Sick Horse Update...

It’s been crazy around here with the horses lately and their health.

Daisy has had arthritis set in pretty bad in her shoulder and after bringing her in from the pasture she turned her ankle on her backend, so she was gimpy on both the front and the back. Her back leg is doing much better, but the arthritis is only as good as the weather. She is going to be placed on a senior feed and bute when needed and retired from everything. God willing she will be with us for another year or so, as long as the arthritis doesn’t get worse. When she stops getting up for her grain, then we will know it’s her time.

Holly also turned her ankle, only on her front end. She was really gimpy for about a week or so. She is doing much better, she ran from April the other day. She did not want to be caught and have her fly spray put on. She will be fine, no permanent problems from the injury. Holly is being retired from the business to be our fun, no hassle show horse. We plan on entering her in the monthly cart classes at the local arena.

Sergeant coliced, again. I talked to the vet about it. It seems that every time the weather changes he does this. The vet said that he has sand colic and when the weather changes some horses tend not to drink enough water, because the temperature of the water changes and is not to their liking. Anyway without enough water their poop gets a little on the dry side and starts pushing out the sand that is sitting in their gut, sound like a good thing, but it’s not. The sand irritates the intestines and upsets their system. Kind of like IBS in humans, gas, blotting, cramping, diarrhea, etc, only horses don’t tolerate the pain and you get colic. He is doing 1000 times better. He will be on a regiment of rice bran and sweet feed on a regular basis. He is also getting a clean out dose of “Sand Clear.” This will happen every night for the next week, then he will get a maintenance does once a week. With all the bran and the pysllium once a week we should be able to stay one step ahead of the colic. Now all I have to do is get the kids who feed him his hay to start putting it in his feeder and not be lazy little shits and through it on the ground.

Knock on wood everyone else seems to be doing okay.

How Stupid Can They Be?

Okay, so my blog has not turned out to be like everyone else’s blog, you know filled with what I did today, and how funny this or that is, or the like, it’s more along the line of a public place for me to vent my frustrations. Well, today’s post is no different.

As some of you might know, for a brief period of time, I worked for the City of Riverside. Now hindsight being 20/20 I see things a lot more clearly than before. I was “let go,” not offered a full time position after my 1 year probation period, because. That’s the reason they gave me, because. Anyway, after looking at the people they let go just before and after me, and the management that took “early retirement,” it’s very clear. Too much knowledge is a dangerous thing!

Brief history…the manager for the city’s wastewater treatment facility plant was on paid administrative leave pending a federal investigation for some no no’s that she was later found guilty of. Well “they” only found a portion of what was really going on and when a few of us admin people (non-management) found out what no no’s were still going on, well you can guess what happened. We no longer had jobs. No no’s like changing numbers on official reports that go to the EPA!

So anyway in today’s paper it was said that the EPA found that the City of Riverside has the cleanest post treatment water in the nation!?!

Let’s all say OH GROSS!! And fresh fish is supposed to be good for you! I think I’ll take my chances with Mad Cow Disease, Avian Flu and Trichinosis! Thank you very much!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!

Happy birthday to me.
Happy birthday to me.
Happy birthday dear me'e
Happy birthday to me.

Moving Sucks....

Well we are almost done moving into our new house. I was out of town the better part of last week, so not much got done around the house in the way of packing. Then I got sick on Monday, so not much moving has gotten done since then. But now it's crunch time, we have to have everything moved and cleaned by the end of the day tomorrow so....we are all going back over to the townhouse to clean out the garage and the last of the stuff inside and then it will be clean, clean, clean.

Did I mention that I hate moving.

And of course we are still living out of boxes at the new place, but the cats seem to really love it.

And by the way did I tell you I really hate moving!