SIgh of Relief!

Well my Coggins and Rabies report's came back, I pick up my health certificates in the morning(in a few hours). I booked the trailer, so if dad wants to look up the provider so he knows what kind of trailer to look for when it comes down to the time, it's CornyCreek. I liked his feedback and everything, no truck problems, nice clean big trailer. I'll be sending their grain down with them, Phoenix will have several days worth mixed up for his suppliments(Which I'll wean him down to every other day on). It is just a relief to know now that they are booked. I'll get the finalized details probably done this week, or next week.

And my little babies, their eyes are open and they'll be 7.5 weeks old when we get down to Kentucky, so I may wean them a bit early at 5.5 weeks and start letting them go at 6.5 weeks old. The halves only come from being born in the middle of the week! LOL. There's one in the litter that I'm itching to keep and show myself. From what I can see, there are no visible mis markings on it. If it is as good as it seems, I just raised my own little champion, but the face marking is typically a judges call. I've had some that one judge liked the face, but another said it was too wide. *shruggs* It's a judgement call I guess. I have found two shows within a tolerable driving distance from the Warner's address. I give up to two hours to drive. But they aren't until next spring, One in Louisville and the other is in that direction. I'll look around in the neighboring states once I get settled down with them and make sure they all have traveled well.

Well I'm starting to get excited!

Washington County Fair is also Next week, I'll be going Wednesday morning for the youth Rabbit show, Thursday for the Gymkhana(Watching only!) Friday and Saturday for myself to enjoy, the Draft Horse versatility show is on one of those days, and Mom wants to pick up some maple syrup and 'fair food'.

Dutchie pics!

A few of these I wish I had, had to enter into the fair this year.

This lovely lady is Rachel, name namesake for my best friend, I gave her a dwarf that she named after me.

This is Bo, he's my unrecognized colored dutch boy that I wanted to find a good home for.

He's a Blue-steel. Blue's and Steels are both recognized colors but them mixed is not-yet.

Missy Sasha, she's a steel doe, I was laying in the pen with them outside this morning and got the camera out. Silver, Syd, Sasha and Rachel anyway.

I've got a 'job' for tomorrow so I'll have to let you know how that goes! LOL. I'm working part time as a photographer to cover weddings now!

Well nothing going on really

I've actually started to pack up my room and go through things again, 'bout time too. I've been procrastinating long enough I think.
My last litter of babies(most likely) were born today, 8 Tort Dutch babies out of Jules by Colby. Poppy I was requested to bred, but we aren't sure she'll keep her babies with the move, but we're going to try.
No pictures just yet. Jules is a new mommy(WIth a big litter to boot) and I don't want to worry her too much just yet. I jus tmove the fur and check that all 8 are still moving today. Well they won't wean until after I get down to Kentucky so Aunt Lisa will get to see babies! LOL. I'll put them up on craigslist when I get down there. Torts are my favorites, followed by Blue and then Steels. Gray, Black and Chocolates are the last three colors.
Well enough about bunnies, The horses get their rabies, coggins and health certificates done this Friday, I'mnervous, I've never had either one get shots before, Phoenix should be fine, he's had shots before that I know. I know Jazz has had them before, needed them for trailering, but I don't know how she'll stand for them. We wait and find out! I was shocked that Tammy still recognized me, I haven't been into Battenkill Equine since I interned there right after graduation. She was sad to hear that I was leaving, but at least happy that my babies get to go with me. I forgot to mention the rabbits though. :)
Well I'll have pictures up this weekend, and just more plain stuff; besides how the packing in my room is going.

Allen's post

Allen's actually done repainting the kitchen, but I haven't gotten around to getting finished pictures yet, these were taken during the process, Sorry Allen, had to post the hair picture!






























Allen also put the railings on the trailer that dad asked him for. If you need to know dad, the railings are two feet shorter than the trailer, thsu the gap picture. 10 Foot trailer, 8 foot boards or something like that he was telling me while I was trying to get ready for work and post this at the same time . . . I mean I do multitask very well, I just can't be trying to do four things at once.

My blacksmith comes again tomorrow to do feet again, I think he'll be happy with the progress Phoenix's feet have made in the past 6 weeks. they were long and drifted to pidgen toed, so we're working on getting them straightened. To my knowledge, his feet have been like that for as long as I can remember, but they didn't look right to me-hence the blacksmith. I wasn't so sure anyway. Phoenix seems to like this guy and We'll just see how far this goes.

Cleaning Day, or should I say Bathe day?

Not exactly sure what order this was all done in, other than the bathes were today, and everything else was before them, but whatever I guess.
Here's Allen when he re-painted the hood of my truck. I need to pick up a few more cans of the paint and get some better stuff this time, this can ran all over the place(or an aresol can that's terrible) and Allen got covered in white, the bumber, the ground, you name it and it probably got painted.
















The Fourth of July Parade, since Mom had Allen's car that day going shopping, we took the truck up to watch the parade. We got kind of lazy and went up early so I could just park the truck and sit in the truck to watch the parade. Allen sure does look comfy!
















Jazzy and Pheonix both got bathes this morning. Pheeny was being a dork about it, he's used to warm water baths and wash stalls, here he got tied, like Jazz on the grass and washed by the hose and frostfree water line-no warm water there! Jazz loves to play with the hose when I do her face, she wiggles her lips in the water. Pheonix was done first so I could toss his fly stuff back on and get him back out in the pasture. Jazz, since I know she bathes well I waited until after to do.

I got a little bit soaked since Jazz has such a long mane and the bugs were atrocious so she kept shaking her head. I didn't care, other than the weird looks from other people at Hannaford afterwards to get dad's perscriptions. Rubberboots, soaked jeans and tee-shirt, you might wonder. The guys at Country Power-went there for Grain while I was down there- just laughed.

I got filthy going through and mowing around my rabbit shed and cleaning all the cages and what not. But it looks great in and around it now! Lol. Time to take a nice shower and relax for the remainder of my weekend.

Little bit of Everything

And Everything is about the right thing . . .

It started with changing my powersteering hoses. Changed way to easily for Mark and me and he HAD to say it, "Eh, What else can go wrong?". Well. Mom's waterpump in her car, my powersteering got an airbubble in it so I thought I had blown the pump up- It is going to get changed as the weather starts to co-operate, but it's fine. Then while mom was coming home from Kentucky, one of allen's tires exploded on her.

Looks purdy doesn't it?

We ended up waiting 3 hours for a garage to open up that worked on cars(We got to mom arond 5am), the first two we stopped at only worked on trucks(and by trucks I mean the big semi's and dump trucks- not little trucks like mine). The people that lived across the road from the garage were Amish folks, and being the slightly unsmart person that I am at that hour of the morning(8 am), took a wonderful picture of the horse and buggy as they left the farm house. Then was told Amish don't like their pictures being taken. Opps. Well at least in the picture you can't see their faces which I guess is okay. Learned that Mom's dad was born Amish but chose to leave that life. Learn something new everyday I guess.

So finally get back on the road, it's almost 80 degree's outside, so mom and Aunt Sheri stick me in the Buick(No A/C), and we actually got on I84 in Penn and got caught in Traffic!:

And then the driving rain once we were heading back home from Aunts house, my truck stayed in East Greenbush with Uncle, mom was too tired to drive(And SHE was tired? What about me?) So I drove the two of us home and we got home around 6:30 pm, in that same friggin downpour, my truck got left behind. I fed the rabbits and filled what water bottles I could with what water I had in the bucket and ran back inside. Then took a nice shower and went to work-talk about sleep deprevation. By the time I finally got to go to bed, I had been up for 37 and a half hours. Work wasn't pretty that night either.

Thursday night when mom finally woke me up again, I lazed around for a little while and finally came in, bored I texted Rachel "I'm bored, Wanna chat?" and I got a phone call with Rachel singing 'Find out Who Your Friends Are', by Tarcy Lawrence, Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney. She and her mom had a flat tire out in the back area in North Argyle. I had a reason to pick up some Ice Cream now! LOL. So spent a few hours with them and got home around 1 am.(I got there about 9pm) and Naturally it was in the rain, and dark but my truck was good. Today I'm going to be using my truck to get the tire remounted and back on Cindy's truck so she's got her vehicle back. :) Well makes for a long week or so here. Maybe I'll post pictures of the horses, bunnies and Magic this evening.

Ramp

The long delayed images of the ramp that Allen built for Magic and the handcart. I've had a few co-workers offer to buy it from us when we get done with it. *Shrugs* Maybe Allen should have a career change? It's squeaky but it's stable. I watched Allen jump on it numerous times and climb up and down on it. Magic seems to like it better than the stairs, she goes down very willingly, up I have had to coax her a few times but she does go up it. Charity(3 yr old I think) adores it, she was running up and down on it one afternoon when she came with one of her sisters to walk Magic that she woke me up. I rolled back over and went back to sleep, but asked mom later who it was. She's so cute.

Allen also started to sand the old hand rail down so he could urithane it but Dad's sander just up and quit on him one day. He told me the paper had ripped so he turned it off and got some new paper, and it wouldn't restart. He said he's going to get a new sander and if dad knows why it's not restarting, that, that would be wonderful news to know.

Happy dad? I know I've been forgetting to send you some, so now everyone can see them! LOL. It really is nice and sturdy. Allen's going to ask Mike if his inlaws want us to leave it for when they move in, we'll just tuck it up where the boat shall be vacating soon, when we are done with it.