Actually did some corral cleaning ahead of predicted snow/rain coming in tonight

It's like a minor miracle, especially since dad came out and was trying to direct me on how to use the loader to get the bucket raked up manure winnrows scooped up w/o digging up dirt under them and I asked him to just do it and he did.  That allowed me to use a hand shovel to get some stuff right next to the fence cleaned up.  I did this on Saturday which was nice weather. New neighbor's maybe 12 yr old DD came bye.  She is interested in riding.  She likes Razz but I will put her on Lady.  If she does real well and wants to ride more than she can talk to dad about coming after school and riding Razz in the pen when Dad is home.   Her mom came by and said she was good with it but she wanted DD to have to work for it.

Corrals did not get completely clean as I was running out of light and steam but all of them were better than before.   The big pen got pretty well done.   Grey and Tanza's got the manure and wet hay pulled back away from feeders and gate good but not picked up.   I pulled some of the slop back from the feeders and waterer for CJ and Lady's pen and put a couple scoops over that fence into garden but it should have had a follow up on Sunday. 

It did not get the follow-up on Sunday,  I puttered on computer, wrote up a lease for the girl that stipulates that she can work 1/2 hour per ride rather than pay per ride which I have done before for calling it a partial feed lease for folks to ride Lady.   It was chilly but I did ride Tanza for half an hour or so in the paddock.  He was quite good for me, probably the best he has been so far in 2016.   Sadie walked over and then followed us a bit at one point.  She is getting bored.  I am wanting to ride her again too and she no longer shows any bobble to my eye when she trots in the pen so I think I can start riding her slowly or doing some leading out in March.   I did a load of laundry late and made pressure cooker pot roast (round steak cuts of deer meat)  The roast did not taste quite as good to me, but I used beef broth rather than plain water and adding that to my leftover gravy did improve the gravy flavor, so I'll use broth rather than plain water for next roast I cook.  

Dragging a bit at work with the Monday's and all.   I could not figure out how to pass variables in a slick way with our framework to put the orbit guy's stuff into our framework so decided I'll have to just have multiple option directories to get the functionality which is what is done now but this is more instances so would have been nice to avoid having to brute force things that way.   I wanted to choke the lead SE today when he was talking like his framework should allow something that it does not.  He should know/remember that he took that option out of the original software in order to get faster responses.  I always feel like he is playing dumb when he knows his software has a limitation but really he has been juggling many things and its been over 10 years since he wrote that framework code so he probably has honestly forgotten how it works.