Aubie’s St. Patrick’s Day Friday Night Conversation

I managed to pick up a virus at work. I felt blah for most of last week and then I spiked a fever yesterday. The worst part is I didn’t seem to sleep very well. I was falling asleep on the couch but once I moved to bed I couldn’t sleep. So this should be interesting. I’m back out on the couch. The cat has been more than loving. I don’t know what I’m going to eat. I have had a fever in years.

Those March facts are interesting. I noticed my calendar has mistakenly put Fat Tuesday (Paczki Day) this month. I found this on Facebook the other day, “We sprang so far forward it’s winter again.”

Well, there's 111 posts on last week's thread... Do ya' ever noticed when something is that good you just don't want to let go?! 😉

We were scheduled to have our fenceline painted on St Patty's Day. Not green and and now canceled because it's supposed to rain really hard tomorrow morning.

So aside from the rain, our weather is suppose to get somewhat warmer again. We woke up yesterday morning @ 38°F.

Dinner is our standard salmon. When we grew up it was always chicken on Friday night.

I'd say our horse's shedding is about halfway through. On the other hand he's really thin coated so it's not a terrible job.

When my husband gets home from golf, hope to saddle up our horse and do a little bit of riding in the yard. He (horse not hubby) was a bit of a pinhead earlier this week so we'll see how it goes. Nothing terrible just didn't seem like he wanted to do much and he (horse not hubby, but maybe I won't go there!) had an opinion about everything.

We happened to be near a Trader Joe's yesterday. I was sort of disappointed because usually their eggs are less expensive than Walmart and less expensive than Aldi's. Yesterday they were not. We eat a lot of eggs so we usually have about three dozen in the house. Like I've mentioned before, hubby grew up on a farm with 50,000 chickens. He asked me to not have chickens here. I'm okay with that since I am spoiled in every other way.

@tempest: Hope you feel better! It's hard to not be able to sleep when you're not feeling good.

I'm also sick - started out with a sudden fever on Wednesday while I was at work and I just knew... Woke up with a sinus headache, fever, and just an icky nose Thursday morning. I stuck it out and went to my lesson, had a very educational ride on Minnie, but came home feeling worse! This morning the sinus headache is behind my eyes, but fortunately the ibuprofen is making quick work! I made a 'clean out the fridge, pantry, spice cabinet, and hope that there is enough to make a warm soup' yesterday, and it turned out alright. A cross between chicken noodle (with no chicken), minestrone (with no beef), and vegetable soup (with limited vegetables).

I hope you feel better and get some rest @tempest. Not being able to sleep is the worst. Last week I took Thursday and Friday off of work, as I was up pretty much all night in bed, unable to fall asleep (even though I could hardly keep my eyes open reading my book). As soon as the sun came up and the pets were fed, I immediately fell asleep as soon as I laid down. It's frustrating! I'm also someone once I'm having a hard time getting asleep, I get frustrated, which makes it even harder to fall asleep!

Today is my Grandma's second birthday in Heaven today. These threads were my solace two years ago as the cancer was slowly taking her from us. I'm so glad these have continued - and helped us all in some way - helping get us through Covid lockdowns, family illness, horse misfortunes, all of it...

Happy Friday! I'm staring out the window at a dreary, drizzly day here. BUT! It's well above freezing, and was yesterday too. Our massive snowbanks are less than half the size they were yesterday morning, which warms the cockles of my weary heart.

This has been me this whole month so far:



I'm still taking time out of the saddle for my tailbone and pelvis to finish healing, but I'll probably start riding again next week. Who knew that simple wipeout on the ice nearly a month ago would bruise me SO SO badly. I even had my coach come and ride Elle for me this week just to get her working her body properly, in a way I can't make her from the ground. But both Elle and my coach were stiff and ouchy with all these weather changes, haha, so it wasn't the longest ride. We're all getting older and feeling it in our bones, I guess!!

Somehow I don't have any fun new Elle pics this week, not sure how that happened. However, I ordered her a fancy new pair of lime green velcro running shoes so we can continue our walks along the paved road near the barn without her getting ouchy or wearing too much, hopefully. I opted for the lime green because I figured I'd at least have a hope in heck of finding one if it fell off. So expect adorable pics of those soon!! Should be here by the end of next week if the tracking is right.

My mood has been dreadful lately. I have no focus and no energy. March is always the worst month for my seasonal depression, even though it's not "supposed" to work like that. My serotonin apparently didn't get that memo. Still, I'm at least functional, so the medication to keep me on track during these slumpy times is helping substantially, even if it's not perfect. I do eat well and exercise and get my vitamin D and all those things, but to a certain degree I just need to wait it out.

Dinner tonight is probably going to be rainbow trout (frozen Costco fillets), rice, and steamed vegetables. Won't be the fanciest but hey, it's food.

Not to rub it in @SteadyOn , but we are having about three days of drop dead gorgeous weather! It got to 67 yesterday. It's now 57, expected to get somewhere above 60 today and tomorrow. And SUNSHINE! (Cue song...there's a bright golden haze on the meadow...). The wee froggies are finally singing. The feral daffodils are struggling to bloom a month late. I feel like I've shed ten years, even though I gained one yesterday! LOL!

In celebration, today is Tail Washing Day. At least for Dixie. Laddie might have to wait, but Dixie has a lavish, wavy and positively disgusting tail. I've been loath to touch it for months. I filled the barn water heater and plugged it in. Got the barn cleaned and felt spry enough to rake up and remove one of the manure piles that has accumulated behind the barn in the bad weather.

The mud in the horse tracks and the garden became dry and tolerably solid with yesterday's warmth and breeze.

A bit later we'll continue dismantling the wrecked greenhouse in the garden.

Sunshine...the staff of life.

I have reassembled Dixie's "kit" and transferred it to the tack locker in the barn, bringing Laddie's saddle and bridle in and putting his boots away. I donated my brand new merino fleece seat saver to a "good claws"...Fiona the house kitty thinks it's very posh! But right now she's soaking up a sunbeam.

Barney, the feral cat, is making fairly regular appearances and no longer pays me any mind when he's curled up on the hay in the loft and I climb up to drop hay down to the horses.

I won't be riding Dixie for awhile, but I hope to begin ground work with her again tomorrow. I feel she needs a period of unmounted exercise before I get on her. I need some of that too!

dogpatch said:

Not to rub it in @SteadyOn , but we are having about three days of drop dead gorgeous weather! It got to 67 yesterday. It's now 57, expected to get somewhere above 60 today and tomorrow. And SUNSHINE! (Cue song...there's a bright golden haze on the meadow...). The wee froggies are finally singing. The feral daffodils are struggling to bloom a month late. I feel like I've shed ten years, even though I gained one yesterday! LOL!

In celebration, today is Tail Washing Day. At least for Dixie. Laddie might have to wait, but Dixie has a lavish, wavy and positively disgusting tail. I've been loath to touch it for months. I filled the barn water heater and plugged it in. Got the barn cleaned and felt spry enough to rake up and remove one of the manure piles that has accumulated behind the barn in the bad weather.

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Haaa, that's okay, I can rub something else in. 😂

Heated barn, with wash stall that has hot water, means bath time came extra early this year. Elle had her full body warm bath a week ago! The water was running dark rusty brown off of her. 🤢



Yes I know I already shared this pic in my journal, but just lookit those suds and the airplane ears 😘 Guess there's an Elle pic this week after all.

Happy belated, @dogpatch !!

Happy Saint Patrick's day! My horses are shedding like crazy Ice is turning golden on his head see summer coat on his neck under the white winter coat.

Weather is ridiculous had yet another storm more snow to add onto 4 feet we already have. Cold today high 13 degrees was 2 above this morning at 7am with very blustery north west winds winters back till next week when it warms up to high 30s low 40s.

Tank heater I bought just over a month ago not working as it should ice in water trough. Hopefully it last long enough to finish out this winter at the rate it's going it will be July before snows gone.

No big plans for the weekend might make a trip to Menard to get a new barn fan. Fan I have has been repaired 3 times and it broke again late summer. It's 23 years old think it's done it time paid for it's self an then some.

Dinner tonight is hamburgers an salad desert is homemade peanut butter cookies an Ice cream.
There's enough fresh snow to actually get in some riding on our very frisky haven't been ridden in over a month horses. Because of so much snow they only have maybe a 50 foot area to move around In there corrals.

@tempest hope you get feeling better soon!

@tempest love the pictures of the old barns. A fat wife and a full barn never did a man harm. Old saying but I don't know from where I read it a long time ago.

Mar 20 ... hmm I keep telling myself as I do chores for a friend on holidays and for Sis that it can't come too soon as I wheel the manure out through snow drifts. Nine horses to clean stalls for and some of them have the nerve to say "You missed a spot here"
We had an all night rain here last night so a lot of snow has gone now but oh the mud.
I was looking at recipes yesterday for the slow cooker and found a nice Mac 'n Cheese so leftovers will be my supper. I took some over to Sis yesterday but after all the stall cleaning I ended up eating a good portion of it as I was that hungry.

SteadyOn said:

Haaa, that's okay, I can rub something else in. 😂

Heated barn, with wash stall that has hot water, means bath time came extra early this year. Elle had her full body warm bath a week ago! The water was running dark rusty brown off of her. 🤢

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Yes I know I already shared this pic in my journal, but just lookit those suds and the airplane ears 😘 Guess there's an Elle pic this week after all.

Happy belated, @dogpatch !!

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Oh darn, @SteadyOn the tradeoffs are so hard! LOL!