I should’ve known when I saw this red sky that staying in bed and not getting up to deal with the day would’ve been the sensible choice.
Because later in the morning, I was met with this…….
And, while I was putting it all back together, Albie let himself out to explore a bit. Luckily, he couldn’t get out any further because…..
We have a British phrase that is very useful – belt and braces.
(from the Dictionary )
(of a policy or action) providing double security, by using two means to the same end.
The belt……
…and the braces! There will be no escaping here.
I put some new bedding (hemp) into the containers so the outside ponies could lie down if they want to. I was told that the ponies wouldn’t eat it….. but yet…..
So while Newt and Waffle were busy stuffing their faces with this new bedding, I was frantically searching the internet to see if their new diet would kill them.
Apparently it is not good to eat in large quantities. I told them this.
But luckily, I thought to myself, I have the vet coming to take Storm’s blood so if the ponies want to be ill from eating the container bedding, I have just the chap to deal with it. The words “bloody ponies” sprung to mind quite a lot today.
Oh dear – escapees and bedding eaters! Best to grab a drink and go back to bed.
Hemp -er, isn’t that marijuana? Just a thought …
I don’t think they make horse bedding out of marijuana
https://www.aubiose.org/uk/aubiose/
Hemp, or cannabis with less than 0.3 percent THC, can also be grown to create other kinds of products, including:
paper
clothing
textiles
animal feed
plastic
food products, such as hemp seed, hemp milk, hemp protein powder, or hemp oil
Hemp plants and marijuana plants are both the same species.
Legally, hemp is defined as a cannabis plant that contains 0.3 percent or less THC, while marijuana is a cannabis plant that contains more than 0.3 percent THC.
Hope your lot have read that.
Stoned ponies – that’s all you need. Storm & Albie get up to enough trouble as it is – the mayhem they could create when under the influence of ‘interesting’ substances does not bear thinking about (I am giggling a little, not at your problems, but the thought of a stoned & naughty Shetland).
(Although after the the last few weeks, nobody would blame you if ~you~ started eating the bedding )