Off to VA

Glad your trip is going as planned, Face.  Remember to take your health certificates with you when crossing state lines.

Have pretty much decided that the gelding will be seeking a new home.  He gets too rattled to be safe to be around at times.  Sad, because he has potential to be a good boy for someone.  I don't think I am that someone and we can't do much of anything with Whisper if he is around.  He frets if you get next to her,  The only place he is comfortable with her getting attention of any kind is in her stall with him in the next stall.  He turned around and came back to his stall yesterday when he realized she had not been let out of hers yet.  I found out he was fighting and trying to herd the horses where he was before he came here...not from the seller but from someone who was there looking at horses.  When I told her where he came from she said, "You got that crazy red horse?"  That pretty much says it is an established behavior.  There are too many good horses out there seeking new homes to risk getting hurt with one that acts the way he does.

Hunter, saw the picture of Zag.  He looks so good.  Always great to know your boy is getting wonderful care.

Oh, Face, the trails.  We have an old railroad bed trail near here that I would like to try...at a different time of year.  It is pretty buggy now and there is a lot of wet land around this trail.  They are planning on opening up old rail road beds for trails in the adirondacks soon...I think hiking is primary but it would be great if the horse folks would ask to be included.  There is a pretty active horse group in the state.

We are supposed to get showers again this morning so maybe the horses will stay in this morning. Put them out yesterday morning and did stalls and then put them back in because we got some really heavy rains...with wind.  We watched a burst of wind come along the front of our property and it picked up our Shelter Logic car tent and move it.  Pretty neat.  Oh, yes, I admit, I screamed because it did frighten me just a bit.

Have a super day everyone.  

DH, my step son went back for a second surgery on the back of his knee because the scar tissue from his burns kept cracking and bleeding.  The second surgery was a huge success.  He had been walking on tip toe and now walks perfectly normal.  He fell and sat in fire so it was his butt, legs, and hands that got it.  I saw his hands in the hospital before he was airlifted to a bigger facility.  Nasty.  He is a mechanic and the hands work fine now.

Connie, Zag is FAT! But I attribute that to spring grass. They only get hay/grass. Right now it's all-you-can-eat. But yes, it's a blessing to know he's so well cared for. Steve still does his feet and Dawn's a natural equine dentist. No one could ever ask for more - except closer proximity.  (you screamed? Sounds like me when Leland's chipmunk came back to life and sprinted across the living room)

Off today. The dogs got me up to eat...an hour late. Good dogs. Now the TV is spewing garbage into the living room and my head hurts. Oh well. I know lots of people like it as a backdrop. (why?)

face, former Forum member CodysCorral is in the Covington area. I've visited and ridden on one of those trails. I want to say there was a lot of gravel, which would be bad for my horse if I didn't have boots on him. But you can't get any more gorgeous. I think they mostly travel next to streams in that area.  I'm sure you'd get them to do well over a bridge.

Okay, better git.

I really need to put Socks on a diet.  He jiggles when he walks.  Problem is he hangs his head over the stall front and sobs.  Not kidding.  Never had such a crybaby.  Last out of his stall and first in, sometimes by as much as several hours.  Working his butt off would help, I'm sure.

One of the reasons I haven't taken Socks up to Fawn Lodge is the bridge across the creek.  He would lose his mind on the thing, I'm sure of it.  Also, there are no railings or sides of any kind.  Very dangerous with a horse being silly.  Add to that it's a twenty foot drop to the creek.

Jmebear is back in the hospital again.  Possible internal bleeding this time.  Honestly, this whole experience gives me no confidence with replacement surgery.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Stude, I had both knees replaced (at the same time) over 12 years ago.  While recovery was anything but fun, my first conscious thought when I woke up was that my knees did not hurt,  I took my full (paid) six weeks leave and used it for PT and rest.  When I went back to work, one of "my" students was on a restriction that mandated he be escorted every place he went in the school.  Up the stairs to the lockers.  Down the upstairs hall and then down those stairs, back down the lower hall (stop at the rest  room) and back to study hall.  He told me to consider it part of my PT.  He was right.  Going up and down those stairs was wonderful therapy.  I would do it again in a heartbeat.  Being able to walk and stand without pain is a blessing.  Some things still are not good to do, kneeling is one of them.

I 'joined' a hackney horse site on facebook.  Mostly ponies.  Like the horses much better.  Socks is magnificent.