Mikey's
Madness
Your
Daily Dose of Drama from a
Horseshoeing
Housewife
Sunday,
September 30th, 2007
Horse, horse
tractor,
horse
Sacred Cloud
He LOVES
being scratched
HeÕs a real personable
horse
but not pushy
Clearing brush
Sunday morning
while youÕre having
coffee
weÕre working
Happiest on her horse
Still practicing with
Quinn for the show
Cloud watches, hoping for
his turn
Quinn enjoys the jumps
Last ride out before dark
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Friday,
September 28th, 2007
Oh my
ItÕs a long story
IÕll try to be brief
Our friend Cathy
saw this horse
standing in a very small
backyard pen
He needed help
Cathy doesnÕt waste time
She takes action
He is now at our house
for a while
But first we had to do a
few things
THIS
has to go!!!
Before
Had to use a little
hacksaw action
After
MUCH BETTER
This hind hoof cleans up
nice
Very gentle
comes with matching dog
One more time
Before and After
Good job Wade!
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Thursday,
September 27th, 2007
Big ones
Lately itÕs
been big around here
Last night my
camera decided to have
a bad day
so I apologize
these pics
should be better
today itÕs
fine
go figure
The Harvest
Moon
ItÕs bright as
the sun!
Looks small
compared to my horse
AinÕt he
BEAUTIFUL?
ThatÕs the
Mighty Quinn!
Oh how I
love him
We are riding
daily
Horse Show
countdown - 10 days!!!
Please be a
good boy!
ItÕs a show
NOT a
racetrack
We will be trying
not to fall off
jumping for our first time in public
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This morning
we had a very lame (not our doing)
horse come to the shop
As Wade pulled
the shoe off
A large amount
of pus
SHOT out
The culprit?
One big nasty
abscess
Ouch
Now you know
what one looks like
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Wednesday,
September 26th, 2007
Nina
Ready to ride
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Arizona
Cowboys
You just canÕt see them from
the road
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Monday,
September 24th, 2007
Blue
Even though sheÕs moved on
to a big horse
Mercy still rides Blue
She still loads him up
every chance she gets
He fits!
Note - the first divider
has been modified for ponies
I like this a lot
Blue says ÒGet me outta
hereÓ
Now if he was in the
first stall he couldnÕt do this
Of course we do feet
Then thereÕs
Jack
My
handsomest devil donkey
I let him out with his girls
The girls say ÒWe didnÕt
need to see thatÓ
This is what a happy
donkey looks like
Gotta roll here too
This time the girls donÕt
look
All the way over
Watch out ladies!
I told you, MOVE
Casper pitched such a fit
I let him out too
When itÕs too quiet
I go see what theyÕre
doing
Jack, Molly, Cadencia,
Spooky and Casper
Doing bad things to my
tree nothing
Running like idiots
Much better
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Thursday,
September 20th, 2007
Wendall
Yet another horse
That I love
I love any creature
That gives people a hard
time
Wendall is a Percheron
HeÕs kinda big
He came as a referral from
another farrier friend
who really didnÕt want to
do him anymore
After Wendall gave him a
back foot
It sent him flying 20 feet
When Wendall is done
HeÕs done
At least heÕs very clear
about it
Since our farrier friend
knows we like
getting beat up
a challenge
Here we are
It took 2 sessions before we
figured this horse out
Wendall requires a certain
amount of loving
A LOT of loving
Otherwise you canÕt have
his feet
What Wendall told me
is that you donÕt get a
pedicure
without a massage
Like DUH people
I keep scratchin
And Wade works FAST
Note the normal sized
horse to the left
Whatever it takes
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This link is a MUST SEE
For all horse owners
It just came into my inbox
These the most amazing
founder pictures
Documenting a year of
extreme laminitis
Be sure to click her link
to see all the pictures
Take a deep breath before
you look
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Wednesday,
September 19th, 2007
Thin Shoes
and
Old Friends
This horse paces
A LOT
Fresh off the horse
After 8 weeks
Talk about toe draggin!
Time for a reset
Ya think?
Now hereÕs a treat!
Thanks to the awesome
power of the Internet
WeÕre able to reconnect
with old friends
This is Susan and Mikey
Circa 1865
We were some horse crazy
girls!
LetÕs not talk about
the 80Õs hairdos
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Monday,
September 17th, 2007
Butt
Scratching
and
Amish Stocks
Awwwwww
He likes the butt
scratchins
HereÕs one of my favorite
horses
This is Reb
HeÕs an older stud
who knows every trick in
the book
Sometimes he likes to have
a little fun
At the farrierÕs expense
But mostly heÕs a good man
and we enjoy doing him
These are the infamous
STOCKS
They restrain a horse
and let us get our work
done
without a trip to the
ER
safely
We like to think we have
enough
horsemanship skills to not
have to use these
but there are times
We put the occasional
child in there too
Then we call these the
ÒNaughty StocksÓ
Cause we watch too much
Supernanny
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Sunday,
September 16th, 2007
Jump!
IÕm trying to get QuinnÕs
attention
He considers flatwork
BORING
but will grudgingly
get with the program
So today I started mixing
it up
I didnÕt want to start
this too young
or
when I didnÕt have full
control
I had my doubts about his
ability
to EVER
watch where his feet are going
But he surprised me
He actually cleared this
little jump
3 times in a row
He seems to get it
and most importantly
He seems to
LIKE IT
At this point itÕs just
about getting him over it cleanly
It doesnÕt have to be
pretty
Success!
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Friday,
September 14th, 2007
Rescue Me
Now weÕre practicing the
Rescue Race
The idea is to run down
the arena
at high speed
and
pick up the man who needs
rescuing
This is so
easy a 3 yr old can do it
This man needs
to be rescued
Here comes the
cowgirl
Agility in
action
After you
turn 30, this is harder to do
Rescued!!!
Oh no!
Mommy needs a
rescue too!
Mommy gets
saved!!
Now THAT is a cowgirl
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AND
More knobby
kneesÉ
If your horse
has legs like this
WeÕll still
manage to trim him
DonÕt worry
This horse
gets around fine
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Wednesday,
September 12th, 2007
Transforming
the Shop
As many of you
know
I'm working to
clean up the shop
We're going
turn it into a
Western Thrift
Store
After a year
of thought
About what
would work
This is what I
came up with
However, first
Wade's sister needed
to move her
stuff out
She'd stayed
there this spring
After 2 months
of asking
I finally
moved it myself
Here's a
couple
Before and
After shots
The Front Room
The Main Room
Slowly but
surely
It's going to get
done!
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Tuesday,
September 11th, 2007
The Farrier's
Truck
and
Your Halloween Sneak Peek!
This hangs from the mirror
Boots, shoe and nippers
Big thanks to my buddy
Will who found those nippers at a yard sale.
He said they called my
name
Everyone has an EZ Boot on
their dash, right?
With that bumper
You bet I'm Fearless
This is my super awesome
backseat driver
Lately all she says is
"Mommy, go FASTER"
That's my kinda co-pilot
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Now when I saw these
costumes
I knew these were IT
Perfect
I drove straight to the
shop to show Wade
I jumped out and said
"Hey honey, I got OUR costumes today too"
The look on his face was
priceless
We didn't discuss US
wearing costumes
He had no idea this was
required
I was hiding them, but he
could see a little bit
He looks up from shoeing a
horse and
says "How come one's white and one's black?"
I got a big smile
and showed him
He was so thrilled
I'm still laughing
I know you guys can't
wait to see how we look
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Monday,
September 10th, 2007
We're like
Motel 6
We'll
leave the light on
This guy has been here 5
nights in a row
This is why
We are completely
fascinated by his ability
to eat bugs
He knocks out an average
of a bug a minute
It's like our own little
Animal Planet show
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Retiring
The rule is
When sock is showing
It's time for new boots
These lasted almost 2
years
I got my money's worth
As I bid them goodbye
I'm wondering
If you can tell so much
about a person
by what they wear on their
feet
What do these say about
me?
Besides
that I have really big feet
Replaced By
More heel, pointier toes
Slicker soles
Very practical
Functional
A touch more girlie
Hopefully snake proof
That's what matters
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Sunday,
September 9th, 2007
Rare Talent
For all kinds of trouble
I went out yesterday to hook
up the little trailer
to deliver it to it's new owner
Everything went wrong at
once
First the trailer had a
low tire
Then the jack on it
decided to quit working
mid hookup of course
Then I spot THIS on the
front truck tire
How does this
happen?
Rare talent folks
So I do what any woman
does
I call my man
And say
"Honey, I didn't do
anything, I swear"
Actually what I said was
"You're gonna s**t a
twinkie when you see this tire"
And he did
But he fixed things for me
Like a good man does
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This morning found me at
Check out my co-pilot
Grace
I almost hit the fence
with the cart
when Grace to snuggled up
to my face
I love this dog!
She's a BIG GIRL
Everyone has their spot
Look at that face!!
Zack's on the ball
All's going well
Until....
I'm feeding the cats in
the tack room
When I hear a dogfight
start
It sounds like someone's
being killed
I race out and wade into
the middle of it
Several dogs have one on
the ground up next to the golf cart
Pinned
That little dog pictured
above, Zack?
He's the culprit
He's tearing up Tanner,
the adolescent pup
I imagine Tanner tried to
take his ball
Tanner
Can be very annoying
He's like that kid in
school that won't quit
Since I was around, Zack
decided it was time
to put him in his place
Everyone else wanted a
piece too
See this?
This is my size 10
Ronald McDonald looking
foot
Guess where it goes?
I booted Zack off
With the top of my foot
Not hard, just enough
Tanner ran away and hid
Very upset
Zack's full of himself now
I eventually tracked
Tanner down
He was hiding under the
porch
I coaxed him out
So I could make sure he
was ok
He was fine
Very contrite
Still a touch of animosity
there
Rule #1
Kiss up to the big dogs
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Saturday,
September 8th, 2007
Rain =
Rarely seen Critters
This guy loves to eat the
bugs
that come to our porch
light
It's like the world's best
salad bar!
These toads
are seriously poisonous to dogs
Makes your dog
act like it ate LSD
No lie
In other
adventures....
Waiting on the
bus
There it is!
How bout a
ride?
How was your
day?
Heading for
home
Mastering the
dismount
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Thursday,
September 6th, 2007
A River Runs
Through It
This is so cool
We got rain today!!
This is a big deal in
the desert ya know
So I wanted to show you
guys the wet horses
I stepped out at the end
of the storm
Armed and dangerous with
my camera
Just in time to capture
what I consider to be a
really cool feature to this property
look to the left in the
picture
Do you see it?
Flash flood!!
Mesquite kicks things off
must be the sound of
rushing water
Oh boy!
Instant river!
This is why I have panels
over the wash part
instead of real fence
fence washes away
The youngsters consider
this a gift from the Gods
This one has to roll in it
This one too
Let's all get in!
One hour
later
It's fading
See Old Smokey
doing her job?
She's mean
I tell ya
And you better
not forget it
You think they
bought it?
That was a
pretty bad storm
Know how I
know?
Because this
is a piece of my roof
Anyone care to
guess
what I'll be doing tomorrow?
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Wednesday,
September 5th, 2007
Run for the
Border
We wandered
into Nogales Mexico this past weekend
For drugs
Not that
kind
It is true
that you can get what you need
for less than half the cost in America
Wade uses
asthma inhalers
In the US they
cost $35
In Nogales,
they cost $7
We buy a
year's worth at a time
You can buy
those "other" drugs too
After I
wandered off for a minute,
Wade caught up to me
and said
"Some guy
just dragged me by the arm
into a back
room and asked if I needed any pills"
Wade said
NO
Then he says
I'm not allowed to wander off like that again
Not
happy to be here
He kept saying
"Ok,
we're done"
Me
I LOVE
Mexico
Dig the hat?
$20 bucks dude
Even the
border guard thought it was fetching
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Then there's
these 2 characters
who didn't
get to go to Mexico
"Not
doing nuthin Mom"
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Monday,
September 3rd, 2007
Elvis Lives!
I know cause
I kissed him today
This is Elvis
Isn't he ADORABLE???
Elvis was in a pen close
to the road
So we stopped to say hi,
with permission
It was feeding time!!!
Mercy got to feed Elvis five
bottles!!!
I could not resist a kiss
(but no tongue, thank you
very much)
Elvis is 2 months old. His
mama developed mastitis,
so he is a bottle baby
Very friendly
A year from now
I am going to own a camel
You heard it here first
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