horses still not wormed

But at least I rode for half an hour on Saturday.   Sunday I went to a memorial service for a college professor.  He helped me get my student job here and also a paid internship at JPL.  It was a bit awkward for me.  They didn't have a remembrance book and I'd forgotten to bring a card.  I haven't kept up with campus research group he had founded so only knew a few faces there and didn't have any shop talk to share with the ones I knew.  

Saturday I went in to buy feed and asked dad if he wanted to come and just eat out.  So we did that, he insisted on paying.  I didn't argue since I bought last time we went for Chinese food.  After the memorial service I did a Target run.  Sort of watched some of the game but I couldn't even listen to it full time on the way home when it had already started.  I was getting too distracted from driving.  I grained horses late and forgot all about the plan to worm them.   I may have to just plan on worming them a few at a time in the mornings before I give them hay.   None of them is looking like parasites are getting all the nutrition so its not a big deal but I don't want to set up the indirect damage worms can do so I do like to worm them periodically.  It'll get done eventually.

I bought some Jack Daniels bbq sauce pulled pork to eat Sunday night.  It was quite tasty for a heat and eat product.   Kind of pricey but not compared to eating out.  I proved to myself I could eat cheaply with ham and bean soup and chile from dried beans and old or tough meats a couple of years ago.  Pretty much cleaned out the freezer and now I am trying to get myself to just relax and enjoy the fact that I can afford to eat out and buy higher end shortcut products.   There is no reason to play "how cheaply can I eat" all the time and I think I found and used up almost all the old forgotten frozen meat in the freezer.

Good thing I didn't make a resolution to post more blog entries

Lets see, I should write this down to cement it in my mind.  My attempt at slow(er) cooking deer round steak that I cook like a roast came out no better, maybe a bit worse than using the pressure cooker has worked.  So now I can use my quick method and know that I am not giving up any tenderness or taste.   Take that foodie snobs who think if it doesn't take all day and lots of extra steps the food won't taste as good.  

I was feeling bored and not wanting to go outside when I did this and then at the end of the day it was warmer than I'd thought and I remembered "oy, I was going to get the horses wormed this weekend and now there is not enough light"  Oh well,  I believe they will all live,  I just hate it when I seem to have a mental block for doing something and I've been meaning to worm them for 3 or 4 weeks now and haven't got it done yet.  

I'm probably going to just have to decide that I do not mind buying 75% of the office half and half supply when I use maybe 7% of it when I'm drinking coffee regularly and not just having tea some days.   I really do like having cream in the fridge when I do have an afternoon coffee and it is not worth getting stressed by the parasites for something that is only a few dollars a week.  

I think I may have to call someone in the office out as a concern troll if she starts trying to be helpful by giving me fashion or career advice again.  I like my utilitarian looking socks and she *might* make more than me for the 10 times more amount of stress she takes on.    

I still have not ridden Tanza or anyone else yet this year.  There is more ground showing so this weekend I should be able to ride and I'm thinking I might try to do some trail walk/running with him on nice days if I'm not quite ready to trust him if the footing is still slick to combine my fitness and his mental training.  

Lady is doing well being in with CJ.    

Well I kept my new years resolution

I'm not much on making resolutions but thought a couple days into this year.  "I should resolve to wash my car"    Not wash it weekly or even monthly, just get it washed.   I probably ran it thru a wash once or twice last year but two separate times I meant to wash it I didn't get it run thru the wash.  Once I filled my tank when I swung by my vets office to get Shade's pills and then forgot to use the wash and then I bought a wash on the way home from work and then found they closed their wash a little before sunset every day and never did come into work that way to use the wash during the month it was good for.  I was annoyed that there was no notice at the pump that the wash you were purchasing would not be redeemable at that time.

This weekend I plan to worm the horses and move Lady in with CJ.  She is dropping some weight now being in the bigger group.  I'm not surprised since Lady eats so slow, what surprised me was how well she did being in with Sadie; even though Sadie lets Lady be the boss horse she eats so much faster, but Lady must have managed to keep a hay feeder guarded until she got her portion.  That doesn't work with Shade and Razz in the group.  

I have not ridden in 3 or 4 weeks I think.   It kind of alarms me that I am not jonesing to get back in the saddle.  I normally don't ride much in the winter but usually get in a short ride every couple of weeks and start getting ancy if it gets much longer than that between rides.  But I'm not wanting to ride any of my horses if the ground has slick spots.   Shade is lame, Sadie is still on rest,  I don't want to stress Grey's older legs and I'm having a mental block with Tanza, I don't quite trust him not to get a bit stupid and slip if the ground is slick, or at least get a bit stupid and me not want to risk causing a fall if I get unbalanced so having to hit the ground which hurts too much at my age.  I'm fairly sure I'll get cabin fever and remind myself that Tanza does have a good mind and isn't going to do anything really stupid if we don't get a stretch of warm weather to make dry ground to ride on within a little bit.

It has been cold and I just don't care to be outside doing anything for very long lately.  I keep hearing about the unusually mild winter folks back east and in AK are having and thinking "well all the cold air just keeps sitting here, and that is not our normal, usually we keep getting some really mild days between cold fronts and snow storms all winter long."  I want our normal back, putting up with all the coasties who have moved here is harder w/o the that mild weather perk.