Bulleting

Monday, August 05, 2024

This will be a beautiful day. While sunny and hot, it’ll be under 100 degrees; a welcome temperature as everything is relative.

My older dogs are going to the veterinarian today for long-overdue checkups and vaccination updates.

My donkey has been separated from her horse buddies to make medicating and feeding special food easier for me. She’s not happy, but I’m relieved.

Finally, the young and sweet blue hen I tried to keep alive for months couldn’t make it. I worked hard to keep her going, even knowing from experience that it’s possible to pause a chicken’s signs of failure without necessarily stopping the process.

I found a source for low-sugar hay, and a load will be coming, which is a great relief. Soaking hay to reduce its sugar and making it available has proved hard and time-consuming. Especially with the freezing weather ahead, I feared having to continue that process.

These few days, I’ve been home and seen people stopping their vehicles, coming to my fence, and feeding treats to the horses—so often that my horses know what’s coming and rush to the fence. That visiting must stop because sugar is bad, especially for Pimmy. It’s another reason she was separated.

My fencing needs electrifying to stop both unwanted treat-feeding and horse-butt scratching.

That’s what’s happening today and thoughts of what’s ahead. It’s always challenging to work at living as fully as possible–the best way to be alive, in my opinion.

Dear Friends: Balancing daily needs calls for non-working events–having fun. Diana