Oh the sunrises I am seeing with this new puppy, today's was spectacular yet again. H and I did our usual morning loop, a bit of free time in the round pen, breakfast search in the grass then went to let J out. Back at the front door S met me with a coffee in his gonch, thanks. I did a quick update while H chewed on her bone and rested on bed. S was off for a teeth cleaning booked at 10. The wind picked up and it was quite cool at 10.
To the garage for some tug- drop it training then off for a long walk; to lock in the horses and loop back and around to the east. J followed along for it all then when back at the house deck for water I watched him scouting a mouse from up on a rail, pounce then bring it out to bat around on the grass. He was bringing it towards me so H and I came inside and when I looked back he had ate it. Think he was proving his mousing skills. ;)
Now to get the crate finished. I prepped my new silicone stamps then figured out how to use them and stamp fresh produce around the crate. Part way thru I took H and J for a walk to open the pasture gate. Right after I finished stamping the crate I scrubbed them up, dried and put back on the sheet. I chose poly to seal the crate and was just finishing as S pulled in just after 12 with Chinese food for lunch. Miss H napped on her garage mattress after our long walk and continued to keep sleeping from about 11 to after 1 when I went out after adding to blog. S hit big brown after his food and was napping too. The sun burned thru around 12:30 and it turned into a beauty day hitting 14.
In the garage I dark waxed the crate.. done! H and I were out for a walk when B & C arrived. Dogs got their play time then we tacked up the horses, S joined us too. Before I tacked up I took the kittens upstairs to play while we rode. They had loads of fun as we heard them running around when we were back. Our ride took us south with a quick visit with Sharon then back north, along our trees and back to the ranch.
S let Pepper go and off to the deck for glass of water. I untacked, brushed, wrangled the kittens back to their stall, let Switch out after B applied hoof oil then went and got Harley. B brushed oiled then caught Bird to feed. Of course the pups wanted a play but Cooper has learned to duck out under the fence as part of the play which is good to bring the rough housing down but bad as she thinks maybe she might fit. I took her to the deck for S to hold while I hauled out the puppy pens and closed off the deck again. Cooper tried to play in here but the beast is too rough and his speed gets him no where.
He and B were off for home at 4. I put away some deck decor to prevent breakage then tried to catch up a few computer things and stage a few pictures of the new crate.
H wanted to nap on her garage mattress so I let her. I checked quite a few times but the last time I found she had gotten into my stack of almost gone paint cans, new paint cans and she found wax brushes. One handle was chewed all up and the small cans crumpled. One new can had holes and paint dripping. UGH! Into her kennel while I cleaned up then I took her for a walk and fed her outside putting her in the kennel just before Sharon picked me up before 6. She dropped off a round table to the stock pile while purging their sea can, thanks S.
We set off for town to meet Coreena to catch up as we missed all birthday lunches this year with covid. We had 3 hours of catch up and Sharon dropping me back home just after 9. I took Harley out for a walk and had her tucked into garage kennel after 9:30 then headed in to crawl into bed and catch some tablet time. S was in bed watching TV having had a relaxing evening hanging with H.
Today is Vance's 17th bday, happy cake day!
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