Yes, it’s been like that.\u00a0 And tonight, after a somewhat unusual day, in which things did not go to plan\u00a0 At All, I failed to check before my last meal how many calories I had left…and promptly overshot the limit.\u00a0\u00a0 The milk, which I need for calcium (dairy culture background; I absorb it better from milk, and have no lactose intolerance) is what I use to balance the protein from one meal to another, usually having just 8 oz at a time, twice in a day.\u00a0 Well, not today.\u00a0\u00a0 I forgot the beef at breakfast, when I don’t usually have any meat, just the eggs and milk.\u00a0 But remembered not to drink the milk at breakfast because the beef + eggs was ample.\u00a0 Then didn’t drink any milk at either lunch (its usual spot) and went on and had all 16 oz with the 4th meal.\u00a0 I was out of my usual thawed 2 oz of chicken for lunch.\u00a0 Also an annoying morning, and a really annoying call just before supper (hint to all persons who want contributions from the person being called, someone who has given contributions before: do NOT rush into your long spiel with no pauses, a spiel that assumes the listener has no background in whatever the spiel is about, when you called them specifically because they’ve been a contributor over time, and a spiel that is clearly going on and on and will end with “So send this much money.”\u00a0 This does not win friends and influence them to send you more.\u00a0 I don’t CARE whose idea it was, caller or some idiot marketing firm that gave the callers a script.)<\/p>\n
I’m too old and cranky to be treated like an ignoramus maximus without speaking up about it.\u00a0 Which I did, with some rancor showing (and I’m not proud of that, it just happened…end of a day in which nothing I planned to accomplish other then feeding horses got accomplished, disappointing weigh-in on Monday and since, overslept my nap, sore areas from throwing dirt from the pile back into the septic tank hole, to fill in around the tank,\u00a0 the wonderful bird near-discovery all gone from where they were or anywhere I could hear, hot and hotter weather…and then this obviously younger-voiced person starts rattling on and on and on about something I know already, seeming ready to read another two pages at me.\u00a0 SNAP.)<\/p>\n
Well, enough of that.\u00a0 Grass is fading, but still green (the warm weather C4 grasses are burgeoning; their deep roots are harvesting more of the rainfall than the others. ) and the horses, confined in the two horse lots, are running out of the grass that’s made them grass-fat.\u00a0 They’re EAGER for their evening snack\u00a0 (feed through wormer, one supplement, and a small amount of Strategy, just enough to be sure they clean up the other two.)\u00a0 Both horses know the word “OUT!” in a firm voice means “Out of the barn, both of you, now.”\u00a0 Rags often chooses to look at me in mild surprise: “Surely not ME, Mom?\u00a0 I’m just…just standing here not bothering anything…”\u00a0 OUT!\u00a0\u00a0 “But…why?”\u00a0\u00a0 OUT!\u00a0 “I don’t think I understand that…”\u00a0 (Meanwhile Tigger, who left with the first OUT is standing at least 10 feet outside the barn and not making any move to intrude.\u00a0 RAGS! OUT!<\/p>\n
When they’re out and the west gate is closed, I can open the gate to the aisle, bring the feed bowls up to fill them, check the water, clean and fill a tub if it needs it, get everything ready, then move the feed bowls where they should be for drama-free feeding.\u00a0\u00a0 Then I latch the aisle gate and go open the west gate.\u00a0 In comes Tigger, quickly followed by Rags.\u00a0 Peaceful.\u00a0 Each to his own feed.\u00a0 Calm.\u00a0 Yay!!!<\/p>\n
Bedtime now.\u00a0 I’ve been staying up too late, and then oversleeping in the morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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