The Supervisor
I left out the pictures of Eric 12 foot up in the bucket operating a chain saw.
Almost there
"Good-ole-red-cow-who-got-struck-by-lightening" was the finishing touch
Monday, August 20, 2007
Bumps and Bruises
We started out last week with Eric getting up at four-thirty to take two horses to the ranch horse competition at the state fair. There must have been a full moon as the three year old decided he had never seen a gate in his life. To make things better, loading and unloading from a trailer was part of the competition and his mare fell out of the trailer, put a big gash in her hock and took skin off plenty of other places. Dr. Foland happened to be in the audience and helped get her stitched and wrapped up. This was the start of the horse infirmary.
The next day another mare turned up bit on the nose by a rattlesnake. So with her nose almost swollen shut, she took a bed in the infirmary. They both seem to be recovering and now just gimp to get attention. I was beginning to think I was bad luck when our neighbors dog, who we were watching while they were out of town showed up with porcupine quills, but we got those handled too and now all creatures of the four-legged variety are happy and healthy.
But I had forgotten those of the two-legged variety when Saturday Tess forgot to explain to Sugar the difference between her finger and horse cake. Just when we had forgotten those tears and we were trying to take control of the garden Tess bailed head first from a swing and now has a giant red and black and blue scrape and scab from her hair line to her lips. But we still made it to the fair again to check out the carnival and had a nice picnic at a friends.
The garden is still out of control by the way, so if anyone out there has a hunkering for zucchini, carrots, beans, beets, lettuce I can set you up, especially if you are interested in zucchini the size of a walrus.
Tess also went to a Casper Rockies baseball game and had a blast! If only I were smart enough to transfer photos from my phone to the computer....
The next day another mare turned up bit on the nose by a rattlesnake. So with her nose almost swollen shut, she took a bed in the infirmary. They both seem to be recovering and now just gimp to get attention. I was beginning to think I was bad luck when our neighbors dog, who we were watching while they were out of town showed up with porcupine quills, but we got those handled too and now all creatures of the four-legged variety are happy and healthy.
But I had forgotten those of the two-legged variety when Saturday Tess forgot to explain to Sugar the difference between her finger and horse cake. Just when we had forgotten those tears and we were trying to take control of the garden Tess bailed head first from a swing and now has a giant red and black and blue scrape and scab from her hair line to her lips. But we still made it to the fair again to check out the carnival and had a nice picnic at a friends.
The garden is still out of control by the way, so if anyone out there has a hunkering for zucchini, carrots, beans, beets, lettuce I can set you up, especially if you are interested in zucchini the size of a walrus.
Tess also went to a Casper Rockies baseball game and had a blast! If only I were smart enough to transfer photos from my phone to the computer....
