Sorry – I missed yesterday doing the blog . Some times my day just gets away from me and I just do not finish all that I wanted. Do not worry, because it is really a great feeling to have more to do then you can get done. You know, now I have a real reason to get up tomorrow and see if I can catch up – if I do not– Do not worry – I hope I get up yet the day after that — At my age, we call that getting-up thing “winning” you know!!!
Any way — how did the day get away?:
1. Yesterday was Grandma’s first day back from the big New York City and we had much catching up to do. Among many NYC stories, I heard about her and the granddaughter getting their nails done in the city.
Horses are like like Grandma and the Granddaughters — “First we get our nails done then we do lunch”
2. The farrier came in the morning. Getting horses into the barn, bringing them out one at a time, — and of course shooting the breeze with the farrier – then cleaning up all the poop out of the barn (You know nervous horses make more poop then usual) Some of the horses get a little nervous wondering what is going on with that man with knife, pinchers, and file — all that took us beyond lunch time.
3. Wed is golf day for me — the folks my partner and I played against are are very slow players — 3 hours for a 2 hour game – why did I tell you that — because I needed an excuse for my score — how can I use slow playing as an excuse — well standing around waiting for them to line-up, practice swing, and hunt for lost balls makes me nervous — and I did not want to be like a horse and poop more when nervous – so I just loose focus — fear not — we won big time anyway!
Have you seen what a day with the farrier is like? — well I will show you a few photos:
The knife
Installing special ortho shoes
Hey, what are you doing?
Kinda like this guy
The pinchers — The last foot of four x 7 horses = 28 at 5 min. each = over 2 hours with out breaks!
- Toenail clippings
Poop
That is how we won — Look at my form!
Now I must go catch-up with my day.
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