What's Up Wednesday

You know what's up today? A cold shower. That's what. No hot water this morning, and I couldn't for the life of me find the freaking reset button on the heater. Doh. Oh well. I survived and I'm clean. You're welcome co-workers. Hopefully the HVAC guys get back to me so I don't have to take a cold shower tomorrow too.
Anyway, it was both a busy and a not busy week here at the farm. We had a lot of rain, but it wasn't constant so it didn't really interfere too much with what needed doing.
Friday was quite busy. After work I quickly fed the boys (no walkies on Friday!) because I was meeting up with my best friend to go see A Chorus Line and grab some dinner before hand. Dinner was great, we split a delicious, bad for us appetizer, and both got salads (I know... But they were chipotle ranch salads with corn and avocado among the boring veggies) and a glass of rose. For dessert we had boozy coffee, which totally canceled out those salads.

The show was fantastic. I actually never knew what the story line was for this show, and it was even better than I thought it would be.
After the show, I was supposed to go braid a horse. Obviously, I had my phone off during the show and I got this message from his owner:

Um... Do I go? Do I not go? It was 11:15, and her barn is 30 minutes from me. So I sent a text to see if she was still up. No answer... Finally I decided to just go. I could always just not charge her, but I would hate for her to get up for the show and have no braids! So I went.

I got a text at 6:00 am asking if I braided! Haha! Not sure why I heard the phone, but I did and let her know he was all set. She was like Yay, thanks! So all good. Phew.
Saturday was mostly errands, and walking ponies in between rain drops. And then I had another braiding job. It was funny, they asked me to come at 4:30 in the afternoon. I usually do them later, less time to rub ya know? But whatever, that was way more convenient for me, so I was like sure! Check out this barn you guys:

It's so beautiful there! And only a half hour from my house! I had heard of it (we use the same vet!) but I've never seen it in person. And I thought it was farther away than it actually is. Anyway, the horse was adorable. A little appendix mare. The kid was showing at a local show, so I have no idea why she wanted a tail braid, but who am I to argue? She came out cute.

She was a little ticklish for the tail, so I had trouble keeping it straight. But it wasn't terrible. I didn't really have anything else planned for the evening, so I got to work on a craft project I've been wanting to get done. Backstory: I'm (finally!) going to a Yankee game on Sept 1st and I decided I was tired of wearing my same old Yankee jeans. They're super old, and aren't very stretchy, and are very heavy denim. Blech. So I decided to make some new ones. But also I'm lazy. So I bought iron on patches online. I tried once before with the iron ons, but they fell off as soon as I put the pants on. I was planning to sew the patches this time, but decided in one last lazy effort to try gluing them instead. I think it's going to old, I tried them on, and they stayed put. Ok, so back to the pants. I have a cute Yankees tee shirt with a minion on it wearing a Yankees hat. And I found patches to match! Can you believe it? I couldn't.

Minions on my butt.

and a small Yankees emblem on my hip

But when I was patch shopping I also found some really cute Derek Jeter ones. I of course have a number 2 tee shirt too, so figured eh, why not have some Jeter pants too? I mean, I know he's retired, but he's basically a legend.

I love the farewell one on the right.

and a number 2 in my pocket!

Now I have to decide which to wear to the game. I'm leaning toward Minions.
Wild Saturday night huh?
Sunday was more of the same. It was rainy on and off. And then the sun came out, and then it rained while the sun was out. But the boys got their walks in. They also got their manes shortened. They look much less feral now.

Jampy, with his mane on the wrong side.

Rio with his perfect locks. Also, he finds haircuts very relaxing.

I took some body photos of them too. Jamp is definitely looking better already, after just a week on his new diet.

Not looking quite so emaciated anymore. He's still pretty ribby, but that takes time to go away.
Oh, almost forgot to mention, I threw Rio on the lunge line last week, and unfortunately, he's still quite unsound. So no riding. Boo. It was odd though, I took this photo of him on the lunge line (snacking, not lunging...) and he looks fine right?

Good weight, handsome boy... But then when he's standing with his head up, he looks like this:

Skinny. I don't like it. I decided to add a little of the empower boost to his meals too. He used to eat that before the EPM, so I know it agrees with him. We took him off it because it's not that tasty and he wasn't eating it well. This time, I'm feeding it along with his Triple Crown Senior and he's gobbling it right up. He's really been having a tough time chewing his hay, and I don't think he's  getting enough of it in his belly. He eats the chopped hay well, but I don't really want to give him MORE of that. It's pretty expensive, and he's getting quite a lot three times a day as it is. On the other hand, I prefer to feed hay or hay products over processed feeds, so maybe that is what I should do... I'm not sure. I'll conference with the vet the next time we talk. But hopefully the couple handfuls of Empower Boost will do the trick.
Anyway, back to the weekend. During one of the downpours, I got the laundry tended to again... how does this keep happening?

And check out this rainbow from Monday:

Nice full one!

But look! It's in front of the trees!

I've never seen this before, and thought it was pretty neat!

No pot of gold though. Lame.
And lastly, I will end with some of the stuff I bought for the boys last week that arrived.

That is the hideous blinged out fly sheet. Both boys can wear it, so that's nice I guess?

I saw these adorable ice boots and figured I'd grab a pair. I still ice Jampy after we take our walks, and a few of the ones I had gotten are leaking (ew), so doesn't hurt to have a good pair.

Riding Warehouse has these rope and leather halters for pretty cheap. And in my barn colors! So how could I not add to cart? It's not great if you really need a rope halter, because there aren't any knots. We don't really need one... but I figured it could be Jamp's walking halter. I ordered the matching lead too, but it was back ordered.
And I'm putting this out there in cyber space to hopefully hold me accountable... I'm trying to get back some fitness and what not, so I've started running again. I'm starting short and slow to set myself up for success this time. Monday night I ran 1 mile on the treadmill. It was super hot in my room, so I ran half, took a little break for some water, and then ran the other half. It was fine. And this morning I made myself get up and head outside for another single mile. I ran the whole thing with no breaks, and while it was hard (running is the WORST) it felt pretty good. I'm hoping to keep it up and get back to running some distance again. Baby steps though.

That's about it from here this Wednesday. No riding, boo. But lots of pony time and new pony presents, so that's fun!
How was your week and weekend? Do anything fun? Did you show? How'd it go?