Nov 18, 2018 | horse stuff
On November 3 we fell back for daylight savings time, which means the usual four pm feeding time becomes “three” by our human clocks, and something approaching later than that by the natural ones since the daylight gets shorter and shorter each day. Add to...
Nov 11, 2018 | horse stuff
Last week I blogged that we had most of the hay we need for the winter, and I anticipate getting the last load next week. Well, we had our first freeze of the season (no freeze watch, but hey the National Weather Service forgets about us all the time) and that means...
Nov 6, 2018 | life, writing
At the encouragement of several of my author friends, I’ve created a Patreon to allow me yet another venue to share my writing and music with you. What is Patreon? You can pledge a certain amount each month (even just $1) and I’ll provide you with...
Nov 4, 2018 | horse stuff, life
This past summer in the Ozarks we had a really bad drought. While the rain has certainly picked up in the last month or so, the news reports in early October were all about farmers selling off cattle and worried that they wouldn’t be able to feed them. Not only...
Sep 23, 2018 | horse stuff
I’ve never dealt with colic before. I’ve seen it on tv shows, heard about it, read about it in Equus, but I’d never really actually dealt with it in all of it’s down, rolling, scary realness. Last year my filly Firefly had a bit of gas colic....
Sep 22, 2018 | horse stuff
I finally did it! Checked the budget and decided to get my girl SmartPaks. You see, Fortune (my older mare) gave me a horrible scare that I’ll blog about tomorrow this week. And I realized, the way that she’d been eating probably wasn’t the best for...
Sep 21, 2018 | horse stuff
I’ve been blessed when it comes to Fortune. Though I’ve had her since she was 3 months old, and she turned 19 last month, we’ve never had many major issues. An abscessed tooth when she was 2ish, some thrush when she was stalled, but for the most part...