Hello friends!
It’s finally feeling like spring around here! We’ve had a little sun, it’s starting to get warm, and I get to work out on the porch occasionally.
We had quite the April around here. First of all, Watson had to have an urgent surgery. He’s all good now, but is officially toothless, again. So, late March he started acting like he was having the worst allergies, which he has always had some allergies but this was really rough. It started making me nervous that something was going on so I called and got him an emergency appointment because it was messing with his breathing and it was clear he was just unhappy. They took a look at him and it turns out the little guy wasn’t quite as toothless as we had thought. In fact, he had some impacted in his sinuses that were officially rotting and decaying and causing a whole mess. So, it wasn’t quite emergency surgery but it was “we need to solve this asap” and as soon as his bloodwork came back my sweet baby had dental surgery. He was an unhappy camper for a while during recovery, but now he is the most happy go lucky little pup again. He jumps and plays just like a puppy, I can’t imagine how much discomfort he had been having with those hidden teeth. It’s clear this was a major quality of life improvement.
We’ve had a pretty vet heavy month anyway, because on top of that, April is almost always farm call month. This year Watty abstained because he had just finished surgery and had been poked and prodded previously, but Joe, Ro, and Nellie all did awesome!
Joe loves making friends and had such a good time meeting the new vet (we rotate vets so there’s always someone who knows my critters around), Ro was a saint as the vet used her to help educate me on some new ways to keep an eye on health metrics (I learned how to tell if a horse needs their teeth floated, and spoiler alert, this summer she will), and Nellie totally blew my mind and stood happily for the whole thing! Not one spook, the vet good-naturedly accused me of lying about her being a spooky horse. We didn’t push our luck and I still vaccinated her a few days later, but to be honest, I think we totally could have gotten away with him vaccinating and I think she would have been fine. But I am glad we didn’t because this way it was just a fun experience with new friends, and hopefully she will build on that next time.
My new glasses finally arrived, and I love them. The everyday ones currently still hurt my ears, so I think I need to go get them adjusted again but the sunglasses have been life changing. I do not know how I have been working out in that bright sun without eye protection because it is truly so so so nice. Especially with little miss Nellie, who is a glowing white in the summertime, she would literally leave little sparkles in my vision similar to when you look at a light bulb.
Otherwise, we are just slowing bringing the farm back online after this winter. This winter was crazy rough on the farm, so there’s a ton of work to do. But some of the sprinklers are working, the arena is clean, and the yard is nice for the dogs again. I still need to move hay around, clean my tack room, and I would love it if literally any of my wheelbarrows had working wheels because the manure picking situation on this farm is a little ridiculous at the minute. Those goat head weeds did a number on the tires around here.
Anyways, I think that’s most of that in my corner of the world. Hope you all are staying safe and having a good spring. If you have been hit by any of the crazy storms around the midwest of the US, please know you are in our thoughts. I hope the weather chills out soon.
Love you all, until we chat again my friends!
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