todays fare--- pitchforks and vaccines...
my pitchfork is gone....every horseman has a favorite pitchfork--- a cherished piece of equipment... however they do tend to wander... used in some horse trailer -- and get let=ft3 there... gone..... at least a dozen times. i have bought a horse,, then saddle and bridle-- couple buckets. a brush or two... and 2 pitchforks ( hay and poo) and figured ... after 50 years of buying the kids 4h supplies....i would have my own... ... what people don't realize is if they take my pitchfork and leave it at the other end of teh barn, having to walk teh 75 feet of teh barn to get my picthfork will expend all the energy available for the next 1/2 hour- so this time i intended to get nastyer than usual.... and set up what i need to try and get back in the routine of taking care of one horse. i should be able to.... it is called forced exercise...
some cp suggest the name "taxi". good one....i think that works....
janine took her out on the road yesterday and decided she has not been ridden much-- just driven... a whole new bunch of steering problems.. so janine got stuck in the middle of boxford road as she quietly tried to explain to "taxi". she just wanted to turn around.- this cause janine to meet some of the neighbors.. and found there was a second group who love having us in the neighborhood....that group had a fun and educational time in the middle of boxford rd for about 1/2 hour.
janine then left her eating grass in the pond....doesn't sound like much... but. i was going to have to figure out how to get her back in the bqrn. - that would be over 200 feet...
so also today we may have to teach taxi to walk quietly next a golf cart.
the other taxi "happening " is supposed to be at 2pm... when cowboy will have another go around with her... he does know his horses....- i get a kick out of the other form of riding.. "english" dressage and jumping--- where a horse is ridden an hour or so a day.. as opposed to a cowboy who spends 8 to 10 hourws a day every day and keeping the horse fit and comfortable is critial to teh cowboy's very life.
so i smile sweetly at the dressage riders- a gran prix rider has spent hours- and there is a gran prix rider for about 4,683,987 other riders attempting to get to first level.. where every cowboy alive has some basic knowledge of horsemanship- or he would be dead. when this guy "matt" hopped off taxi and just dropped her rope on teh ground-- theer ws a gasp amonng the english crew behind me.."he didn't even cross tie her" he had not fooled with her for more than about n hour... but she knew that she shouodl stand still until told to do something else.. ground tie. it is called... a cowboy in the middle of 5000 acres can not get off a horse to tend to a calf qnd have the horse ' even think of doing anything besides standing shock still...
so this matt guy is supposed to be here this afternoon at 2:00--- either in teh "sand ring' by the icu house-- or in the rain , in teh arena
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'that brings us to vaccines.... i have had mine... i know what the polio vaccine drink did for everyone my age long ago... -- i will go with people with a scientific background....and....... one of them( a people doctor from my past life) called to see if i had heard or knew of anything about lepto vacines for dog -- at that point all i knew was long ago george said lepto was not common so why vaccinate the pups-- so i never did.. the puppy shot we give is a C5..parvp distemper etc..... the one with lepto is a C7.
he asked me to ask around the dog world to see if there ihas been any problems.. i didn't have to go further than linda who keeps track of medical records of all the dogs we have out hter for serv or. pet. --- yes. she knew of 4 of our dogs who had a blood clotting problem aftr a lepto shot. so i called my md frend and told him we had 4 out of 4. but did not haave qny stqtistics of any who had the shot and did not have a clotting disorder.. hence this note in the daily doggie.. if ther ei anyone woh has given the lepto vaccine withno trouble--- or with trouble i would like to pass it pn to the people study--send to this address .....animalep@aok.com
in the meantime-- therre apparently is some concern about the connection of lepto with clotting-- and i have not heard of a case of the disease lepto- so i would stronglysugget you not give that vaccine until. further is known...as i am sure it. will be soon-- they are already saying it is not genetic. with people or dogs.
as for the people vaccine and covid-- i have to listen to the nurses who have. to deal with the unvaccinated people choking to death .
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THE ADVENTURES OF SD DALE AND STACY: We went mini golfing yesterday and what a great time we had. I had to say Dale sure made this outing possibly for me. The both of us had such a great time and we can’t wait to get to do it again.
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Carlene White
