Happy New Year!

Seems like a very fitting day.  I had dreamed of getting Tessa back for so long, she came available, Mikey enabled me and here she's home again.  6 years to the day that she first had arrived here with me.  Now she will not leave.  She will stay with her big sister Heidi, and little sister Willow from now on.  

Dad and Aunt Lisa humored me and took the trip with me- for which I am super glad as Dad is a fantastic driver, especially with a trailer and in craptastic weather(which wasn't forcasted to come in until later!)

Willow was super happy to have me home again.  She and I are tied together and while I missed her I think she suffered worse than I did.  She moped around and wouldn't drink/eat for mom and Jess so I let her out to romp and roll after I got home.

Heidi makes Tessa look dinky tiny!  

But they are good friends, real quick.  I think both mares were tired of being alone.  

Another busy weekend

Another weekend of crazy adventuring.   NOT in order.  Just however this felt like uploading.  

 Picked up a round bale for Heidi Saturday afternoon.  The guy has these 5 x 5 's for $25 and I know Heidi likes them- I got one from him earlier this year. He said he should have an extra 5 or 6 more for me to feed to Heidi the rest of the winter.  Dad and I shoved it off the truck Sunday afternoon.

Saturday Morning, my milk jug with Epsom salt idea didn't work to keep her tank thawed so I had to go buy a tank heater and a new end for my power cord and get something in the tank for her so she could drink.  

 New End

 Slide the plug into the pipe to keep it out of the weather a little bit

I paid for 11 bales and actually ended up with a total of 13 bales.  12 for the bunnies and one for Heidi to eat since I hadn't gotten the round for her yet. Bunnies LOVE it, and Heidi inhaled a whole bale in less than 24 hours. 

End of the long weekend off

It's been a whirl-wind of a weekend.  No pictures from Thanksgiving I didn't take any.  I've actually spent some time with Heidi now and some time with the bunnies.  I am thrilled to have Connie's litter pushing the 2 week old line and still have one of the dutch babies alive and her adoptive daughter is alive as well.  Loving the ears on the foster Velveteen Lop for sure.
Now without further adieu, Pictures!

 The finger, well lets just say Allen shot me.  With my own nailer no less.  Put a brad through the top of my knuckle and today it's sore.  It happened Saturday afternoon.  Dad pulled the brad out and said it didn't feel like it had hit the bone and it really didn't hurt Saturday.  I was too busy laughing because I will have to explain it to my bosses come Monday.  Today it was actually sore and it's starting to bruise up.  I kinda think we got the tendon so it's just time to heal.

Busy days ahead!

Been a whopper of a season so far.  75 yesterday, and today a high of like 45.  So the wind was cold and biting so Penny got her light blanket and Heidi got her sheet.  

Connie's remaining baby and the foster Velveteen Lop are doing great.  Hopefully this cold snap doesn't ruin this.  

I took some random pictures from around the barn today.

Willie (Above) and OKG (Below)

Chaucer on top and Raven below ^

Willie on top and OKG on the bottom below

The plasticed front door and the side of Natalie and Connie to try and hopefully keep these babies alive and keep the cold drafts off the nest box.  

Posting finally!

It's been a crazy few months but finally posting some pictures of this cool weekend!

The ponies are doing good, little over 2 weeks until Penny goes home to Kylie

 Now this is the way to spend the evening as the sun sets, with my best friend beside me

Then waiting for dad to come out of the woods with his deer, I watched the moon rise.

Even got to try a quick almost silhouette of my truck

 First star of the night came out.  

Ready to go

I decided today was storage room day.  I took all my horse stuff out and put that in the back of my  truck, and I used my trash can as a trash can and cleaned out my side of the storage room.  I combined, tossed quite a bit of stuff and then repacked it back in the room.  This was my end result:

 and all the horse related stuff I had stuffed away came back to the barn and I've been through it

 Some of the horse blankets that have now been listed on Craigslist:

 Penny came in to try and help after pushing Heidi out of there.  

I talked to the Housing Authority and it'll be November before they have a place open for me.  So two more months here and I should be in my own place.  Then I will have to decide what I am going to do with all the bunnies and with Heidi.  I'm leaving Penny there for Candice if I do move Heidi.  She's just not a mare that I really like.  She's just not, I don't know.