Yesterday we officially started Operation Wean Echo. He's over 6 months old now and built like a freaking TANK, so he's obviously getting lots of nutrition. But poor Sweet Tart has become skin and bones, and not only does he bully her into nursing him, he also bullies her out of her own food and she's stopped fighting back. Yesterday Dad and I went ( Read more... )

Friday I put Sawyer's halter and lead on; I was going to just bring him out and then turn him loose in the yard for a while so he could get some exercise and stretch his legs. I was barely out of the gate with him when he started trying to bite me, bite his rope, bite HIMSELF, and when I tried reprimanding him for it, he reared up really high, over ( Read more... )

Woke up this morning and found Walker out of his pen again. The pins had been pulled on one panel so that it could be opened wide, which it was. I'm pretty sure he's not capable of pulling these pins himself, and Dad pulled up just as we were getting the horse settled down, and he went out into the field and found footprints. To whoever is doing ( Read more... )

Cool weather! Cool weather! I am positively euphoric. Now all I need is a nice warm body to snuggle up with . . . but I digress. This is the weirdest class. We have the simplest assignments ever, and I've got 100% on everything I've taken and turned in so far. Next week our assignment is a 'Time Management Project' and all she wants is a one week ( Read more... )

Life is life here, nothing new in the area of job opportunities, but I did apply for 11 different ones at three of the Shands locations here. Hopefully I'll hear something! Four horses is an incredible amount of work for one person, but at least it keeps me busy. No idea why I am *still* doing all of Charles' work on Walker, since he's his horse, ( Read more... )

OMG you guys, I entered an icon challenge at henrygalelovers thinking "Aww heck, just for the fun of it" and look what happened!


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Time for me to fess up. The real reason I was so incredibly upset and antsy last time I posted was because my Dad was having an issue with a broken seal on a load he had delivered to a McDonald's warehouse, and there was a very good chance that he was going to lose his job over it. After much prayer and four or five days of him sitting at different ( Read more... )

Never has excitement over something worn off so incredibly fast. I feel really mean saying this, but for some reason, I just don't like this foal very much at all. I can't place my finger on it, but there's something in his attitude and personality that's very off-putting. Then tonight, Sweet Tart wouldn't come up to eat her food and hay, and when ( Read more... )

A few minutes ago, I had a huge rant here about stupid people who can't just leave animals alone to breed instead of standing there and watching them like perverted fuckwads, but then I tried to put it behind a cut and it went bye-bye. Anyways, my Dad, as much as I love him, keeps putting the horses together and can be stupid fuckwad about it. I ( Read more... )

1. Still battling a cold, but it's not beating me down like usual, so I'm happy. I'm also still going outside and doing things as opposed to laying in bed all day, which I've learned from past experiences doesn't do a thing for me. Yesterday, Dad announced for about the eleventieth time that Walker was lame in one foot, and at first I brushed it ( Read more... )