So it's been almost a month again but so far nothing major has been going on really. I have continued to cut rabbits back out of the barn. Gerdy passed away on her own after not bouncing back from a tooth abbcess like she should have. Granted she was old but the antibiotics just hit her harder than she could come back from. I did daily probiotics on her as well to try and counter the antibiotics but it wasn't enough for the 8+ year old rabbit. I feel guilty like I should have seen it sooner or something. Thankfully I didn't lose any to heat stroke though. A friend of mine lost 5 English Spots to heat stroke and he even has fans in his barn. It included Precious, the Willy x Cricket baby I had wanted to keep back to show but had a toe chewed off. I will do that cross again. I just have to slim down my number of rabbits because Even after House sitting for Mrs Fu, and then July 6th-8th at Patrick's, I have to pay someone else to take care of my rabbits. I have also slacked some on taking better care of them. Heat and all today I pulled all my senior dutch out and clipped nails- they were atrociously long. Tomorrow I will do the English Spots. I'm still toying with keeping Trick for now. I might, I don't know. I just know I hate the idea of moving Mirror on, but the guy that lost Precious and 4 others, is getting her to help rebuild his herd again. Helps me get my numbers down. I need to keep less of them for more house sitting.
The horses are just getting fat on pasture. I haven't done a thing with them honestly. I tried to put a grazing muzzle on Tessa and that made her an angry mare. After a week I ended up taking it off. She was angry, making a disaster for everyone else. Monday Michael will be there to trim and I might ask him about someone to lease her. I love her, she's queen bitch mare out there- despite being the youngest and smallest. Ellie and Heidi will stand nose to tail and swat flies with each other until Tessa comes over. I honestly need to start doing something with them. This heat just saps the drive out of me to do anything.
Well Breyerfest was this weekend at the Horse Park. I didn't go to the Horse Park but Aunt Lisa and I went down to the Clarion Hotel where they do the swap meet and I went looking mostly for scratch models for painting. I have a decent list of horses I wanted to get painted: Drifter, Honey, Truly, Amber, Sherralyn and I still forgot to get a model for Bo. Drifter, Honey and Truly are all going on the same mod- stock horse mare, and I wanted to switch Tessa off the mold(Stock horse mare) she is currently on to Indian Pony mold. So I luckily found 2 stock horse mares and one indian pony that are stratched. Never found a Marabella for Sherralyn but did find Family Arabian mare for her instead, it's the same mold that Jasmine is on. Granted the leg is broke off but the piece is still there and I do know how to re-attach the broken piece. The black mare I'm not sure what I am going to do with her. I might use that for a traditional sized Bailey.
The Gem Twist model I don't know what I am going to do with him. I found him for $3, with his tail despite its broken off. The John Henry model I just have to bend the leg back out and I'll either put Bootsie or Spencer on it.
There was a list of horses I wanted to find for myself. A couple I *KNEW* I could find but couldn't' afford at this time. I was looking at the Grulla paint mare in the Lady Phase mold and I found it online to be in a couple of different rooms for $100 so I had mentally written her off but I found her for $20 down in the community/ball room of the hotel right before we left and I snatched her up. I also picked up Savannah Dial, she's a scratch but I didn't realize those feathers are raised on her so she'll be a display model until I figure out what to do with her. I also found and got another carousel ornament. I have downloaded all the pictures of each ornament so now when I unpack all mine I can thusfore delete their pictures if I have them so I know which ones to continue to look for. Sadly no Hidalgo, Stunt Double, Rain and the original Spirit were found. Bobby Jo and the other red dun tobiano I wanted were limited Editions so were very $$$$$$$.
Anyway, I was quite happy with my loot from Breyerfest Swap. I was out late Friday night for it and I didn't get panicky until I was in the ballroom- the last place we stopped before we left. I even managed to get The Black Stallion traditional for my aunt since I know she loves Arabians faces and black horses.
Then Saturday morning/today, I started some dog training classes with Willow. It's hard to go back to basics and get a more solid foundation on her. I have been doing the exercise Becky told me last weekend and we didn't get hardly anywhere with them all week. But suddenly today it was like the light went on. Kinda made me feel stupid, like we hadn't been practicing. But we are getting there. I am thrilled with the progress. But I think I will wait until Bluegrass to take the hit. If I enter Greater Louisville, I will likely do a Rally Novice which will mean switching over to B class. I'm not sure if it will be of a help to do it. Becky said to either do a Novice coarse or take an intermediate if I wanted to stay in A before I jump to advanced since it's off leash. Intermediate is advanced signs and everything but it's on leash. I think I might go for the intermediate at Louisville just to get our feet 'wet' again and then shoot for Advanced at Bluegrass. I will see what Becky recommends next weekend after our class. Novice B or Intermediate. I want to at least get through Advanced and through Novice Obedience. I don't think we can handle Open Obedience. Though Becky might be able to push us to it if I want to. Honestly I really like the Rally better so I might stay there. Get our CD and call it good and go back to Rally? I don't know yet. I have to see how the training goes.
So for right now I am still paying down debt and working every weekend. But house hunting is still on. I just have to figure out what to do with the horses.
