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Holiday and pony report
May. 30th, 2006 11:15 amIt's the obligatory post holiday update. Yay!
Holiday-wise, I didn't do anything special. The limited number of barbeque grills in the complex and their distance from my apartment meant I didn't even consider grilling any kind of holiday dinner.
Saturday morning I went bed shopping. It's kind of amusing how self conscious people, including me, get when laying on bare mattresses in stores. I've no problem with dozing in chairs in waiting rooms, airports, or other public places, but there's just something weird about laying on a bed in a store. I guess it's because it's not a normal sleep/bedroom environment or something. Anyway, I finally made a decision and will have a new bed arriving on Friday. Annoyingly, I couldn't even specify a preference as to morning vs afternoon delivery and won't find out the estimated delivery time til around 8 Friday morning. Ugh. I figure I'll come into work at 7 as usual and either go home then come back if it's going to be the morning or just go home early and stay there if it's afternoon.
Since the new mattress is a pillowtop, all the current queen sheets I have aren't going to be deep enough. I did some quick shopping around after leaving the bed place so that I'd have one set to use on Friday night. It wasn't easy. Finding a sheet set that was deep, not in some weird color/pattern, or with a low thread count of like 2, AND which didn't cost a fortune was a bit of a challenge. I finally found a set on sale. I'll do some more extensive shopping later since I want more than one set and also because the one I got is white. I prefer something in an actual color for sheets.
Sunday definitely wasn't a typical one at the barn. The trail rides all went fine, and the mucking and other routine stuff was business as usual. The difference started when I got there, though. Don said he was going to leave early, just after the 2nd ride went out, to head out to his boat so he could motor down to meet his brother at some marina. That itself is unusual, since Don only does something like that a couple times a year. It just meant that I'd be handling the money for the 3rd trail ride and taking care of some office stuff and locking up at the end of the day. No biggie. I'd get home a little later than usual but the only issue that might cause would be me missing my usual slot in the weekly MC raid in Warcraft.
So the third ride went off without a hitch and when it returned we did all the usual untacking and stuff and took those horses out back to turn out in the pasture. As usual, the horses that didn't work Sunday or that weren't being used in the 3rd ride were already in the upper dirt pasture. I went to open the gate to let 'em onto the grass. That's where the day really deviated from the norm.
( Semi icky horse injury stuff )
Throughout it all, Nugget was calm and easygoing and didn't fuss about anything. He was more interested in grazing or trying to eat leaves from a tree than about the stuff we were doing to his leg. Nugget is usually kind of a goofball, so his behavior Sunday was a pleasant surprise. We were really lucky that the cut was where it was and that he'd rubbed his nose on it. Otherwise it might have gone unnoticed until Monday when the horses were brought back in.
Sunday night, yesterday, and even today, I've been feeling the effects of half-squatting beside nugget running water around that wound. My hips, knees and lower back are all kind of complaining. Gads, I'm getting old.
Monday was pretty uneventful. I slept in as best I could, though Katie woke me often. I guess she was either trying to be helpful since I was in bed later than usual or she was miffed that I hadn't gotten up and paid attention to her. Once up, I did some minor cleaning, lazed around a bit, and played some Warcraft off and on. I haven't heard any update on Nugget yet. I'm assuming he's not going to be working for a long time while that leg heals. The location of the cut will probably cause it to get pulled open as he gets up or lays down in the stall, meaning it will take a long time to heal, just like Dan's old leg injury.
Holiday-wise, I didn't do anything special. The limited number of barbeque grills in the complex and their distance from my apartment meant I didn't even consider grilling any kind of holiday dinner.
Saturday morning I went bed shopping. It's kind of amusing how self conscious people, including me, get when laying on bare mattresses in stores. I've no problem with dozing in chairs in waiting rooms, airports, or other public places, but there's just something weird about laying on a bed in a store. I guess it's because it's not a normal sleep/bedroom environment or something. Anyway, I finally made a decision and will have a new bed arriving on Friday. Annoyingly, I couldn't even specify a preference as to morning vs afternoon delivery and won't find out the estimated delivery time til around 8 Friday morning. Ugh. I figure I'll come into work at 7 as usual and either go home then come back if it's going to be the morning or just go home early and stay there if it's afternoon.
Since the new mattress is a pillowtop, all the current queen sheets I have aren't going to be deep enough. I did some quick shopping around after leaving the bed place so that I'd have one set to use on Friday night. It wasn't easy. Finding a sheet set that was deep, not in some weird color/pattern, or with a low thread count of like 2, AND which didn't cost a fortune was a bit of a challenge. I finally found a set on sale. I'll do some more extensive shopping later since I want more than one set and also because the one I got is white. I prefer something in an actual color for sheets.
Sunday definitely wasn't a typical one at the barn. The trail rides all went fine, and the mucking and other routine stuff was business as usual. The difference started when I got there, though. Don said he was going to leave early, just after the 2nd ride went out, to head out to his boat so he could motor down to meet his brother at some marina. That itself is unusual, since Don only does something like that a couple times a year. It just meant that I'd be handling the money for the 3rd trail ride and taking care of some office stuff and locking up at the end of the day. No biggie. I'd get home a little later than usual but the only issue that might cause would be me missing my usual slot in the weekly MC raid in Warcraft.
So the third ride went off without a hitch and when it returned we did all the usual untacking and stuff and took those horses out back to turn out in the pasture. As usual, the horses that didn't work Sunday or that weren't being used in the 3rd ride were already in the upper dirt pasture. I went to open the gate to let 'em onto the grass. That's where the day really deviated from the norm.
( Semi icky horse injury stuff )
Throughout it all, Nugget was calm and easygoing and didn't fuss about anything. He was more interested in grazing or trying to eat leaves from a tree than about the stuff we were doing to his leg. Nugget is usually kind of a goofball, so his behavior Sunday was a pleasant surprise. We were really lucky that the cut was where it was and that he'd rubbed his nose on it. Otherwise it might have gone unnoticed until Monday when the horses were brought back in.
Sunday night, yesterday, and even today, I've been feeling the effects of half-squatting beside nugget running water around that wound. My hips, knees and lower back are all kind of complaining. Gads, I'm getting old.
Monday was pretty uneventful. I slept in as best I could, though Katie woke me often. I guess she was either trying to be helpful since I was in bed later than usual or she was miffed that I hadn't gotten up and paid attention to her. Once up, I did some minor cleaning, lazed around a bit, and played some Warcraft off and on. I haven't heard any update on Nugget yet. I'm assuming he's not going to be working for a long time while that leg heals. The location of the cut will probably cause it to get pulled open as he gets up or lays down in the stall, meaning it will take a long time to heal, just like Dan's old leg injury.