Life is Aggravating

Life is aggravating. Sometimes the best you can do is throw food at your animals and do other stuff that has to be done. Yesterday was a no-pony day. Also a no-art day.

I had some routine tests to schedule. Bureaucracy,  incompetency and cost savings means that it took my over 2 hours and driving into town.
"Sign in and take a seat."
"I'm here to MAKE and appointment."
"Yes. Sign in and take a seat."

Ten people in a room, waiting to make appointments. Forty minutes. "No Cell Phones" There are two workers, they speak three languages. This is inadequate. The computer has a virus. It keeps crashing.

When it is my turn, I am informed that I must go to the town of  Mountain View, 2.5 hours from home. "I am not going to Mountain View." She figures it out. I do not have to go to Mountain View.

Of course, when you live so far from town, you never drive there and do just one thing. You fit in other errands. I got home after dark. Thank goodness for slow feed nets.

A saddlepad vendor called me about an order. I had ordered some colors on that were not available. The website had given me colors on my order that did not exist on the website. We got it figured out, but they are not the colors of my choice. That would have taken a wholesale order with the manufacturer for more money that I am prepared to invest right now. But these are the colors(piping colors not shown).

Agh.

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.