Great day for a Drive

I had a good drive today up to Berry, KY to go visit Bryan and Oneda Lambert and pick up rabbit feed.  It's always such a pretty drive.  

I enjoyed seeing the storm cellar in the middle of the cow pasture above and also got to see my "hobbit door" as I call it as well just north of North Middletown, below. 

So now I am stocked up on rabbit feed and will likely get more come the show at the end of March.  No new bunnies on this trip!  I am saving that up for the show since it'll be a specialty show for the Dutch. 

Gorgeous weekend that I enjoyed greatly!

Today was actually a NICE day so we enjoyed the great outdoors for a huge chunk of the day.  Lots of pictures to upload.

First ones- Willow

Then a few of the horses.  Yes it's muddy- still.  I don't know if I can even remember a time when it wasn't muddy.  

 The horses are really liking the Himalayan salt lick 

Now even one of Heidi's legs are starting to get puffy.  I gave her some Bute and started her on the hoof supplement.  I know it's from all the mud and moisture.

Enjoyed the walk around the backyard and looking at the creek

I even went through all my baby Bunnies.

Vee's litter:

 Blitzen's litter:

 Presea's last kit

 Iron Tale's remaining two:

Preparing for the Temp crash and winter weather

So with continual rain it's left everything muddy and squishy only today the temps were going to fall out.  Since the ponies were drenched I opened back up their run in, but not before I put a bale of straw down to help the mud. 

 Tessa was first to come inside the run in so she got to clean up all the grass that had grown in there where they couldn't eat it all up.  

Got both girls to go inside.  Heidi's being mean about sharing so I am tempted to put up a gate in the middle so she can't kick Tessa out. 

Then the two got their rain jackets that will help them be able to dry up their fur underneath for when the temps finally hit the bottom 

Storage room cleaning

Jess and I did a bit of cleaning and re-organizing of the storage room. 

Before we started:

Stuff we pulled to go through got packed back into the truck

Along with 4 big bags of trash

Finished project.  much cleaner, more organized and a couple empty extra totes

Winter is Coming!

Early this morning when Dad and Allen woke me up we put the round bale out.  On my walk over I noticed the water tub was skimmed over.  I punched through with my finger so no big deal but guess I had better start thinking about setting up the tank heater and getting a piece of PVC cut for the plug housing.

 Ponies waiting for their hay,  they saw me coming out and were expecting their square bale, and got  their round bale.

Very happy ponies.  Bale 1 of 10 from Eddie.  The girls dug into it. 

Long update

So pictures to come.  Been a long boring hot summer.  Big girls came home August 25th. I did enjoy a few rides since they came home and even Court Day weekend I enjoyed a ride with Kelly.  Then a short bout of abscess lameness with Tessa.  Second ever abscess I have ever had to deal with.  I have been spending still large amounts of time working and then when I do get some down time I just don't want to do anything.  But as of today, it's been so wet in the pasture again that Tess has some cellulitis again.  Poor little mare has had so many issues this year.  A lot of it has stemmed from the stupidly wet pasture.  So I don't know yet how I will resolve these issues.  I wish I could afford to pasture board both mares someplace like Tamarack.  At least Tamarack is up high enough to keep them both dry and Perry is so good to the horses, but $400 a month is a bit too much to spend on both mares.  That is just under 1/3 of what I make in a month total.

So I don't know what else to do right now, I am trying to avoid extra expenditure and save up to replace my car and to start putting it towards a place of my own. 

The rabbits I am unsure.  I totally chose to skip the rabbit show, I just didn't want to go because it was cold.  I have 11 bowls for water for winter and 19 rabbits.  Time to really narrow them down!  I kind of wonder at times how did I ever end up with so many rabbits again, but right now I think it's because I have two breeds.  I intend to keep to two breeds but I *NEED* to slim them down, plus also if I end up in a location that is less than desirable for living I may not be able to have the rabbits.  There are several that I will keep no matter what but I might have to give up on something in order to move forward.  Not sure on anything yet. 

Willow has been doing well, she was allergy tested over the summer and started on the Heska shots and while right now it's still working it's way in her system and she's still on the Apoquel but I intend to start weaning her down off the Apoquel right after Thanksgiving.  Might be sooner if I have to house-sit for Mrs Fu again.  She said something about right around Thanksgiving.  It might prove beneficial if I do house-sit over Thanksgiving because then Allen can stay in my bedroom at Dads.  Not the most comfortable bed in the world but better than a cot I hope! 
I am planning a 5K which likely I will have to walk a good chunk of it because of how out of shape I am.  I am going to bring Willow to the 5K with me but not sure yet if I am going to leave her in the car or let her 'run' with me.  I might just let her run with me.