First Post of the Day
There is so much happening right now, I could do several mish mosh posts and I would still have things to write about! And those mish moshers would be looooong.
So, I'm going to do single topic posts, and start with the horses. And as Tim mused (and has said before), "Something always happens when I leave."
From mares foaling unexpectedly (Dolly with Sultanna, Sultanna with Little Feller, and Sultanna with Two Socks) to compressor tanks unexpectedly triggering and more, it does seem that when he needs to travel, something happens. It doesn't happen every time I'm in charge of the barn, but there have been enough times that it has become a running joke between us
And this time, not only did we have the air compressor issue, the very next day when I checked the horses, a strand of fence was down.
I almost missed it; it was the bottom strand of wire and was lying in the grass inside the pasture.
The downed wire started at the gate by the water trough
went south and turned left at the fence corner,
and then continued east to the next gate. That's a high tensile wire ratchet/tightener on the wire and lying in the grass. Its edges are pointed and not too sharp, but I still didn't want to leave it lying out in the field.
I didn't think that particular strand of wire was electrified, but I still went into Tim's shop, grabbed some work gloves, and put them on first. Then I walked around the fence, pulling the downed wire through to the outside all the way back to the gate by the trough.
That done, I called Riley to report the downed fencing. He and I both knew it was highly unlikely that the horses were going to go down on their knees and crawl under the other three strands of wire to go gallivanting, but he said he'd come out and fix it before his Dad returned home.
Then I texted Tim who made his tongue-in-cheek comment about things happening when he leaves town. He also asked me if I knew who had done it or had any suspicions. I didn't see it happen, but I suspect it was Eazy. First, Sultanna and Hokey have lived there for years and never taken fence down nor have I seen them testing fence, shoving their heads through it to graze on the other side, or reaching underneath the fence to graze.
Eazy, however? He was doing just that during one of the barn checks this week - reaching underneath the fourth wire of the fence to graze. Nine acres to graze from, and still the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Yep!
"Why are you looking at me?? I didn't do it!"
Tim gets home today. I'll still do a barn check after church and hopefully there won't be a third "something" that happens before he arrives!
Stay 'tooned!
