Yesterday must have been a challenge for ALL of us. Joey and Rock always wake up (and wake ME up) at 6 AM to be let out and to have their breakfast. This morning I woke up at almost 7 and both were still sound asleep in their beds (and I wouldn't have minded going back to sleep in mine, for that matter). Guess all that barking and carrying on they did at the horses just outside their dog yard yesterday wore them both out completely!
When I went out to feed the horses this morning I expected at least Lizzy's and maybe Bug's little ear covering hats to have been taken off, but surprise . . . both of them still had them on! Excellent. (There's a lot to be said for no barbed wire!)
Anyway, by the time I got here to work it was a little after 8:30. I usually come in no later than 8 since I have to leave early three days a week to go pick up Joey before they lock up at 5 over there at LSU. Oh, well. I'm probably going to be using up a fair amount of PTO while Mark is out this two weeks!
I thought I was scheduled to go over to Pennington for some tests at 7 AM tomorrow, but it turns out it's not until NEXT Thursday, thank goodness! Maybe by then I'll have gotten into a regular routine and not have quite so much problem getting up super early that day. Maybe.
Duke and Lizzie seem to have decided to continue to switch stalls, so after I fed the horses this morning, I spent a while moving a bunch of stuff into that center hall to barricade the door that leads out of that stall that Duke has appropriated into the tack room. We had two full metal grid doors available, so we put them on Bug's stall (because she kicks), and on the stall Duke WAS in, but we just put a single chain across the door from Lizzie's stall since she never makes any attempt to go anywhere unless she is actually taken there (except maybe into a trailer -- she does do that independently). At any rate, with Duke having moved himself into what we thought was going to be her stall, I worry that he might just break through that chain and wander out into the front yard (with the open driveway gate) while I'm at work, so I rolled that metal shelving unit AND a couple of chairs into that center hall so it would at least LOOK to him like it wouldn't be possible to go through there. I also left his gate into the big pasture open so hopefully he will stay out there and not concentrate on that opening into the tack room today. Still, I'll be glad when I'm back home tonight and I can close that driveway gate -- just in case. Maybe I should have closed it this morning, but I ordered a commercial ceiling fan from FarmTek a couple days ago and it's supposed to be delivered sometime in the next couple days so I don't want to lock out the UPS guy. Sigh. Maybe we should have run some fencing down the side of the driveway instead of clear over at the canal. But it wouldn't have looked nearly as nice that way, so . . .
Always something, huh? . . .
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