A lot of you will have seen this on Facebook ( Read more... )

Without getting into too many details because I've gotten into them so many times with concerned people in my immediate circle ( Read more... )

Yeah, I don't mean to turn this into the OMG I have a crisis journal, but ( Read more... )

it's Wednesday, feels like Friday, and I have a nagging corner of a headache that won't go away. This may be partly a stress hangover from the weekend. On Saturday afternoon, Mitzi seemed a little listless and off her feed. I called the vet, who said it could be related to the wound (which had just opened another draining spot) or maybe the meds ( Read more... )

Where to begin... okay: in the spring, Mitzi managed to rub herself into something (I have no idea what) and tear her perianal area quite impressively. Messy, draining, will probably take until next summer to heal. After several false starts (and a move to a new barn, more on that in a minute) she's now on a regimen in which the wound is being ( Read more... )

It was actually a pretty quiet weekend, and yet several awesome things happened ( Read more... )

okay, so yesterday I left work early so I could get to the feed store before it closed at 5:30 (we supply our own grain at the new place, of which Mitzi needs very little.) When I got to the barn I brought Mitzi in, brushed her off, and decided to take her out to the arena to longe a bit. She huffed for a second and went "oh dear oh dear" but she ( Read more... )

Have I mentioned that Mitzi has moved to a new barn? The owners of the old place decided to retire from boarding (which was technically their hobby, since they work full-time elsewhere!) and close the old place down. We've moved to a nice place a little further up the highway, with an indoor we haven't used much yet. It can be accessed from ( Read more... )

Some of you have already seen this on Facebook ( Read more... )

No, not Thor 2. (I have rather low expectations of my potential enjoyment of that one, I finally figured out I liked the first Thor because the stakes were low and personal, and I watched it as a film about a family. Which means all the tropes I thought I was seeing weren't really there, and the issues that grabbed me will never be resolved in the ( Read more... )