Our kids would probably like it if we got drunk and had a hangover on a Sunday morning, but that’s just not the case! So, we got up relatively early and got to work on the garden, and several other jobs around the house too!
The garden needed some seeds sown, and some weeds pulled. We finally filled all the soil in the back with vegetable seeds, which never got done up till now because I have always had either other things going on or a two year old that I couldn’t tend to on my own while working the garden and keeping her out of mischief. Today I got the full help of the entire family enlisted, and we put in loads. The soil here is so sandy that the only place we have dared to plant has been in a place in the back where topsoil has been laid down. But we ran out of space, so as an experiment we put some corn in the sand in the front, in the middle of the circle drive, where some small bits of old farming gear is. I thought the corn plants would make a lovely backdrop, like there is a miniature farm there.
The next gig on the agenda was to sort out lunch, then try to work with the horses. Missus decided to give them a comb through their mane’s and maybe try braiding them. The braiding will require stronger bands than Missus has round the house, so that’s on the shopping list. The coming could have gone better for her too. We did get the pony, Umber, to cooperate for a good going over. She only weights about 750 or 800 pounds, so she is easy to control compared to Precious, who weighs in at about 1,000, and Patches, who comes in at about 1,250. After finishing Umber everyone gave up and went in, except me. I stood there with the horses till Precious, the one we thought least likely to get a comb today, came up and let me give her a good combing over. Patches kept wanting to know what was going on, so after finishing with Precious he got a good work over too. The funny thing is that I was able to work both of those horses together, and untied. It shows what patience can accomplish.
I was pretty worn out from being in the sun for so long after combing the horses, and of course doing the gardening. But the next job was to put up a saddle rack in the shed and move the saddles from the horse trailer onto it, so I got that done, then had a lovely Shepherd’s Pie that Jordan made.
After supper, Jordan and I went out to the shed and sorted through some tack and such, and found reigns to replace the ones that had broken on my halter for Patches. I also tried the reigns in a position that would give less leverage pulling down against him, and that worked out fairly well, though he is a bit of a jerk and needs to learn to cooperate quite a bit more than he does. Patches has probably never actually been broke properly, and he certainly has not been trained properly, a problem we are having with all three of our horses. We are learning as fast and as much as we can so as to determine if we have horse problems, or our horses have people problems!
By the time I have finished with hoeing, raking, shoveling, planting, watering, and doing it all over again a few times, then horsing around, the sorting and checking and moving and assembling and saddling and riding and unsaddling and sorting and putting away and everything else, I am pretty tired! I did my jobs today, and the chickens did theirs, and everyone else did theirs as well. I am glad the week is starting again! I could use the break! It would have been easier to just get really, really, REALLY drunk and pass out for a day or two! But we got more done!
Need to get pictures to follow, I know…
Kelsey J Bacon