Arthur is MUCH better now - thank goodness!

But although Arthur seems fine, Mark and I aren't doing all THAT well -- changing out all the things on his foot took us a while and we both ended up soaking wet . . . me because it was hot, hot, HOT out there, and Mark because he had to sit down on Arthur's water bucket and unfortunately it was entirely full of water.  Uh oh!  

But we did finally figure out exactly how to more easily deal with Arthur and he actually doesn't seem to mind at all wearing that boot filled with all those things he needs to have on his foot to get it past his abscess.

For a few days Arthur -- well, all three of them, actually -- had been kept
inside the paddock where there was next to no mud so it couldn't get into his boot.

But over the last two days they've all been allowed out into the FRONT yard where there's plenty of grass and absolutely NO mud.  And now Arthur doesn't limp and he never bothers to  hold his foot up anymore.  He walks on it perfectly normally now.  

So there's Arthur's boot on that left front abscessed foot -- that boot is keeping
anything from going inside that little hole on the bottom front of his foot.

Since it was super hot yesterday, the three of them all stood close together
in the little bitty shade under one of the Magnolia trees for quite a while.
There are lots of bigger trees over on the other side of that yard,
but for some reason they all prefer to be under a Magnolia.
Well, everyone who drove by then could certainly check them out
while they were all standing out there close to the road.

Well, I guess I now need to find out from the vet just how long it might take for that hole in Arthur's foot to close up.  I guess we're going to have to keep changing out all that stuff for as long as that takes, so I hope it won't take a really really LONG time! 

Well, I sure am glad we've been having really good weather over the last few days so Arthur hasn't had to be locked inside his stall.  There's already a hurricane just west of us over in Texas (Hurricane Bill), but it's been warm and sunny here all the time -- great for Arthur.  But then that storm is going to go all the way up north and go across Ohio. Uh oh!  I sure hope it doesn't make too much of a mess up there by Wendy and Gerard!