Maybe the Holidays should be more accurately identified as a Sprint combined with a Marathon…

Today for example:

Wake up.

Brush multiple cats off face.

Feed cats; feed hounds; feed puppies; clean puppy kennels.

Go outside (take multiple deep breaths to clear my head of the morning house-fumes).

Feed chickens/turkeys/rabbits/goats/pigs…….and then the horses.

Check on Poppy (who had decided to opportunistically break down the already dry-rotted fence posts yesterday…….and then gorge on a compressed alfalfa block…….and then subsequently colic…….).

Yesterday included the usual colic treatment…….check the gums…….check the rectal temperature…….slam-dunk an I/M shot of Banamine…….listen for gut sounds…….watch for fresh manure…….

So this AM…re-check gum re-fill time,  re-check poop, re-check temperature.

Her appetite’s just great.

She’s poo’ing good.

She’s where she should be…..in her own paddock with her own personal Tifton hay flakes (she’d rather have the alfalfa).

Her gate is securely closed with hay string…….plenty of hay string…….not pretty……..but it will suffice until I have more time to fix it properly…….whenever that will be…

Medicate Addy……paint her soles with 7% Iodine…….hold them up and let them air dry……..just how much do her hooves weigh!?!

Collect a couple “road apples” from one of Addy’s steaming, fresh piles…….store them in a zip-lock bag……..put them in your purse, so you don’t forget.

***Road Apples…….Delicious Fruit?…….Not!***

Drive to Stevie Wonder’s office…….drop off “said road apples” to be sent out for parasitic analysis.

My younger daughter’s horse is pasture-boarded just around the corner…..so…..we go and visit Anja for a little bit.

Then fly (via my Ford dually) to the store for last minute baking staples and supplies…….

…..and puppy food…….lots more puppy food…….lots more…….(for the little poo-producing munchkins)

…..fly back home…..unload all.

…..feed lunch (late) to the poopers…….who are eager to produce more poop…

…..work on painting Christmas projects (can’t write about said-projects as the recipients read my posts…..and that would ruin their surprise…..I’ll write about them later…)

…..put elbow in paint can…..

…..put hand on wet paint…..

…..put wrong end of paint brush in mouth…..

…..got hair stuck in glue…..

…..snagged arms and fingers unrolling surplus/barbed wire for additional project…….

 

…..WHY are you starting an additional project…..?…..

You realize it’s getting dark…….there’s still so much more to do…….

…..medicate Addy again…….feed the horses…….

…..oops…..forgot to make dinner…….figure something out…….

Oh No!  You forgot the  @#%$%#@  cookies…….!

Gotta make the  @#$#%@#  cookies…….!

…..and start on the first stages of the gingerbread house…….

…..and I think it’s about time to start on the traditionally-late Christmas photo & letter too…….

Oh, and I have to remember to get the surplus road apples out of my purse…….