Guess I shouldn't complain. Today has been the most laid-back day of this week for me - at least until Friday. Tomorrow is Mark's day to head back to work, and I have an MRI scheduled tomorrow as well, so I'll be leaving work early to come wave good-bye to Mark, then head back out to the MRI place, then hurry back home to feed all the dogs and horses.
Then on Wednesday, both Boo and Joey have 5 PM appointments over at AVS. Joey has been limping off and on over the last week or so - his right front leg. I've intended to take him over there a couple times, but then he stopped limping -- until I cancelled, of course -- then he started again! Geees! He also needs his thyroid blood test, so what the heck -- he might as well go along with Boo on Wednesday, whether he's limping or not! As for Boo, I've discovered that his top lip is split all the way up to his nose! It's not bleeding or anything so maybe it's nothing new. But I noticed when I was looking at some dark growths of some sort, just like the growth over his right eye, that are on his top lip just far enough on the inside that they're not noticeable. And there's some more of whatever those black growths are on the skin above his mouth in a number of places. VERY odd. So I want them to check it out and assure me that it's not some sort of cancer or something. None of it seems to bother him except one place on his cheek where he keeps scratching it with his paw and making it bleed. I guess it either itches or he thinks it's something he needs to scrape off - I don't know. We'll see, I guess.
Then on Thursday, I have to go across town to a company that makes tooth crowns because they insist upon seeing the color of my actual teeth before making my crowns. Apparently my teeth do not match any of the standard color numbers exactly so the dentist is sending me over to them so they can match my teeth exactly. Good grief. I wouldn't mind, of course, except that the place is half an hour away from my office and they don't open until 9 am and they close at 3 PM every day. So no matter when I go, it will mean taking off work. Sigh.
But then on Friday I have nothing at all to do except go home and maybe begin to rearrange things in the barn! Yippy! Mark and Jerry finished putting up the plywood walls on the inside last weekend and Jerry got a lot of it caulked and primed. So now I get to go to decide where to arrange things so that when Mark gets home we can put up the blanket hangers and saddle racks and arrange the shelving units in there. Since the building is air conditioned now, that won't be too much of a challenge at all. The only problem will be my inability to lift anything with my right arm at the moment. Here's hoping that once the ortho doctor gets that MRI result, he will arrange to do SOMETHING about that. At this point, I really don't care what-the-heck he does. Just FIX it, d--m it!
I'll tell you what. Time is really moving right along. September is coming up soon, and it's going to be the most likely hurricane month so far so I'm a bit concerned about what we can do if something comes up while Mark is at work.
Mark and Shaun got the bottom half of one dutch door installed on Lizzie's stall last week, and Mark is going to put Lizzie's old gate on Arthur's stall before he heads back to work. That way, if a hurricane comes up, keeping Duke inside will be the only problem -- and Jerry would probably come by and help me deal with that.
I hope when Mark comes home next time the two additional solid core doors we need for the dutch doors on Arthur's and Duke's stalls will have come in. I only ordered one to begin with to see if the thing would work. It did - REALLY well. So I ordered two more, but it will be another 3 or 4 weeks before they get here. What Mark decided to do on the two back doors instead of installing Dutch doors, is put up "French" doors because there isn't an entire 4 feet on either side of those two doors so the dutch doors won't fit there. Instead they're going to look more or less like this:
Those solid core doors are 4 feet wide but only 8 feet tall and of course plywood measure the same. So above all five doors there will be a 1-foot high screen transom. But even in a hurricane, I don't think they will let in much water since they're under a foot-wide roof overhang.
And down the road I'm thinking I'll put up "curtains" using shade cloth on the inside of each stall (we have LOTS of that stuff - I got it for something else that we didn't do). And last spring -- because there is no "porch" roof on the back (west) side of the barn, we had nailed up shade cloth panels over those two back stall doors to keep the sun out and the temperature inside the barn down. It worked, too! I thought the horses wouldn't like it and would avoid it by going in and out their other doors, but as it turned out, they weren't the least bit disturbed by the stuff! It took them just a day or two to start going in and out right through it. They let it drag over their bodies as they go in and out -- no problem at all. So as I said, I think we'll put "curtains" up on the INSIDE of those back French doors. Having them on the inside, they wouldn't interfere with the doors if we needed to close them, but they would still keep the sun out when the doors are open. Okay. Maybe that IS a bit high end for a horse stall, but hey . . . we get to spoil them rotten if we feel like it! And come on -- why should the dogs be the only spoiled kids in our family??!!
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