It's Good To Be Home

We had a wonderful vacation. Disneyland and Las Vegas.

The kids LOVED Vegas...LOL.

But as always, it feels very good to get home.



We opted not to head the other direction this week for the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. Friends that were there said it was a ridiculous madhouse.

Ummmm....NO Thanks!

Besides...I had a lot of catching up to do. Horses that needed feet trimmed, the garden needed weeded, the yard needed mowed and even though I had dewormed horses before I left, some were still rubbing their tails, so everyone got several days of being double dosed with Lampley's Basic Mineral.

It's all under control again.

Next week me and the kiddo are heading back to SD to trade out horses.

This little guy does not have to worry about going back to be put to sleep just yet...

Because I wanted to dose everyone with Basic Mineral and The Mouse cannot handle any type of grain, I splurged and bought him a bag of Purina Wellsolve L/S. It's a low starch, low sugar complete feed for horses that are prone to foundering. The little man just loves it and has perked up unbelievably this week. That little extra really gives him something to look forward too.

I also managed to finally get a good trim on his poor foundry feet. It has taken this long of whittling on them to get them to give up all of the dead, shelly crap and to get down to some live, relatively healthy hoof. It made quite a difference, so I have gone all out and put him on double doses of MSM as well.

The next step will be to get him started on Lampley's Horse Sense. Hopefully we will be able to get his thyroid balanced and he will stop having laminetic occurrences. What the heck right? It's worth a shot.

He will actually be heading over to a friend's place in the next couple of days. A friend of ours has 2 little boys and has been looking for a nice, little pony for the boys to play with. They are small enough that they can sit on him and lead each other around. Mighty Mouse actually likes attention and having some kids to dote on him and give him some exercise will most likely help him a lot.

Of course, the biggest thing will be to make sure that mom and dad understand his feeding requirements are rigid. Since I have to touch his feet up every couple of weeks, I'll be able to keep a pretty close eye on him too. I think this family will work for him though because the dad understood how hard it is to find a nice, little kid-sized pony that won't bite, kick or run off.

One down...several to go. ;-)

Top Blog Award

When checking my email before heading out on vay-cay...I was humbled to find out I had won a Top Horse Blog Award.

Apparently a big Thank You needs to go out to the readers of my blog for nominating and voting for BrownEyedCowgirls.

Thank you everyone. Not surprisingly, I have often wondered (like so many other bloggers have this last year) if trying to keep up with the blog was worth it these last few months. About every time I thought I should just pull the plug, something would come up that I just couldn't wait to share with you all...

And I guess that is why I am still blogging. I know that I would miss the interaction with you all. So many of you I feel like I know in real life and have no doubt if we ever met in person it would be like we were two old friends catching up not like meeting a new person at all.

So Thanks again and I guess BrownEyedCowgirls will just have to stick around. ;-)

I'm Outta Here...

It's fairly unbelievable, but the whole fam is going on vay-cay!

My Honey picked up his 2 kiddos and early on Monday morning we are all headed to California to visit his sister and her family.

If it was not specifically a family gathering for My Honey, I would have mentioned it earlier and tried to see if there were any blogger buddies in the area to meet up with IRL. That would have been cool. Alas, it's a mini-family reunion. Which is cool too. My Honey's mom is beside herself with joy. For the first time in a very, very long time she will have both of her kids together with all of her grandkids.

I have yet to meet MH's sister or her family. That is always a little nerve-wracking. I'm sure they are very nice people, but I always wonder what I will talk to people about when they are not horse-people.

Getting people lined up to do chores was easier than I thought. Luckily, the neighbor that Meg and I went and roped with earlier this summer is a stay-at-home dad and very willingly agreed to take care of 'my' place. Oddly enough, taking care of the horses will be the easy part-LOL. I turned most of the geldings back out to pasture and have everything set up for the 4 head left in pens.

I am really more worried about the yard, the garden and all of those darn plants I bought and planted all over, getting enough water. I spend a fair amount of my day moving sprinklers around and watering plants. Since I am there every day, all day, I don't think too much about it. But knowing that someone is not going to want to spend hours watering everything, I have spent the last week trying to simplify my watering system.

I think I killed off a couple of plants trying to figure everything out. Hopefully, the roots/bulbs took and they will come back.

We asked a different person to come over to the home place to take care of these animals. Two dogs, 2 chickens, 4 cats, the squirrel and my plants on the deck (which are just starting to bloom like crazy and I don't want to lose them). Nothing lasts very long around here in this heat without water. Particularly this time of year.

Since we will be heading to SD directly after returning from CA, it may be a couple of weeks before I post again. If I get the chance, I certainly will...but if I don't...

Ya'll take care out there and we'll catch ya on the flip-side!