Cold damp 30s Kitties so cute Beau did good on cross ties and a lil kicky at grooming his tail

 Didnt get over to the barn until about 3pm, it has been snowing at home a little bit. The rain is cold and constant. I didnt have any cat food, the kitties were pretty aloof, meaning when I came into the driveway. I had opened a can of tuna at home and put into a zip lock. When I pulled in the farm road, there were a field full of turkeys in a sort of foggy field. I saw that Patti was mostly the only one there. All the horse were in because of the bad weather. The big change was that the new hay feeders in each of the paddocks. This is to keep the hay clean and dry. If the hay is in the sand or the dirty ground and then the horses eat it they can become very sick. 

Well I gave every horse and the goats 2 hand fulls of the pepermint treats. Took Beau out into the arena. I do not work with him in the arena any more. His behavior has changed into something that I am not going to tolerate. 

Long week it feels good to visit the barn. Last week I spent my time with him in the paddock doing some working on his pick up bandana and also was able to relax in the paddock.

Well this week, I brought him into the arena to let him run, jump and relax. He went over to the new horse that is in Cisco's stall and did the annoying that they do. I wanted to not respond but had to go over there and yell at him. I know I should go back and ignore him. I did some chores and let him rest and walk around til he became bored.It was nice.

I took him in after a while and put him on the cross ties. He was pretty good, I had to close his stall door so he didnt do anything stupid while I was walking with him like charge into his stall.

As I gently bushed.his tail by taking it in my hand and bringing it around to the side.

Beau responds to this in a terrible way, he takes his back leg and kicks out. It does not seem to be a good thing. Is he in pain? I think so.  He picked up his front feet really good I didnt ask him about the back, we are making progress and it can be slow.

Before getting to the tail I did his body with a soft brush and then saw that he was actually starting to shed. Beau's shedding is nothing like Duke's, where I had to work very hard to get his fur to come off and heloved being groomed so much. I totally bonded with him on the cross ties brushing him cleaning his feet brushing his mane. It was heaven. I miss him.

Well he cleaned up good and then I put Beau back into this stall, and grabbed his supplements so I can make up some bags. I made about 8 and will make more tomorrow I need some more fold over baggies for te job. I got the new Horseshine and am thinking about the Bug Off so that he might be happier this summer. Im going to upload some pics later.

Good visit last week Saturday

 I was only at the barn on saturday last week but it was a great visit, not as long as I wanted but thats been my life lately.

I was feeling alot better since my huge bump with Beau walking in, but I did locate the rock I had landed on. My huge bruise is the same size as my rock.

Sunday we were going up to April's house for a really great visit, so I had to make sure I was able to spend a nice day with my boy on Saturday. Even though I didnt stay long, it was long enough then, 
I locked my keys in the car. Bob came and picked me up, brought me home and then I took his car to go grocery shopping, I was so embarrased

Patti waited with me until Bob came it was very nice of her.

I spend the whole time up in the paddock iwth Beau, then I had to take off.

Quick Visit on Saturday, but exciting too

 Had to share out sthat I was able to go to see Beau on Saturday, late about 4pm or so
I was grabbing some hay for Steve's bunny, Sweetie and then I had to give everyone some oatmeal treats.
As I was walking around doing chores I notieced more birds singing, which I Like. Patti had come and gone. I gave her Sienna some extra love. I grabbed some treats and gave everyone one in their paddocks some oatmeal bars.

I had to go to the store before I got to the barn to make sure I had enough cat food for the cats, I truly love them. I parked my car so that they both could see it, blue truck. Sure enought they both poked their head out.

Then as I was grabbing soem stuff oout of my back of my truck, Krystyn turned into the driveway. I walked over and thanked her for taking care of Beau and we talked a little bit about her helping him and if he was a good guy or not. SHe said he behaved. I asked if she would be interested in doing soem ground work with me because he had gotten fresh. She said they were all alittle bit fresh from the winter.

We decided that a Wednesday night would be best for us. I felt relieved, Beau is a great horse but hes doing a domineering man thingin the arena. She semmed to understand.

I asked about Sienna and she said that she's worried about her beause she's having issues getting up thsi puts some concern into the way that I talk to Patti. She said Sienna is almost 30, this puts the pressure onher hopefully she's feeling better. there is a good chance that Patti shoudl ahve stopped riding her a couple of years ago. I like how Katz says to start Beau slow in teh arena to get him strong. I know thats important, but many do not.

Setting up some time with Krystyn I can work with him and get him a little bit stronger.

Well I was briig him in with Krystyn was briging in the horses.

We were walking backwards down the hill toward the barn as his little exercise. Well He spooked, so Im facing the barn, hes walking down the hill backwards,

a split second later, hes facing the barn door at the top of the hill, Im on ground on my hip, facting outward toward the paddocks. My phone flew far not sure how I wasnt using it.

Krystyn ran over but Beau was truly confused, he was pointing his nose down to me, on the ground, wondering why I was there. 

so Krystyn said, when I asked her, What happened how do I get so turned aorund?

He spooked pushed through me, I turned around a little in teh air, landed facing the other way, he was then facing toward me I stillhave his lead line and it was loose.

Not sure how it happened but would have loved ot see it.

 

That was Scary!

Weekend, one warm day, one cold day

 Weekend Forecast: Saturday springlike Sunday cold and frigid with possible ran and the tempatures are wind chilled to single digits. Ill head over but going earlier thann usual because we have a concert tonight goinng to see Theivery at the House of Blues.

Saturday finally no rush with Beau, warmer temps, less hazardous ice

 So slippery at the barn, I brought the sand so I could sand the areas around my car space and Patti's.  We both took some sand from my truck in cups and spread it around.

Too anxious in the arena

Good on cross ties

GREAT picking up his feet

Back feet are not comfortable and he kicks a weird way thats too close to me

Today I wore my helmut

The horses need to only get out in the bottom paddocks because the ice going up the path to the top of the hill is all ice, the back barn sliding door is frozen shut.

Beau was on the cross ties, with his massage pad and he stood there for about 25 minutes without complaining. Patti was there when I got there, she had Sienna on the ties, her hoof was tattered on the edges. Patti said that Krystyn said he was coming to help, later on Jack the farrier came and fixed up the hoof and left in no time.

When I got the bandana and treats, brought Beau out to the arena. He did fgood for a while, we did 3 back up sets of 10 each. 

3 short weekends only 1 day

Steves birthday meet up

• Feb 1
• In the arena

Feb 7 

• In the paddock
• Working with Beau in the paddock is my new favorite thing. we spend time together. Its sort of rocky but still is ok. 
• he does his picking up his hoof so good. Although the back leg is a really hard kick out, that I dont appreciate at all.  I keep my head away from him when I asked him to pick it up. He can pick it up quickly and also kick out and stomp hard.
• Also I love to take off his blanket, brush him out nice and soft and then then let him chill out inn the sun or if we go into the arena, roll in the dirt so he can feel his back on the dirt, then he runs off farting as usual.
• I brought up some hay for them, no one had hay just like the week before so I grabbed a ton of hay and gave everyone that didnt have hay but espeically brought a ton to Beau, he was happy.
• Hes doing great with his bandana trick, its really good when he has an apple treat in the bandana, he just starts chewing on the bandana and gets the apple flavor from him.
• I do like doing workouts in his paddock. Its really nice and we walk around. In the arena he goes cxrazy but in his paddock hes very good.
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• Feb 15th
• walked outside so icy it was a sheet of glare ice all over the farm. 
• Found out that Beau ripped his blanket apart when he crashed the gate and ran off on Krystyn earlier this week. 
• Beau I brought outside we walked around in the brown slightly sanded ice he was fine he stepped with his brand new shoes on the slick ice and did a cartoon animation slip of all his hoofs, so funny. Krystyn pulled up just as he was doing it. Back to the safe area, we just went back over to the front of the barn, walked aorund and then back into the barn.
• The door on the arena was frozen open so I did not let him do a crazy run, hes just not a good boy with me yet. we walked alittle and back on the cross ties
• We did his massage pad for maybe 25 minutes, he hasnt lasted the full 30 minutes all all this year.
• Just as I was leaving, I went into the office to check on stuff, I pulled open his supplemennt drawer and it was empty, I forogot to do 2 weeks last week.  I grabbed all the supplements, in the bag made sure I had cosaquin, magnesium and the horse shine ready. Make a weeks supple and will make the 2 weeks next weekend.