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Breakfast for All and Cat TV

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There is an order to my mornings.

The older horses and ponies are last on my catering list, after the sheep and the other Shetland ponies.  However, they don’t mind and I leave them with their own bucket in a strategic spot in the field going back to collect the empty buckets afterwards.

My breakfast is considerably later – between 9 – 10 a.m. and sometimes I share the table with Monster which I do not approve of but he refuses to listen.  He likes to annoy or help, depending on his mood.

Today it was annoy.

And Monster was very unhelpful. I was trying to order Pepper some special food for her sensitive tummy (day off from eating again yesterday *** sigh ***).  Monster was having none of it and I think changed my password and probably ordered a little something for himself too.

To get him off my iPad, I put Cat TV (Youtube) on for him and he settled down to watch it while I ordered Pepper her special stuff.

This afternoon was, again, unhelpful in its own way. I had an emergency dental appointment in town and Pepper needed to have her stitches out too.  OH kindly offered to take Pepper to the vet, as dental appointments are like hen’s teeth around here.

The stitches are now out and everything looks healthy.  The vet, apparently, said these things take a long time to heal.  So Pepper is sporting a new dressing and bandage and we will continue with dressings for a little while longer.

And I’m glad I got to see the dentist too. Talking of teeth….. Lambie is on good form (thank you for asking).

Icelandic horse eating

Never Again!

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Sorry for the 24hr absence.  I pressed a button when I was trying to update the blog. However, I have learned my lesson.  I will never do that again, I promise.

Go back 36 hours (yesterday morning) when I had a very helpful meeting with Rene Looper from Tuminds – a dedicated social media training business – about my blog. The meeting was very useful and, as I am self-taught, I wanted to know if I was covering all my bases and getting it right.  I have homework now.

Anyway, we chatted about the blog’s statistics and I said “hang on, I can tell you what the numbers are and where from” but I couldn’t – nothing appeared.  So after the meeting, I decided to upgrade as WordPress kept saying I should (I thought I might get my very useful statistics back too) and with that the blog vanished into “Critical Error” territory.  I felt sick.

Anyway, I am lucky as Nick Miners is the poor chap ultimately responsible for my blog’s health and he took over and sorted everything. It was touch and go at one point and I have promised never ever to touch anything ever.

And we have a storm coming.  A biggie – 2 days of scary stuff.  OH and I have shut sheds, cleared anything that might blow away, and put food/water in every hen/duck shed ready to keep them shut in for 48 hours, if necessary.  A small price to pay for staying alive.

Shed with door shut

I’ve also moved the old horses and ponies into a sheltered field that has long grass and high walls. I’ve not put on rugs (lots of rain) as it is going to be warm and everyone is very fat – life is a juggling act.

Icelandic horse in field Icelandic horse watching Shetland ponies

For the little Shetlands, I shut one of the containers (for safety) and have haynets ready.

closed container Two Shetland ponies in container

And then this morning, we’ve had an equine dentist visit – all the old horses and ponies had their teeth done (an expensive but essential requirement) and I feel better knowing they are going into winter as good as they can be.

Horse with Equine Dentist

So, wish us luck. Candles are ready for when the power goes and electricals all charged up. All we can hope is to find everyone safe and well afterwards.