Overdue update

I remember as a kid looking always forward to the next great thing, a holiday, day off you know 'fun' stuff. These days? Fun stuff, schmun-stuff. I look forward to the days I'm not fighting fires. Simple, 'normal' days... That's enough for me.

I was way overdue an update, though I actually wrote a couple posts I never posted. I was in a funk so it was better I didn't post.

Gator had an awful COPD attack & has completed a course of steroids. Hay always soaked from now on. I'm looking at a hay steamer. He has been turned out in the actual pasture with his one pasture-mate (we'll call him 'D'). He immediately declared Gator the boss & they get along like peas & carrots.

The girls had their yearly well-pooch check. Vet has no ideas except low thyroid on Autumns bald spot either. Turns out her thyroid is a bit low so we're adjusting her meds.

It's been 'normal' the past week (I hesitate to write that... I think I keep jinxing myself...). I am so grateful for normal. Miss everyone!

Boos Butt, work and stuffs

Of course I can't simply comment so I am posting to essentially discuss.

Autumn's rump is still perplexing me. I don't put anything on it anymore. There is hair just no undercoat ie FLUFF which she has so much of everywhere else. I'm hoping time willbe all she needs but an occasional limp (weather fronts or laying on it to long) and a nekkid spot may be what she most visibly will take from her broken leg ordeal.

My plan with Gator is togo slow... He'll be 16 this year and he's in good shape for the mst part, why push it, right?

The job is leaps & bounds better than my last. I should have said that. I'm a people watcher/observer by nature. I share a large cube with 3 other ladies. All 3 are great but one... Well some people I guess spend their whole lives fighting themselves and focused on me-me-me ... This one in particular also talks A LOT. I just want to grab her and say IT ISN'T ALWAYS ABOUT YOU, if you'd see that you would be happier and more pleasant. I can't though. There's of course a lot more to it but that's the jist of the vent. :)

Spring, people & gettin' back on - in no particular order

Well, this weather is nasty. I love snow but even for me it's unwelcome today. I live in Hampton Roads Virginia for heavens sake! Enough already! Last weekend was cloudy and windy but pretty nice, warmer, felt like spring. I am ready for Spring especially when it comes to riding.

Speaking of which, I did ride this weekend. Both Saturday & Sunday. Not much accomplished really but it was wonderful. I didn't realize on Saturday that Gator hadn't had breakfast yet. It was also very windy. I had not ridden in... A couple months probably, embarrassingly enough. He was ready to go, had to fuss at him for literally hitting the gas before I was all the way on. I was still glad he felt that good though. When the grain was thrown he could hear but he was a good boy. We did only a little walking & trotting; it probably was only 15 minutes. I called it good and let him go eat. He's jiggly and still coughed a little so a short ride was okay. Sunday was 20-30 minutes still walk & trot, still quite windy but we were good. He thought about being silly once but I didn't mind. It's amazing how so many muscles can be so sore from such short rides; I guess I'm jiggly too. I wonder if he's sore... He coughed some still again but worked out of it pretty well. I think work is good for his breathing, not too much or too hard but it makes him take some deeper breathes, has to be good. So it was a good weekend.

Now, to people... People are the strangest of creatures to me. Dogs, horses, most critters are nothing if not honest, especially with themselves. They never feel the world revolves around them (well, Autumn might sometimes) but at least not the way a person can. It amazes mw to no end how a person can be SO self centered and still truly believe they are always putting others first. How contradictory! This kind of person need so much help and direction but can't even comprehend it from their knowing how perfect they are. It can be to the point they're actually almost a bad person. How crazy is that? Work is funny because you meet so many kinds... Unfortunately I am an understudy of someone like this. I don't dislike the person but sometimes what is said and done in the name of goodness is so... Not nice or good at all it's striking. Now said person really likes me so but to almost the point of a curse when 'good intentions' are like burden and I am so very different from them- of they believe I am JUST like them. Good thing I learn quickly and can start to limit, at least to a degree, my need to shadow this person. I luckily do work with many other good people who are pleasantly wonderful and my boss, I have found, is an amazing person. So I don't have anything to complain about - I'm actually not complaining just observing I guess someone who is detrimental to themselves. I guess I feel bad for them. Living just for you is awful lonely.