don't need anything flashy (though he does have some chrome). He is a 12yr old (vet verified)...

our planting dates for garden peas run 1/15 - 2/15. Last year I was right at Valentine's Day, so this year I want to go just a week or so earlier. Still have to keep straw on hand to cover tender plants in the event of frost through March 15 (according to the almanac). Carrots also can be...

The trainer found a mare... but then left state again for a barrel racing event. She will be back tomorrow but I don't know if I will be ready to buy before 1/13 (next payday). Skye had kicked out the wall of one stall joining the hay room and I just patched it. Buddy has destroyed it a little...

I generally do my own shots... but Buddy had to have a tetanus administered by the vet in order to have his wolf teeth and a baby tooth extracted, so I just did it all. Speaking of Buddy... he got into my garden and bit the tops off of all of my cabbages. Jerk. After babying them through...

All drama all the time... becoming a way of life lol - Cabbage turned out great, broccoli not so much. The rabbits like it though - Poppy got out and attacked my little Buff Brahma, Pat. I thought he pecked out her eye, but after a few days of treating it I think she still has her eyeball. Not...

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