Um, hiatus much?

Sorry all for the huge lack of posts. I've been uber busy with my new job, and looking after the grey horse. Plus I had to sell Richie and Fruity at Auction and I was pretty much devastated afterwards.

And as well now two of the horses at my barn have a Flu virus, and I'm the only one with enough brains/actually gives a shit to look after them. Not to mention being the only one on the property with a thermometer! Like how stupid do you have to be to not have such a basic piece of equipment for looking after your horse? The best part? Neither owner can afford a vet call! And the one horse is running a fever of 104! *headdesk* So anyway, here's what I can give you for an update.

When I first moved my horses to the current barn (at the beginning of September), Zhar got in a tangle with something and cut himself up a bit. Now, 2 months later, one of his hocks randomly swells up to the size of a football and is hard and boiling hot to the touch. No obvious new wounds, no real discomfort when palpated, not lame. A week of bute, cold hosing, and wrapping yeilds no change. Great.

So I phone up good old Doc Moats, who comes out and talks my ear off for an hour. Leaves me with sulfa tabs and bandaging instructions. Diagnosis? Between the old cut, the little bit of scabbies on his leg, and the damp conditions he has some sort of infection. Moats called it like "Random Icky Lymphangitis" or something. So now he gets 15 sulfa tabs twice a day, along with a gram of bute. I also have to wrap him with Doc Moats' homemade flannel pillow quilts. I admit I was a little skeptical about making my own leg quilts, but after seeing the resulting decrease in swelling I am sold. I have never seen a bandage take down swelling like these do. And I know it's not just the sulfa tabs and bute, because most of the hard swelling is still there, but all the stocking up in his lower leg and opposite leg disappeared overnight with the bandages.

I'm so impressed with them I'm making sets for Sara and Joey too. Sara's have flames on them and Joey's are camo. And what about Zhar's you may ask? Well, since he has proved himself to be such a Momma's Boy, his are made out of little boy pajama type, with cowboys on them. Tee hee.

This weekend I built a bunch of boxes and brush fences for to build a course before I head out to this show at the end of the month. And hopefully the pouring rain will hold off for a while so I can school my Fat Mare a bit.