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Monthly Archives: November 2006
Salutory Horse Gas?
Okay, I was going to say “horse farts” but it just seemed uncivilized. Both of our horses have what I would consider a peculiar habit. Each time we let them in the barn they lift their tails and pass gas … Continue reading
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An update on The Kid
Ya’ll know we have a 10-year-old son we call “The Kid” in these parts. Well, we had hoped he’d take to the horses more than he has and would write some posts here and there. It hasn’t happened. Yet. We … Continue reading
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We need a carriage
We went to a small town Christmas event tonight and one of the prominent attractions was horse-drawn carriage rides, as well as hay rides. We paid $6, stood in line and boarded a small, white one-horse carriage for a ride … Continue reading
Year-to-date horse expenses
I just updated our horse expense list through October 2006 and pulled together this quick, if un-sexy line chart showing the trend. That big blip in the middle is due to annual vaccinations (I told the horses it hurt me … Continue reading
Horses and chainsaws
Nope, not a Halloween post. The other day Mikki and I were out in the pasture cutting back a large section of a tree that had fallen during a storm. We headed on out with a chainsaw and an ax … Continue reading
The round bale hay experiment – Part 2
A month ago I wrote about experimenting with a round bale of hay in the pasture during the cold season and here’s an update on how that’s going for us. Although our horses almost entirely ignored the round bale when … Continue reading
