Okay so I have been off the computer more than I have been on cause I have been outside doing stuff, loading stuff, and well just lots of stuff.....
I woke up this morning, got ready for work, went out to feed only to find I was missing two horses. Well I live at a dead end dirt road and I use to keep a couple of the horses in the pasture that backs up to the property I live on. After looking around and not finding them hanging out on the place I went down the street on a hunch. Yep hunch was right. There in the front yard were Rebel and Little Man happily (or unhappily) grazing on what use to resemble grass. Nothing resembles grass here in Texas anymore. Its just brown dry stuff. I parked the truck, walked over, got the boys and we walked back to the house. I put them up, repaired what Rebel had pushed over (big bull moose) and headed off to get my truck. I came back and finished the fence and headed to work. To my amazement I was on time. SHOCK! So I worked my half day today and came home and decided there was another section of fence that really needed to be replaced. So, of course, I set out to replace that section of fence. Tools gathered, fence dragged over, I proceeded to start fencing. Rebel decided that he would try to sneak passed me in an effort to go on a walkabout again. No sir! Got the fence section replaced. And ya know? It was only 102 degrees today!!!! It had cooled off for almost a week and just when we thought it was not going to get raging hot again.....well here it is.
Whisper got to play in the water as usual today. I have been working non-stop to save money to get moved so I haven't had a chance to work with her again since the weekend.
As I write this I am looking out the window in Whispers pen and there is Max (my guardian dog) laying in Whisper's pen in the shade. He goes and lays in there every evening with her. She just walks around him. She actually plays with him and pulls his hair and heck, he doesn't care. I think they are best friends. She never steps on him either.
Trick and Belle and Lacy are doing very well. My aunt and uncle actually asked if they could borrow a couple horses to "mow" down their pasture so those three are going over there for a month to six weeks to "mow". They will have a ball. They don't live far so I had someone go get them and take them over there. I have plenty of pasture and room at the farm but I figured those three would be the best ones to go together since they have lived together for so long. Besides the horses may as well eat it rather than it being brush hogged and wasted. They will all come home before the weather turns to cold or bad.
Can't wait to get everyone back up to Missouri where I don't have to pay $15 for a bale of alfalfa and $10 for a bale of coastal hay. Feed stores in this area are even limiting the amount of hay you can buy at one time because they can't keep it in stock for very long. We sold over 500 bales of coastal in a week and we just can't get it in fast enough. The hay growers are making a ton of money cause they just keep raising the price because of the demand. Its terrible. The drought is being compaired to the drought in the 50's. There are wild fires burning EVERYWHERE and more starting every day. Our latest is near Houston. The get one half contained and 20 more start. Not all are huge but the fact that they exist at all is just bad. There is a lot of worry and fear from those of us that live in the country but then some of the fires have spread to housing additions as well. The Bastrop fire claimed somewhere in the neighborhood of 1500 homes. Its just sad. Makes you want to water your house daily.
Well time to get busy doing more STUFF. I mean its not like I can sleep lately anyway so might as well get things done.
Homeward bound soon.................I hope!
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