july 26 2023

We haven't had an official stool report in quite a while but I was thrilled last night to have malarkey wandering around whining... to the point where he woke me up and I let him out ----fortunately right under my bedroom window he showed me what happened to the all those corn cobs and a few pieces of Kleenex,,, I was extremely fortunate. to have woken (waked?)up and let him. Out... Poor dog was wandering around wondering where he could put all that.  It was one of those stools which had sound effects also.. 

 

There is just too much paperwork to deal with daily  living .--- judy brought  a P-Touch label maker to help me with my password problem—and I do like it... as long as I don’t ask it to change a thing – like font size—because once you do there is a 3 foot x 3 foot piece of paper to unfold so you can locate the section of the paper which is not in Chinese- and find out how to change the ribbon.

 

Trying to figure out the bills from masterson ( the heavy duty construction company we have used for years.....} and suddenly   I thought MARK and his drone .. when did I attack the drainage behind the stalls – when the icu building?  When did the walk in freezer cement pad happen?    His drone might tell me that ...  who knew???

 

Janine is due here from so Carolina  today- she specifically  is coming to get the moldy pile out of the cellar...since it has been there since 7/16--- in trying to find out the masterson bills I found a $5000 bill for doing the cellar in 2020... so at that point it was spotless --- it took the next 2 years to slowly fill from floor to ceiling...

II have great hopes that we can get it dumped and still have time to get a load of hay—same trailer.. same direction...

 I timed Janine unloading the last load of hay— 80 bales ----tossing a bale every 7 seconds onto the hay elevator—heavy bales at about 50#-----

80 bales at 50# is 4000 #. Or 2 tons....  80 x 7 seconds is 560 second – about 10 minutes... FACT.....

So why  if I asked someone to unload the hay trailer they would cringe at the  2 ton effort—then run to the gym for some exercise...  this is what owning a horse does for you... it is mandated exercise !

 

A bit like long ago when Ann and I took the EMT course and the  instructor  remarked about  old grannies were not up to the heavy lifting needed for emt’s---- then he gave us the heaviest guy in the class to pick up--- thinking  we would cringe—with one on each side we lifted and turned and said “where would you like him?”  we both had years of hay and “used hay”  behind us.