Another nice night

Mark didn't get time to mow the front yard before he headed back to work, so I've decided to put Ladybug to work out there for the next week and a half.  If she can't manage to keep the grass short enough, I'll try and get Jerry to come mow it the weekend after next just before Mark comes home.  But I have to say, she did a heck of a job today.  She trimmed around the trees . . .

and ate along the fence line, and concentrated on the clover that was coming up in spots.  Good job, Bug!

I let only Bug out in front because Lizzie has a serious horse trailer fetish so she has a tendency to try and go into any small space - like up on the porch of either the barn or the house.  NOT safe.  Plus she wanders around in the flower beds.  So far Bug has always stayed entirely in the grass where she belongs.  Had to laugh when the garage cat left her usual throne on the porch to go out and keep on eye on Bug:

At least she has sense enough to never take her eyes off Bug.  Very wise since Bug does tend to attack any non-horse animals who come inside her pasture.  But I think the Garage Cat is a definite match for her!

As for Duke -- I just do not trust him to behave himself out in front.  For one thing, he might try and chase Bug and she might end up somewhere she shouldn't be -- something that will not happen as long as she's by herself out there.

But Duke definitely objects to that.  Here he is standing at the fence on the garage end of the house looking out at her grazing in the front.  

Once she realized he was on the other side of a fence and wasn't going to chase her, Bug went on back there to the space just outside that fence.   At first he just rolled his eyes to look at her as she headed back there, but as she got closer . . . well, he stopped being subtle.

He's REALLY jealous that she's out there in that long grass.

Unfortunately, after he stood there for a while looking at Bug,  he began to check out those red tip photinia bushes just outside that fence line.

By the time I looked back at him again, he was beginning to taste those bushes!   Had to run him off and lead Ladybug away from there and over to the other side of the yard. 

Went online to check, but I haven't found any indication that those bushes are poisonous for horses, but I'm going to check with the vet tomorrow to be sure.  Sigh.

Anyway, once I took Bug back over to the other side of the front yard, Duke went on back to hang out with Lizzie so he's probably not going to poison himself today anyway!

Joey went to therapy again today and they said he did great.  He was the only one there today who's really mobile, so they let him out to run around and hang out with them.  No wonder he loves going there!  He must have gotten plenty of exercise, that's for sure, because as soon as we got home he crashed.  I had to wake him up to eat (usually he's jumping up and down by the time I get in there with their food).  And he went right back to sleep when he got done.  He's so cute when he sleeps.  He's like a human kid -- he's comfortable in all the strangest positions!  Sometimes he sleeps on his back with all four feet sticking straight up in the air and his head hanging over the edge like it is in this picture only backward!  Ouch! But he always seems perfectly comfortable.

Check out the edge of that bed of his -- it's obvious what he used to do while he was resting in there when we first got him!  Thankfully, he's gotten sooo much better about that.  He hasn't chewed up anything at all in quite a while now.   What a relief! 

Okay.  So now that everyone has been fed, it's time to get ready for bed.  I need to go in to work early tomorrow so I can leave early for my doctor appointment.  We're still trying to figure out what to do about that muscle or tendon or ligament or whatever the heck it was I pulled working with Joey a couple weeks back.  Went to my own doctor last week, and she  proceeded to send me to an orthopedic docter.  Hope HE can tell me something I can do about it -- other than "don't do anything for six weeks."   That would be so completely, totally, entirely impossible!  Not that it wouldn't be nice - for a while anyway.  But there is NO WAY!

Well - we'll see what he says.