Regular Day to Day Mayhem

Just when we think we sort of know what we are doing a few more animals show up to prove us wrong…dead wrong.  Oh, and the wind blew (and I mean really blew), just to add to the general mayhem.

We are watching the Grand-dogs this week while the kids are on their delayed honeymoon.  The Grand-dogs are 6 month old energetic German Short-hair pointers.  They like to chase anything that moves, so the cow has been moved to a different field, the chickens have not been let out of their yard, the barn cats are on their own and the inside cat has had a few narrow escapes.  The kids have been working hard with the pups, so unlike our unruly two, the puppies actually come when they are called.  We cannot have them ‘out’ of the yard with us without our other two dogs, as the ‘damn white dog’ does her best to break the new dog yard, when left alone in it.  Having all four dogs out of the yard is a bit like letting 4 toddlers loose at the zoo.  The puppies think this means it is time to bite and wrestle with the black lab, the black lab thinks this is a bad idea who then sticks right next to my legs to get away from them, so the only one to get bitten/nipped was me.  We are finally settling into a rhythm.  They ‘help’ me feed the other critters, have only fallen into the pond 3 times and sleep in our bedroom, which does break all the dog sleeping rules of the house, but as long as Billie Elliot the inside cat doesn’t try to sleep in there at the same time it seems to work best for all of us getting the most sleep possible.

Our ‘herd’ of horses have quickly become a tight-knit group.  Going from 2 to 3 horses is a bit of a learning curve for us.  They do not want to be separated for any reason or for any length of time.  Hopefully, this will settle down and/or we will learn better ways to handle it, the more they see that when one of the horses goes off for a ride, it shortly comes back.  However, everything seems worse with the wind blowing as the horses are a bit on edge when the wind blows and it was blowing like a ‘wholly (Bad British word)’ this weekend to quote My Loving Spouse.  I did manage to have a short ride on Beau and let me tell you, this is going to be one very fun horse to ride!

The Teen decided to go for a ride on her horse Dolly, the next day as well, except the wind was blowing even harder and the young filly Dixie was not happy about being separated from Dolly one little bit.  I was off doing the grocery shopping when I received the following text from My Loving Spouse.

“Just had a bunch of excitement!……  The Teen decided to ride Dolly so took her out to pond area, Dixie freaked out and jumped the water tank, while trying to get her back Beau escaped!”

So, how was your weekend?