Sunday 13 April 2008

This looks as if it is going to turn into a weekly blog, it started out beginning of last year as a Photo A Day, but I suppose I am still here and it is nice to have this sort of diary to look back on. I put Taxes out for a run a fe days ago and he is not partial to mud so didnt get many chances at getting a decent shot of him. I thought this one was cute, he was looking over to where the mares were and lifting his lip LOL.

I got three more round bales this week for the girls and Dosie in the field, and this one collapsed quite easily much to the delight of Wiggle who decided it would make a nice soft dry place to take a sleep LOL. Later on I saw Dosie and Lori taking a sleep on it too.
Well after having those glorious days of sunshine and 50s and 60s we are expecting a freeze tonight and have barely made it out of the 30s for the past 3 days.

On Tuesday Taxes will be 1 year old. Can't believe it, it had snowed the day before and was freezing, we had three inches of slushy snow on the ground and I was in the barn at 1.30am helping get him cleaned up and dried and blanketed and finding the milkbar.

The local art exhibition starts tomorrow, we dropped off all our pictures on Friday and Saturday and I didnt get to go to the reception this afternoon as I was feeling a bit off (the cold weather didnt help). So now I need to get myself woken up and get some work done.

Hope you all had a great weekend. (((((Hugs))))))

Lori
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Windy Day today

I am getting my post in early today, as I have missed a few again. This is a picture of a starling that I saw while walking outside the other day, I had to crop it quite drastically because it was pretty far away but I liked the way the feathers were glistening.

Yesterday I posted on my other blog http://loriscritters.blogspot.com/ a picture of one of the little hawks I have noticed flying around here recently. I dont think it is the same as the one I saw a week or so ago and only got one shot of it before it flew off. Check it out and see if you can identify it for me please???

I also posted a pic on there of my View from my kitchen window. Would you believe those 5 mares have completely anihilated that whole round bale (Cat Piglette and the 3 fillies) already in 6 days. I am still not really happy about having it out there because of potential mould which I know is present, but they have really enjoyed it and are still eating their grain normally and are much more content than standing in complete boredom. It rained all night so it is a mess out there this morning and after getting to the 60s yesterday we will be in the low 40s today with 25 - 30mph winds again!!!! I just dont have any horse pics to post because they are so muddy but will try to add a few mud shots a bit later to give everyone their horse fix.

Hope all is well with everyone (((((Hugs)))))) I have finally resolved myself to the fact that I am never going to catch up and will just do what I can to keep in touch with you all LOL, but know that you are always in my thoughts.

Lori

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Oh My Kingdom for A Roundbale

Well here are the infamous roundbales!! The one is right against the fence and Girl Sonny hogs it all to herself and the other 4 have to battle over the other one LOL.

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Piglette, Cat and the threee 2 year olds have only one between them and seem to cope with the pecking order okay but I couldnt get far enough away to get a better shot, I will try in the morning, although it is raining tonight so dont know how wet it will all be in the morning. You can just see the fillies' ears sticking up on the other side of this one LOL.

They have been having a ball with it and after two days made inroads onto the size of them LOL but we will see what they look like tomorrow.

This is going to be a short post today, not much happening. I am continuing to feel better every day and hope this gloomy weather doesnt hang around too long.

Lori's hoof looks good but I am going to keep her in with the boot on to keep it clean for a few more days so that I know it has closed up and wont get reinfected.

Hope everyone is well ((((((Hugs)))))))

Lori
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The View Today of Our Estate with Horses in Sunny Pastures Next to the Lake

Okay so that is a fib, but it sounds great and is not entirely untrue because we have all three of those LOL. The horses spent the night out last night and we didnt get any rain until this evening and then it wasnt too much so they are staying outside tonight again. I have some round bales of hay coming soon to throw out in the fields so that the horses will have something to occupy them and get a bit more nutrition as hay is becoming scarce and I dont know how we are going to cope this year because all the farmers are planting corn instead of hay because the corn prices have risen so much with the advent of ethanol!!!! Here is a picture of a round baling machine so you can get an idea of how big they are if you dont already know.

I would normally never feed round bales to my horses (The ones we get are very big, weigh about 700lbs where the normal square ones only weigh about 50 or 60 lbs here) because they can have a tendancy to have mould in them which is not good for horses and that is if they have been kept covered and indoors. These havent been so lucky but the horses will stomp all over them pick out what they want to eat and have a reasonable dry place to lay when it starts spreading out. I dont have any pregnant mares either because mouldy hay can be really dangerous for them and their babies.

It is going to be a rollercoaster ride of weather over the next few days, I just dont know how to dress each day, just look outside and make up my mind LOL.

Keeping our heads above water each day, hope you all have a wonderful weekend. ((((Hugs))))

Lori

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