I'm not actively wishing it, I'm not close friends with folks there, but I like most of them and don't want their lives disrupted. But part of me has been wishing for an outside force to make my job vanish. I've been doing better the last few weeks. Starting to take a day off every couple of weeks to just go riding. I need to just keep taking care of myself and having fun and not think I have to solve every problem at work. And I'm pecking away at home life. I threw out a few boxes of crap from the shed last weekend. I got my car in and got new tires put on it today, then got a few things at Walmart and bought a couple of mouse traps at TSC. I have a mouse in my bedroom. Ugh, it was making noise last night and I didn't sleep very well.
I'm no longer riding with L and F together. It has been so much more fun and relaxing just to go with either F and her slower mare or with L and Taj. Two weeks ago L and I went to Lory state park. Abe was swirling, someone had taken off a few minutes before we got mounted and he wanted to go catch that horse. L had to hold him for me to get on. I turned on a different trail away from how they had gone and it was technical and climbing right away. And kept climbing a lot. Taj actually got tired. It was a nice change from Taj and Abe getting all racey with each other.
When I ride with just F and her mare, Abe is pretty chivalrous, lets me rate him to a slower trot so slow mare can keep up better and so on. Yesterday F and I went to Sharptail. I was leading Abe on the way back, cuz F's mare had been bobbing her head when trotting, plus I'm trying to get in some walking and hopefully lose some spare tire, and I accidentally went off the main trail. I didn't want to climb back up the hill so I tried taking a short cut but we hit a fence line and had to bushwhack up a pretty steep hill to get back to the actual trail. I got on Abe for going up the steep hill, F and her mare did very well clambering up the hill on no trail. F had her Renegade hoof boots on the mare and a new one had a cable break. That had probably been irritating the mare, F said she moved better after I had noticed it and she took the boot off. Mare does move funny on that leg due to an old injury, maybe she lands crooked and puts extra stress on the hoof boot.
Hopefully mouse goes for the bait tonight, I bought their mouse attractant gel as well as 2 traps. I have 8 more traps ordered from Amazon. The Victor, metal tab ones I had did catch some mice with raisins wedged in the tab but the last few that I had are pretty well shot; I bought Tomcat ones that are set up to not have to touch the mouse after the trap springs, they were rated pretty high. I had bought some cheapo glue boards, not sure if they would even work on mice, they are good for bugs. I had some more $$ glue boards and did get some mice with them a couple years ago, but I don't like using the glue boards, if I spot the mouse on them right away I have to whack it with something and dispatch it, and if I don't check one that had been getting no action and then find a dead mouse later I feel bad. But I'm not doing any catch and release traps. I want the mice dead, I just want it to be close to instant death. Hoping this different snap design works and I can get rid of the mice.
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