@lcertuche I'm gonna have to try it. Do you need an open trough style feeder to use it though? That would be the next issue is how to get it to them. I can't imagine putting it in a regular style feeder would be very effective. I'll have to investigate this further...
And yes, FEM, there is so much extra work!!
Well, Cowboy and Coyote are slated to get here this afternoon! I'll be leaving the office just before 3 and have to swing by the farm I'm babysitting right now. SB who is helping me called and said that the one old horse looked funny. He's choked several times before, and so all his food is soaked, and he can't have any exposure to hay (he has no teeth either)... he REALLY shouldn't be out with healthy horses only because they can't have any hay at all because he'll try to eat it, which is bad for the rest of the herd that she's got. But she's one of those crazies who takes on projects she probably shouldn't have (it's technically a boarded horse, but STILL...), and she doesn't have the capacity to really support a horse like this. So I've got to stop by there before I go home, and then hustle into the barn to get everything set up for the new boys. I'm going to throw them in the paddock tonight because they'll be getting here close enough to dark that I don't want to introduce everyone just yet. They (and I!) need more daylight for that. That'll happen tomorrow more than likely.
So I need to hustle home (probably should get gas at the shell before I head home, it's 5c off Thursdays...) and get the stalls cleaned of the leaves that have blown themselves in, get the buckets scrubbed and set up, and get their name tags put on their stalls. I should clean the feed chart board and rewrite the others since there have been some changes and it's gotten a bit messy. But we'll see how much time I have left and how cold I am when I get to it. The secondary question is how long will it take my friends to load the horses. They haven't been off their farm in several years. But I've been talking to them and telling them they're going to come live with me, so hopefully that has helped! It always seems to in every other situation I've dealt with.
Tomorrow is going to be busy. It'll start with getting up and wolfing breakfast so that I can get down to ES's farm to feed. Then I have to zip to yoga. Then I have to drive over to Dover to try on the pair of pants they are holding for me. Then I really should go to the grocery store, and I might end up needing to stop at the office if my last amazon package has arrived (apparently I selected Carrier Pigeon shipping method...). If not, the BF will just get a bonus gift after the holiday. Then I need to scoot home, and figure out how to add 2 horses to a herd of 3 safely, then get to wrapping more gifts because I've still got about a dozen things to wrap for the BF. And by that time I'll probably need to head back to ES's farm again to do the evening chores. Thank goodness SB is taking care of the mucking and such because I don't know how I'd get it all done otherwise!
Saturday is just farm chores, and stopping by the BF's cousin's house. I'm hoping to use the farm chores as a reason for not staying long. And a reason for not going to church that evening. We'll see if we can get out of it for another year. Sunday is going to be BUSY. I'll have ES's farm to attend to morning and evening, our horses to take care of, plus our gifts to open, then a trip to his parent's house, and then a trip to his uncle's house. I'm not real thrilled about needing to do all of that, but it is what it is.
Saturday I might also try to stop at a frame shop and look at getting glass replaced in two pictures (need to upgrade to UV glass), and then get a print that I have framed. I've had it for years and can't wait to get it on the wall. I've been saving my gift cards from the office "christmas gift" for the past several years, so I should have enough to afford some really nice framing now. I think I have close to $400 saved. Hopefully that's more than enough.
Got sucked into buying a couple Groupons today. They had a sale (which only half of the groupons I bought were eligible for...
), but I did get $15.00 off a groupon that was $99 (of course, $1.00 short of the $30.00 discount level), which is for an evening flight over the city with photographs for two. That sounded like a lot of fun! Also picked up a groupon for a museum that we have wanted to go to, and for a wine tasting at a vineyard we've wanted to try as well. Good deals, but I was annoyed I couldn't use the promo code on the other two as well (they were too cheap for a discount apparently...).
Suspect that's about all the news from this neck of the woods...
