Day Before Leaving

Early this morning Fiesty said good-bye to BBH.The sky was beautiful. It was cool and the critters were sporting around.

It felt like the coast. It was wonderful.

Babe and Lacey are doing fine. They haven't developed lumps and are eating like horses (Sorry).

Tess and Amira are good, too. They come up to the top for every meal.

Juan took a break today and rested his sore hoof. He, like a lot of mules, is difficult to give shots to because he tenses his neck muscles and bends the needles. He doesn't like powdered Bute, either. I tried to sneak some in his grain tonight.

Maggie is eating and drinking and not coughing. We're keeping her in a stall because she is so hard to catch. If she should get sick while I'm gone Jim will at least be able to treat her. She misses her friends. They call back and forth all day long.

Lucky, who started this whole illness, is doing fine. Cricket never got sick. Lucky and Leeso were playing I'm The Biggest through the fence tonight.

Breezy Summer didn't lose much weight and is eating enough for two. Her abscess is drying up.

Rico and Navajo are beautiful bay boys.

Cash is one of our real success stories. He's an off the track Thoroughbred who didn't know how to be a horse. He was afraid to be outside, didn't know how to be with other horses and did not want to be petted. Now he is part of a small herd, loves his turnout and asks to be scratched. He was skinny and now he's not. He gallops with Breeze Bay and eats with Jesse.

The garden survived Gracie and is beautiful.

The butterflies love this bush.

Because I'm leaving for Denver tomorrow, I had this need to clean today. So besides feeding, watering, and mucking stalls, watering the garden , doing laundry, ironing and dishes I cleaned. What a silly thing to do. We had traipsed stuff in before dinner, but at least the stuff was on a clean floor.

The one thing I didn't do was make the bed. Who could disturb those 3?

Jim feels about computers the way I feel about flies so there may be no blogs for a week.

Thanks to all for the kindnesses you share with us.

Be back soon.