Fencing and Keeneland Race track!

A couple days ago I hung around and helped put the fence in, Uncle Jim's just bringing the boards around here.

As Aunt Lisa and I left for the track, closing day at Keeneland, Uncle Jim was still moving the gravel dust up the hill from the truck down bottom. (More pictures on his blog)

Aunt Lisa and I both have never been to Keeneland so I printed directions and off we went!

And here's a gray horse that we both loved, natually of coarse it was near last in it's race but that's because I picked it too. Opps, I knew I could be bad luck! Lentanor raced today, we missed his race by like 5 minutes, but we got to watch the replay, 3rd place, not bad!

Just a shot across the track towards the board: I did get some with the film camera of horses coming out of the gate, a few of the races we watched, we got to see them come out the gate right in front of us. The track is grayish, not brown like dirt, because it's a synthetic blend with rubber and what not in it. Some think it's safer for the horses, some think no. It's still a work in progress.

The perfect way to end a day! That was from the porch behind their house before I left to head for home.

Nothing much to update with, other than posting a few rabbits on Craigslist, Jacob AKA Scrapes, a little blue polish buck. SOmeone was supposed to pick him up Wednesday night, but they had to bail and reset. Naturally, I knew that was going to happen when I brought him back to the apartment to wait, so I didn't bother Aunt Lisa and Uncle Jim going back and getting him.

Also listed is one of the little Tort dutch does. I kept one, the runt. She might have someone that wants her.

Tort Dutch Doe:

Jacob AKA Scrapes:

Few shots of the horses. Jasmine got moved over with Heidi and Phoenix because she rubbed on the gates that make up Josie and Bo's stall. She seems to love Heidi. Heidi's got a new BFF, and they are both Phoenix's girls now.

Had nothing to do so I made a page!

So I figured I'd share it, it's for horses that are very special to me. I tried to make sure people wouldn't get offended by it

http://horse-home.webs.com/

Well I got bored waiting for Rachel to come online

http://ayasorarabbitry.webs.com/index.htm I updated the rabbitry site too. HAHAHA I gotta stop waiting for her some times. She didn't get on until after midnight, but she had pics for me.

I thought that pics was cute. Lana, the mini rex baby she fostered and her own son.

Update for Allen.

Well Allen, yes, we have internet now. Road Runner is fast! But for entertainment, the guy that came to install the modem and hook the desktop up, I *had* to ask what system/computer does he prefer? Well he's a college student and taking Computer Engineering and he prefers Macs, YES I said Macs. He said they were less complicated. If it came to windows, he doesn't mind XP, Vista's a nice pain at times and the older window's versions just put him to sleep. Interesting.

Anyway. Pics from around the apartment. After some work. Sorry one is sideways, I did color coordinate my bathroom. One is from the heavy frost a few days ago.

Long Time

These Pictures are from when Uncle Jim burned the brush pile down, fire is fun, I'm just not that good with them. And had to get a few of dad helping Uncle Jim put the posts in for the sheep shed extension, but they started that when the fire had started to die down.

Aunt Lisa and Uncle Jim took me to the Festival of the Horse(Piper's festival), but my little camera wasn't very effcient at taking pictures, Uncle Jim got the best ones! You'll have to see his blog, The Warner's blog for those pictures, I got mostly Piper.

Well I have been out to groom the horses, Jazz the most, she comes right up, Pheeny's a bit more stubborn, so if I want to keep checking his feet, I have to use a small scoop of grain. He's got one chip in his one still slightly off front hoof, so I'm going to check that one hopefully daily, if not every other day, this way if it gets bad, I can try to see if Micheal has time to come check it out. I'm just afraid of quarter cracks or splitting his front hoof and laming him out. His abscess was bad enough last spring, I can't imagine a front hoof. I may start him on a hoof suppliment for the winter to harden his feet a little farther, the black smith in NY said his feet were fairly solid, but were a lot softer than Jazzy's feet, from where he had been wearing shoes for years. His back feet and Jazzy's feet look great.

Little things

Well little to everyone else. Aunt Lisa and I caravanned back, with dad's and my pickup trucks, making it in late Wednesday night. It was a VERY long drive through Penn. It's been dubbed the Contruction state now!

Anyway. Thursday I got the rabbits cages put over into the chicken pen, we will get the tent garage up for them shortly.

Today I went down with Uncle Jim to feed the sheep, all but Clarissa came in to eat, and fed Larry L.

Jazz's eye was hot this morning, a tell-tell sign it's getting ready to swell up, it's the right time of year for it to happen so she's stuck with her fly mask on, and her eye medication-which she absolutely hates- every morning. Oh well, at least she doesn't have to lose her eye this way.

Getting There . . .

The bedroom is a disaster zone, but by Saturday night, it will be basically empty. It's got to wait a day or so, I pulled a muscle in my back(right side, right behind the shoulder blade) and I couldn't really move yesterday. I'd rather let it heal up a day or so before I try packing and cleaning.

Here's the picture I took a while ago for Jess of the corner of mom's room, there is actually a floor there!

And Magic, while at the time of this post she's happily sleeping, I learned a few more things at the vet's office. Her laryanx wasn't opening fully, that's why she couldn't breath. WIth her age, it would have been too difficult a surgery to fix and with her hips, it wasn't even worth the try. I stayed with her until she feel asleep, scratching her head. And still for a 14 year old dog, she had damn good teeth, that still amazed the vet how good her teeth were. We did something right at least, she never did get the training she needed, but I was young and a bit naive. But she got to say good bye to 'her girls'. Allison took it harder than the kids did. I felt terrible for doing that to them. I shall always remember her as the dog that I made many mistakes with but it was worth it!

Sorry this was such a sad post, but I'm actually fine with it. I came apart worse when we put Starbuck down, and he wasn't even my horse!

The rabbits are getting there, I've hosed almost half of the cages and the others will be done, between Saturday and Sunday. The morning we leave I will be hosing every tray before they get stacked in the truck.

Before and After shots of one of the 'doubles' which my Holland Lops and Mini rex are in. Can you tell it's molt season? I can't remember which Holland was in that cage, I think it was Gabe. I've got a pair of dutch girls in one. Poppy, mini rex doe, is in one of the other cages because she's bred. If she keeps the babies through the move it will be wonderful, if not, I do have months to rebred her and get a live litter from her, and Lana(Gray Dutch doe) is bred along side her for Rae. I'm holding her because Colby is the one she's bred to because he throws the best looking offspring out of all of our dutch bucks(Rae's and My own), but Lana belongs to Rae. I can show her in the spring if it's before Rae gets down to get her, I don't mind, she's going to hold a mini rex baby for me(Blue otter too!).

Well I promised to help Rae with her homework, the best I can. I can't guarantee I'll be that helpful in History.