Very Wet and Muddy and Chilly

     Bonnie is leaving tomorrow to go live in Central Maine on a large farm with a woman who has no problem riding bad ponies through bucking  and rearing fits. Looks like you're going to work after all little Miss Smidge Muffin.

     Mr. Hot Spot is settling in very well. He is a sweety. I' was thinking that his barn name would have to be Ricky (Lucy & Ricky). But he's the carrot top and Lucy is the dark one. And suddenly I find myself thinking of him as "Red". His mane and forelock are really carrot red! Barn names just sort of happen for me and sometimes it takes a while for one to stick. So we'll see.

What are your horses barn names? Or do they maybe not have official barn names but just have silly names you coo at them when no one is around?

Lucy's 'real' name is Rilana, and then she gets called Goosey Girl mostly or goo-goo when no one is around. Smidge is really supposed to be Bonnie, But The Original Bonnie was 3 hands taller and outweighed her by 800 pounds. She is just a Smidgen of a Bonnie.

Far too much rain. Far too much Mud. It is discouraging, disheartening, and hard work.

I have been spreading manure as the horses make it, which worked OK in a couple of places. But in a couple of others it has not worked so well. Places where the ground stay wetter, especially this year during our first Maine monsoon season. So I am now having to stockpile. Also having to scrape out large areas of mud and muck (and of course rocks, always there are the rocks) and replace it with sand, in a attempt to get my horses up on solid ground again. Lucy's shed footing has settled and become a big puddle. So, this weekend the rubber mats have to be dragged out and lots more sand hauled in and then the mats dragged back in.

I think even the piggies are thinking there is too much mud! They spend a lot of time in the shed in the dry hay!

Well, Once again I am out of time for posting! I'm busy with a new task that I am enjoying but is taking a bunch of time. I have become VP of META and tasked with finding 800 new members before the end of the year to pay for the bridge materials that we have been fronted for our Bridge grant program. Any ideas? all are welcome! Hey, now wouldn't you spend $25.00 a year to ensure that your favorite trail always has a horse safe bridge?

More on this later gotta run . . .

Comments

[Pam Yankowsky]

It will be interesting to see what Spot's name will be! Hot Spot reminds me of what happens when your dog chews himself, LOL! Remember kelatgails? I call Angel, Angelina, Maya is MyMy or Princess, Molly is fat bottomed girl, words I can't repeat or Molly B Golly, Fly Away is Fly, Big Brown, or Moose. Riverdance was River or Rivvy. I miss her. I'm sick of mud and muck too, panicking about hay, but very glad we're not having a drought like some of the rest of the country.