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August 19, 2008
by Bonnie Davis
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Folks have e-mailed about Nic's Hoof. It's doing great!! Attached a picture of what it looks like now. The hole has begun to shut and infection is gone. (Thanks to Pat for her 'sock.') When I get my truck back, I'll take him over to the vet hospital in a couple weeks to get shoes put on.
My truck is in the 'truck hospital.' The body shop finally found a fender for my 1985 Ford F350 diesel dually. Now the tire company and I are in 'discussions' about the tires. As I said before, take your vehicle into your tire shop and have them check those DOT numbers. I didn't know tires had a "shelf life."
Summer is moving right along and I haven't got much riding done. With Nic's hoof and my truck being laid up, it's been mostly get the barn in order for fall and winter. Amazing how much stuff one can accumulate around a barn. Like pieces of rope. I hate to throw rope away. Can always use a short piece of rope. And snaps. I have a bag of snaps. But I did throw out the broken snaps. The ones that broke when a horse pulled back or are just worn out. Not really sure why I was saving them but there had to be a reason at sometime or other.
I even swept off the cement pad in the barn that we put pallets on for hay and pellet bags. Forgot about Henry. When I moved a pallet he slithered off. Since we've had a couple rattlesnakes come around barn had to take a double look at Henry. But it's nice to have a friendly snake in the barn.
When I found him in pasture he was just an eight inch gopher (or bull) snake. He fit in my jacket pocket. I took him to barn but when I went to get him out, he had found the hole in my pocket and was in jacket lining. Ever try to get a snake out of a jacket lining WITHOUT cutting another hole in lining? It can be done, but you really have to work at moving the snake around and back to the pocket hole.
Henry won't fit through the pocket hole anymore. Won't even fit in my pocket. He's about 2 feet long now from eating all the mice that used to live under the pallets. We don't have anymore mice in the barn, thanks to Henry!
Spiders are my bug-a-boo. I don't mind the big brown and grey wolf spiders that you see outside but the ones that hide in places tend to startle me. Especially Black Widows. Always seem to have a couple of them even in closed, empty aluminum cans used for grain. I never can figure out how they get in them since the lids are really tight and all the ones that live in the cans are REALLY BIG!! But even a spider can help you out sometimes.
Remember one time at another barn my grain used to disappear awfully fast. I'd fill the aluminum can to the top and within two, three weeks it was empty. And I was only feeding one can a day to one horse. I really don't mind people borrowing or loaning someone something -- but don't just take it. Or in common terms, steal it.
Next to the grain can sat another empty can and it had a couple Black Widows in it. So one day I put a sign on top of both cans "Caution: Open with care. Black Widows in can lids." People would ask me if there were "really Black Widows in the cans?" and I'd reply "Yup." After that the grain in the can lasted for a couple months -- at least.
Hope you guys have been getting in tons of riding and have covered hundreds of miles of trails!! Once Nic gets his shoes and I get my truck back planning a trip up into the Sierra for a few days. That is if it isn't burned down by then. Seems California is still burning -- somewhere.
Take care and let me know about your trail adventures......
Bonnie
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