Date Days!

With Shane visiting family, it was going to be a fulltime honeymoon for Carrie and I, right?

Sorta.

We still had lots of animals to take care of!

Often, I'd wake up and find Carrie looking at fish. She and Shane are both fans (and I've managed to only feed them a handful of times in a year!).

Then Loki has his morning "patrol."

He used to refuse to go outside without someone with him. If you did trick him to go out, he'd sit and stare longingly at the door for companionship.

Loki's leveled up. There are some days he'll run up the stairs after doing his business, but most days he does a lap.

We can see his progress on the security cameras!

It wasn't something we explicitly taught so much as it evolved.

The first time Carrie noticed it she made sure to reward Lokes! It happened a few more times and now he knows the drill! He loves the chicken-sausage treats he gets for keeping us all safe.

Not that he works so hard when we're at the barn. Horses are scary! He normally parks in the barn or on the driveway and watches me from afar.

It's been dry, but we got lots of cold rain at the end of the week. If we'd gotten this level of rain during the summer we'd still have grass out in the fields!

If you thought that only pigs liked to roll in the mud, you were wrong. Lane put on his pony play war paint and looked like a new horse!

Have you ever bought white shoes and worried about them getting dirty? The same concept applies to horses.

Lane and Eddy are a perfect example of this. The mud actually made Eddy lighter.

Lane was curious why I was taking pictures, so he came up to say hi and show off his dirty side.

Carrie developed a splitting headache that continued off and on for the whole week. That meant I got to do barn chores for the week (She cooked a few meals to show her thanks!).

Wednesday was special, though. Lilly had a chiropractor tune up. 

And the vet brought her dog. Loki was excited!

However, Loki's new friend was more interested in looking for mice in the barn than in running in the yard. Loki would bark and run of and turn around to see he wasn't being followed.

 But back to the chiropractic tune up in session. 

Lilly's in good shape, so Carrie didn't think there'd be any big issues. 

I know how to crack backs on humans, but horses are a different beast.

And Lilly's mind is always on one thing: food. She NEVER stops looking and hoping!

We did do some fun activities. Monday, the wrestling couch, Brian, came over for dinner and cards. Tuesday, we rented Spider-Man: Far From Home, because I'd never seen it. Wednesday, we were thinking about going to see Spider-Man:No Way Home in theaters, but between Carrie's headaches and the seats being filled (and sometimes full!) we never did.

Other than that, we did a lot of our normal activities, but low key. When Carrie doesn't feel way, she likes to watch lots of TV. I took some breaks to blog, but there were at least several hours of being parked on the couch each day.

Which is where Carrie and her cats frequently fell asleep.

We got stuff done, but it was a slow week overall and that's fine. Once Shane gets home, school will start up and I'll have to shift back into work mode. I'll be much better rested after having all the time off from Winter Break.