How LongSince My Last Post?

Caring for a Cushings pony with hindgut ulcers.
Driving to Hollister for more hay.
Waiting for baby goats
making saddlepads for the next product line.
Celebrating a wedding anniversary.
Tomorrow is a volunteer day for the rescue rabbits.

I made this collage for my etsy listings:

A Week Ago Yesterday

My shoer got divorced and moved away. My new shoer seemed great, but he wouldn't get back to me about scheduling another visit, or even when I could trailer to him. Yndi's feet were looking really bad. So I scheduled someone else It was a 2 hour trailer ride, so I scheduled the vet for a digestive issue on the same day, thus saving $100.00 in call fee.

The shoer found laminitis. Good thing the vet was coming. Lots of x-rays and progressive trimming. Long long day. Meds four times a day since then, that she didn't want to eat.

Now her ACTH test has coms back positive for Cushing's disease. I need to comparison shop for Pergolide. It can get expensive.

In the meantime: #horsebloggers #haynet is having a #5photos1day challenge:

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Challenge on Horsebloggers. There are some good blogs here too. Here is my challenge. These photos were taken yesterday. My connectivity problems kept me from blogging them. I spent most of my day volunteering at a Rabbit Haven Rescue adoption event in Sunnyvale.

So here. Two Gotland Ponies, a pregnant goat and a barn cat.

Pepper

Driving pretty girl Pepper on Kincaid RD, The Santa Clara County Sheriff passed me and said out the window, "...smiling all day because of you. You're awesome!"

 These are old photos from September of last year and do not reflect the current hair status.

 I've also added an orange feather boa on a bicycle flag and a yellow and orange bridle plume for visibility on the road.

Long Time...

Its been a long time. I've done a lot of things. Some have been good.

The weather broke.

Yndi has been laid up with severe hoof abscesses in both fronts for most of the time. Lots of poultice and soaking. I couldn't go anywhere with Pepper because she would panic at getting left. I couldn't load her up and take her with us because standing in a moving trailer would have been torture. I bought her a goat for company, but she was terrified.

I went to The National Drive in Lexington KY and had fun driving a Gotland pony that was loaned to me. Then I went on to Virginia to visit my cousin who showed me Yorktown and Colonial Williamsburg.

I spent a week in Reno, visiting my dad for Thanksgiving.

I did a lot of batik medallions to attach to saddlepads, and had so much trouble getting blank Lam-Cell pads to put them on that I decided I had to switch. So I did some market research and decided on PRI pads for 2018. There will be a price increase because, if I don't, I lose money even faster.

Of course, Pepper lost condition in that time, and I have started getting her back. The first 3/4 mile up from our house is killer steep and she cant even get all the way up. The first 1/4 mile makes her sore the next day. So: every other day we go the first 1/4 mile. I will be ready to take her to the park for better conditioning soon, if they would just deliver the new refrigerator so I could leave home!

PS The goat's boogery nose got better within a few days of arriving at our place. We named her Grendel. I think she's pregnant.