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IvyWoods, I used to do a LOT of riding of all kinds. My oldest mare is an arabian! I used her for FunShow events and when I ran barrels, I generally placed with her. She is so incredibly smart- much smarter than my other two horses. I've just recently gotten down to 3 horses, a much more manageable number for me. I had 5 and sold down to my favorites that I just could not get rid of. Now I just trail ride, there is good riding around here down the dirt roads and there is a really nice horse park that I trailer out to. My friends and I always plan a girls weekend out at Kanopolis State Park and we all drive up our horses and spend a couple of nights there and ride the trails all day. My horses have lost some weight too this summer. I recently switched their feed to a higher protein/fat content to beef them up a bit so they don't get too skinny. They have the pasture and hay, but its not enough for them, so I grain them everyday. Are those two arabians ridable that you have out there? Funny about the goats eating the downed tree.
Chicken Danz, isn't it funny how much they love those misters? My turkey sits right in front of it and purposely puts her head straight into the blast of mist and then she'll move over a bit and shake her head and do it all over again when she's hot. Sounds like you were really busy yesterday with all the dirt hauling and setting up the tank to be used as a little pond. Did your dog ever figure out it was there? Cute that the ducks figured it out right away.
So- you won't believe this- but we had a tornado last night! Blew all of my lumber around that I had outside and shook the house up pretty good. We didn't have a direct hit- I think it was just pretty darned close, is all. Our power went off immediately after it and I called our electric CoOp and they said that a tornado hit some power lines and messed up trees and lines and it was a big mess. We were out of power for 6 hours while they tried to get it all sorted out. We weren't sure it was a tornado at first, either- my Dh and I looked at each other wide eyed during it and I kept asking him- is that the train out there, or could that be a tornado? We kind of laughed it off but it did freak us out- but we kept saying- NO tornados this late in summer!! So that was crazy. I woke up this morning and there are 2X4's and debris in my front lawn! Whoa!
It tore up our pool and bent some of our fence rails. I just came in from cleaning up the debris in the yard. Our pool was damaged beyond repair so we had to take it apart. It was one of those intex metal frame pools. 15 ft diameter and 4 ft deep. Something ripped a hole in it and emptied it. The wind picked it up and threw half of it over our 6 ft fence. The metal frame was bent in half. It was crazy! The chickens and the coop handled it very well though. I hope everyone else had minimal damage from the storms.
IvyWoods, I used to do a LOT of riding of all kinds. My oldest mare is an arabian! I used her for FunShow events and when I ran barrels, I generally placed with her. She is so incredibly smart- much smarter than my other two horses. I've just recently gotten down to 3 horses, a much more manageable number for me. I had 5 and sold down to my favorites that I just could not get rid of. Now I just trail ride, there is good riding around here down the dirt roads and there is a really nice horse park that I trailer out to. My friends and I always plan a girls weekend out at Kanopolis State Park and we all drive up our horses and spend a couple of nights there and ride the trails all day. My horses have lost some weight too this summer. I recently switched their feed to a higher protein/fat content to beef them up a bit so they don't get too skinny. They have the pasture and hay, but its not enough for them, so I grain them everyday. Are those two arabians ridable that you have out there? Funny about the goats eating the downed tree.
Chicken Danz, isn't it funny how much they love those misters? My turkey sits right in front of it and purposely puts her head straight into the blast of mist and then she'll move over a bit and shake her head and do it all over again when she's hot. Sounds like you were really busy yesterday with all the dirt hauling and setting up the tank to be used as a little pond. Did your dog ever figure out it was there? Cute that the ducks figured it out right away.
So- you won't believe this- but we had a tornado last night! Blew all of my lumber around that I had outside and shook the house up pretty good. We didn't have a direct hit- I think it was just pretty darned close, is all. Our power went off immediately after it and I called our electric CoOp and they said that a tornado hit some power lines and messed up trees and lines and it was a big mess. We were out of power for 6 hours while they tried to get it all sorted out. We weren't sure it was a tornado at first, either- my Dh and I looked at each other wide eyed during it and I kept asking him- is that the train out there, or could that be a tornado? We kind of laughed it off but it did freak us out- but we kept saying- NO tornados this late in summer!! So that was crazy. I woke up this morning and there are 2X4's and debris in my front lawn! Whoa!
It tore up our pool and bent some of our fence rails. I just came in from cleaning up the debris in the yard. Our pool was damaged beyond repair so we had to take it apart. It was one of those intex metal frame pools. 15 ft diameter and 4 ft deep. Something ripped a hole in it and emptied it. The wind picked it up and threw half of it over our 6 ft fence. The metal frame was bent in half. It was crazy! The chickens and the coop handled it very well though. I hope everyone else had minimal damage from the storms.
