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Had a varied day today. You want to read about it, right?



Showed 5 to young prospective tenants. They wanted us to work with them on the rent. No, sorry. We have only one empty and we're fielding all kinds of calls on it. I'm not pressed enough to work with tenants on the rent.

Pulled off loose tile and cleaned it up and stuck it back on at 10. It will need to be grouted tomorrow as will the stuff at 5.

Tenant at 343 called to inform us that the porch is soggy to walk on and the railing fell off. We go look. We put down 3/4 inch plywood on top of porch. Porch now not soggy. In the process, we tell tenant that he cannot store stuff at the bottom of the basement/crawlspace stairs (located through a trapdoor in the floor of the porch). Tenant makes all kinds of "We are moving" noises. Whatever. We will fix the railing tomorrow and he can move if he wants. I can rent that to someone who doesn't have freaky tiny pupils and who doesn't put up fucking plastic everywhere. (They enclosed the porch in a giant sheet of plastic. Nothing says class like flapping sheets of plastic, let me tell you.)

I mowed 200 and 343+ this morning while it was still cool. Also I picked up little green apples, lots of them, for the horses. The apples are pretty solidly in the spitter camp but the horses don't seem to mind. I didn't get to 629 today but I'll try to hit it tomorrow.

Horse evening tonight went... mixed. I got the smaller-size easyboots on the horse. I had to kind of screwdriver-pry them on there, but I got them on and they stayed on and stayed tight. Yay! Hopefully the easyboot thing is now solved. Anyone want some slightly-used size 0 easyboots? Cheap?

I also (finally) figured out how to post. Posting is that thing where people rise/sit a trotting horse. Thing is, it's got nothing to do with legs. Your legs don't do shit while posting. You kind of let the horse's trot throw your pelvis forward in a (sorry but this is honestly the easiest way to splain) fuck-the-pommel motion and then you sit yourself down again. It's way less effort than I thought it was. Way less. You are also not fifty miles out of the saddle. You're just a wee bit out of the saddle. I was trying too hard, I think. Anyway, much improved on that front.

The remaining plus item: Nick drank out of the creek (water offered on the training ride) on Monday, a little. Today she drank lots, like a real drink. Maybe she's decided that it's okay to drink from "strange" water. This would be a huge load off my mind.

On the down side, the weather continues punishingly hot and sticky. We did a two-hour 7.6 miles this evening and probably we should have done more but it was just too hot.

Also, I think Nick is sore over the loins. I'm not certain of this but she's not moving out the way she did at the beginning of this year. She won't extend the trot for me like she would even two weeks ago. On Monday (after fair, which was a week of not-much-riding), she kept offering to canter up grades that she knows darn well we trot. She did it again (but less, I think) today. Given the amount of energy needed to offer to canter every three or four strides, I'm thinking there's a problem. Just... how can she get that much worse over a week of not-much riding?

Too, her loins look good. The hair on 'em isn't mussed and they're the same temperature as the rest of the horse. She doesn't sink any worse on (heavy, firm) palpation than she normally does. (She's goochy -- has been that way since she was a three year old horse. She has sunk from being brushed on the loin as long as I've known her, including the time before she was ever ridden by anyone.) Not sure what to do about this except get on the merry-go-round of saddles again. :( I'm borrowing Try's English saddle on Friday to see what that's like. We will all hope that I don't fall on my arse with that, please.

I can't find my favorite red hoof pick, either. Not sure where it's at.

Date: 2007-08-02 04:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] staceman.livejournal.com
We've got lots of the green "crab apples" (what I've always been told they were) in our yard, and they're yours for the taking if you need any, whether it be for the horses or for baking pies and whatnot. (I was also always told, that these particular apples aren't so pleasant for anything but pies.) (heh, I suppose it's about time I do a Google search on them, instead of relying on hand-me-down information/memories/etc.)

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