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

@JCnGrace you really do live in a place where “you can’t get here from there”😂😂. My kinda place🤠👍🤠👍

I’m sorry you didn’t get your hair cut. if it gets long enough by Summer (which is a whole ‘nuther subject given the winter we’re having , put it up in a rooster tail to keep it it out of your face At the barn, I can’t stand my hair hanging in my face at home but I’ll do everything I can to cover it when I go to town😂😂. Decent hair is about all I have left - “decent” being the operative 🥸

I keep saying this but I fear that “m” word is fast becoming a reality, probably today, if the steep hill is dry enough; it’s always that hill, where I slide off the tractor, that needs mowed first🤯🤯

Those horses, Rusty & Duncan, were baaaaad eggs Monday morning. They decided they were not coming in for breakfast - not even when I tried to herd them on the 4-wheeler, which I do all the time. They were too busy trying to figure out what was happening at the westerly neighboring farm, 2,000 feet away. They wanted the gate open to the main pasture. Well - that - did - not happen. They have 3-4 acres between the house and barn for the night and that’s where they stayed until they figured out two hours later, they had better get in the barn for breakfast If they wanted to see the main pasture.

Turn about being fair play, I didn’t see them go in the barn to wait for supper but I did see them come back out and head for the main pasture. I had to go after them but it was my fault as they only have so much wait in them and it was probably pay back for the morning😇🥰😇🥰

Duncan will be here one year on March 31st. He has come a long way from not knowing how to graze to now not being afraid to take the lead out to pasture. He sort of seems to occasionally be sharing the lead with Rusty who never did want to be a leader but is trying his darndest these days to be one🥰🥰

A just because picture. Rusty waiting for a cookie while Duncan watches the ridge for any action❤

The creek/river (depends on who you ask) that we ride along has dropped rather precipitously in the last week. It flows approximately southeast from an impoundment, meanders through a stretch of wetland generously built by some beavers, narrows below their dam, runs by the co-op farm and feeds another impoundment. While, granted, there was a break in the beavers' dam, it shouldn't drop quite like that. It turned a funny color on Friday, back to normal today, and also smells rank. Not as rank as Friday actually but like a metallic/green sort of smell. I'm not sure what's going on. Feels like someone adjusted something upstream. It has been mostly dry, but not that dry.

Dry enough to run, though! Jasper is full of beans as always. Someone (one of the kids likely) adjusted his girth which drives me INSANE. It's a diamond-shaped rope girth. They set the girth so that the middle of the diamond is centered before you tighten it - so if you tighten it, it ends up in his left armpit. Puts me in a cursing mood every time.

The concert last night was wonderful. I think I like outdoor venues better - and I really should've remembered to bring my earplugs. The Boss et al put on a great show. Some people next to me were grousing about not hearing certain songs, but they did play for 3+ hours. Just enjoy the wonder of live music.

That dachshund must have been somehow, someway related to our malamute/chow mix. She would park herself underneath the horse trailer anytime we started packing for a trip. LOL

1. I had already decided to cut Duncan’s oats back to zero and after seeing him carrying on in the rain today, I can’t wait until the bag is empty😂😂. He is just too full of himself, plus I have to press pretty hard to feel his ribs.

2. It rained all day, until around 4:00 PM. we are plenty soggy but nothing compared to what some areseeing.

3. I am still watching ”The Farmer Wants A Wife” on Fox. It is stupid but not quite as stupid as the other dating shows. I just know the drama is soon going to kick up a few notches.

I still can’t believe Jennifer Nettles agreed to host this show — they must have paid her a lot of money.

4. I still haven’t mowed - I think the word is procrastinate. With this rain and hitting close to 80 tomorrow—————I‘ll be watching it grow another inch or two🤯🤯

5. IHeart Music Awards will be on Fox Monday night. I’ll record that so I can forward past Anything I don’t want to hear🥸🥸

6. There were tornadoes in California - I hope everyone is safe, as well as all of those in the line of fire across the U.S. 2023 seems to be The Year Of The Storms.

@JCnGrace I’m glad you made it to the salon 🤠🤠. Stray hairs - that’s a really ugly subject isn’t it🫣😂

Chinese food—- I used to love Chinese food - until around 2010? I was still at my part time retirement job. We went to a local spotlessly clean Chinese restaurant for lunch. I was a dog’s hair away from throwing up when I found half a cockroach in the rice I was about to put on my fork (I can’t use chop sticks). This was after I had already eaten a few bites🤮🤮

I reported them, an inspection was allegedly done, they continued to stay open, and I have not eaten Chinese food since. My ex also called it cat food😂😂

My area is already at a Level 2 risk for bad weather Friday night. we will see more rain but how much is anybody’s guess. I am so glad this farm has naturally good drainage. The little ravine below the barn is a good four feet deep water drains to it from two directions, three if we are pummeled with rain. It then flows west to the bottomland where the horses like to graze. They are savvy about not getting themselves in too deep because there is a lot of clay mud under mud that water.

Yesterday Duncan came flying up thru the front pasture. He barely slowed down to make the very muddy turn through the paddock, up to the barn. He made that muddy turn without a single slide but when he does stuff like this, all I see is his fractured splint bone x-ray flashing before my eyes. He is giving me the rest of the gray hair Joker didn‘t get to.

Duncan has a beautiful “Arab floaty motion” to him when he trots BUT he sets those big hooves down hard. He would be a rough trot to sit if one couldn’t post. I can hear him coming from a far distance when he is trotting🥰🥰