Hello friends!
Happy Halloween! Hope your holiday is as spooky as you wish it!
We don’t really do Halloween here, it’s not really safe to have trick or theaters this far out and I’m not a big fan of some of the imagery anyway, but the kiddos love the scooby doo esque version of it, so they do some Halloween things in town.
Admittedly though, I’m writing this a couple days early, and the forecast shows pouring rain, so that may be a wishful sentence instead of a truth. Also Halloween is on a Thursday this year, which is a little odd for most people’s schedules.
I like the treats though, lots of tasty spooky treats, like pumpkin cookies and mummy brownies, double the icing so it looks like a mummy, that’s alright with me.
We had a bit of an interesting October. My grandma managed to break her back in two places, so we’ve been spending a lot of time in town trying to keep her company (and keep her from breaking doctors orders, she’s so bored). Doing some extra grocery shopping and such. Hopefully soon she will be able to ride in the car again, and then we can at least take her places and get her out of the house. She’s allowed to walk, but not far, so she’s going a little stir crazy.
We’ve officially hit wintery weather. It’s been mid 20s for several mornings in a row, and foggy and frozen. It’s usually not quite this cold this fast, at least I don’t remember it being this cold this fast, so it’s making the transition a little rough. I’m not ready to give up being outside. But I’m also not loving the sore ears and frozen fingers, so inside it is.
It’s been a busy fall for me at work, we’ve had some major infrastructure type stuff to do, which is a fancy way of saying it’s above my pay grade but I help where I can. It also means I’ve been trying to be at work and outside as much as I can, and everything else is getting back burnered. I fear the dust bunnies I’ll meet when I finally move the furniture and dust again. We won’t even talk about how behind I am in my filing. If that pile collapses, send in the national guard. I figure I’ll have time to deal with it all when the snow flies. Yuck, don’t wanna think about that yet.
We are working on a more permanent solution for that irrigation ditch through the pasture path. The current temporary solution is doing okay, but I fear it won’t last all winter. Dad had this idea to build a reinforced lid so we can access it but it would be heavy duty enough to hold up the ponies when they barge through. I’m pretty excited to see it all put together. It’s metal and wood and I’m gonna grab another rubber mat to cover it with, it’ll be so nice.
Speaking of the ponies, both are doing really well with the groundwork. Lots of working over poles, liberty work, desensitizing training, Nellie especially has gotten much braver. Ro is slowly building muscle back, today she did several rounds of trot poles without tripping over the poles because of dragging her feet. I was very pleased!
I still haven’t finished Nellie’s mask and I’m so frustrated. I put it together and the magnets aren’t strong enough. So I’m a little out of ideas. Well, not quite. I have ideas, but I don’t wanna waste this mask so I’m trying to work with what I got first. But this one is a little disheartening for sure.
The canal emptied today, well, or yesterday. I know it was full the day before because I commented on the fact it was still full this late, but I didn’t think to check yesterday. It’s definitely time, with it being so cold, but it always feels a little sad. Kinda a very strict stopping point on the summer farming. But at least now the deer can cross, and they’ve been wanting to.
We’ve had two little babies following Mama around. They are so cute and not nearly afraid enough of us. Although the parents aren’t either. We have a bit of a reputation I think. The deer don’t seem to worry too much about us, heck a bunch of them were in the pasture eating with the horses yesterday. Munching away like it was their job, which I guess it is.
Well, the winds are blowing, the rains are coming, and the sun is settling down, so I better leave this here to go throw hay for the evening. I hope you all are having a wonderful, safe fall.
Until we chat again, my friends!
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