I've made a lot of horse posts recently. Buckle in, because here's another. The weekend was full of em.
Friday, the vet, Carly, came out. She floated a bunch of teeth and checked out the pain in Maddy's leg.
Carrie showed her pictures of the pain in her leg, because vets like doctory stuff.
We kept Maddy and the girls in overnight.
Saturday morning, Amy and Laura came out. They'd swtiched days for chores this week. Loki's always happy to see them.
He an Amy played with the broom...
...until the game changed!
It was an odd day for chores, because we didn't have Laura and Amy bring everyone in. After we kept the girls in, I let everyone out in the morning and cleaned stalls before Laura and Amy arrived. I pulled the girls in for a late breakfast once they had some time to stretch their legs.
In between, I set up the sprayer.
Carrie was driver while I played pit crew.
We ran a quick test run of pure water to make sure everything was in order.
We fiddled with the pressure and declared the sprayer ready for service.
The timing couldn't have been better. It was a beautiful Saturday. I was off work to help and storms were predicted for Sunday morning.
We had the horses stalled, but Carrie decided we could keep them in the dry lot if she cut a hole in the fence.
We had spare gate handles, so we planned to use them to reattach the fence later.
After that it was time to play with chemicals. I had to wear gloves and Carrie wore a mask while mowing.
It looked like bright orange paint.
The chemical was a preemergent to stop foxtail from coming up. It should cover the fields for 4 to 6 weeks. We want to keep the baby grass we seeded growing competition free.
And then Carrie went to work.
She started off zig zagging and using the fence posts to keep track of where she sprayed.
Later, she realized that she could turn the mower on. The cut lines were a much better guide to track where she travelled and the pastures needed a cut anyway!
Shane stayed inside for most of this. He wasn't interested in helping. Shane didn't want to practice his Japanese to earn electronics, either, so he spent much of the day twiddling his thumbs (or harassing cats).
I played some rounds of Zombie Teenz with him, but I had to run outside every half hour or so to refill the mower or take care of some sort of chore.
Carrie would hop out of the mower and place flags down to remind herself where to restart.
The pastures looked nice when she finished up.
She hit the yard around the house next!
It took us about 5.5 hours to finish the task.
Sunday morning, the rain was inbound to hopefully wash the chemicals in as advertised.
It seems like potent stuff. It turned the sprayer yellow!
Carrie installed new gate handles while Shane and I took care of morning chores before it arrived.
The storms brought some heavy winds. Ellie called out of evening chores and I was shocked when I let the girls in for dinner. The wind knocked over our feeder!
It's heavy. I wasn't sure Carrie and I would be able to lift it (especially with her knee).
However, Carrie channeled her inner Xena and we got it up.
Meanwhile, Shane and Loki relaxed inside!
I had hoped to get Shane a playdate over the weekend, but we were 0 for 4. Henry was in quarantine from a potential school exposure, Dylan was with his mom, Hazel was unavailable, and Landie didn't come over Sunday since Ellie called out. Shane will get his chance to be super social when he goes to Nana and Pop's next week, though. Think of this week as a chance to whet his appetite for cousins!
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