Allergy season can end anytime now

I jogged yesterday, only about my 4th time and its going pretty well, taking MSM regularly has my knees feeling better than a few years ago; but I hit a patch of trail with lots of blooming trees and it felt like the pollen was smacking me. I hope I'm still not allergic to grass and just have to get through the flowering season and thank GOD I live in the era of cheap readily available drugs. I hope SCOTUS rescues the nation from the Obamacare bill which will inevitably lead to great reductions in innovative new drugs etc if it is not tossed. I don't know if congress can ever be wise enough to toss it.

I have the vet coming to give Sadie a lameness eval. She was wheeling away from hay piles and cantering sound with a couple sound looking floaty trot stride, but yesterday I noticed swelling around the suspensory ligament on that RF hoof that I think is bruised and decided I wanted a professional opinion. My record on telling if its just a hoof issue or a suspensory is not great, Grey and Cindy both had several days when I was thinking 'hoof issue' and they had ligament issues and I wanted to know if I should see if I can still get a lesson with Stacy Westphall (bah google its close enough) in July.

It really would not make sense to go with Shade or Grey, as they don't move like reiners. I could borrow Razz as a back up but I don't want to sign up unless Sadie should be able to go.

Heres your signs?

Maggie left, NOAA is dragging heels on funding the project which is the reason our group exists-- the AF is picking up the slack for now but Barry is seriously slashing military budgets so if he gets reelected....

And today email from our Program director. Previous president of our parent agency retired in December. New president is eliminating our directors position who oversaw multiple small spin-off, non core, groups like mine....

Criminy, of course I have 'in group' bias but I think the spin-off groups were the most productive in the whole organization; we all had more flexibility and I think most groups, not just ours, had to write proposals for special funding so we had a sort of capitalist type competition to keep us from just getting an entitled bureaucrat mentality. So THIS is where they choose to start cutting?

I think I really have to quit trying to avoid change. I know I'm only being human in wanting things to stay the same but I like to think I'm smart enough to understand that life/reality etc. does not work that way. It is probably time to be pro-active instead of waiting until I'm forced to react.

Bought another 50lbs of sand clear yesterday

I had been thinking that I would make mom or dad buy future sand clear for the minis partly to give them some more incentive to not stir up the sand in that pen. I get so annoyed when mom strips the pens and stirs up sand where I had built up a layer of hay and manure mulch. I only clean out the deep spots and then I only move that 'mulch' to a spot that is too sandy when cleaning a pen is up to me; but mom is driven by the aesthetics rather than what is healthier for the critters and she had a little burst feeling semi-healthy and being ambitious in early Jan.

but CJ had a colic episode thursday morning. Vet wants him to get 10 days of sand clear and I will dose the 3 horses in with him as well on at least some of the days when I don't feel like taking CJ out + with the thought that they probably have some sand too. At least I didn't have to pay CJ's vet bill of $178. Yesterday I had to get feed so I looked at their sand clear prices. $126 for 20 lbs. So I got the 50 lb size from horse.com for $176 + $20 shipping charge. Got more MSM and Corta-flex while I was at it, and they had a little 'Rider Rasp' that looked like it might be just the thing for rasping on the mini feet. Only 5 inches long and has a plastic knuckle strap. Which is so NOT washing my hands of the mini situation. I'll just have to juggle as best I can. I don't want to short my riding time and care of the horses *I* bought, but its not in my nature to just let the mini's colic or the young twerp mini that they should never have taken on IMO ruin his joints with the too long hooves under my nose.

Mustn't burn bridges and harden hearts

But I am CRANKY today and tempted to spout off to the rich gal who is so excited that her tax credit solar panels are making lots of electricity with some heavy snark that I hope her grandkids don't end up paying a terribly high price. And I mustn't even think about the gal who went to nursing school and I'm fairly sure that was on one of Barry/Nanzi's programs and posted a week or 2 ago that yay she got the job working 1.5 days a week for a church doing some kind of newletter I think and maybe some general secretary stuff. Way to pay back the taxpayers missy. You rock. Oh well pot/kettle my job is entirely taxpayer funded, and pre-Barry I always thought I and pretty much 90% or better of the people there were giving good value -- now not so much, but I don't feel like the gub'mint will waste any less money if I quit and the program does actually produce data useful for weather forecasting, we are not torturing statistics to say that tree rings confirm a 3x multiplier sensitivity to CO2 or other totally fraudulent 'climate' research in our little group.

The pollen is back

I maybe could have skipped taking allergy drugs on monday but was stuffy so I took them. Yesterday the rain and snow had knocked all the pollen out of the air so I could breath easy all day without taking anything. Today the sun is shining and all the trees and other spring flowering plants are working overtime to catch up I think. I must get moving, told someone I would be in Boulder after noon (loaning her Grey's Little Joe bareback pad) and she just emailed that she will be there right around noon.

YAY its snowing , Shade got her adequan Monday

OK is really rain/snow mix. Anyway it is Moisture, blessed blessed moisture. I don't think we'll get the 'up to 1 inch of water' that the regional forecast said was possible on our sandhill but at least its some.

I gave Shade her adequan monday. Over 6 weeks is too long between doses, Saturday I went a bit on hard packed dirt road and I could feel she was a little off on the arthritic fetlock. Sadie went out on Saturday and again on Sunday when L was out to ride Lady. Both good rides, no drama, which was probably helped by the 80+ temps. Spring time in Colorado, hot to snow from sunday to monday night. I've gotten to love it; it really sets the insects back for one think and its a great excuse for being so slow to get snow tires on and off the vehicles and so on.

Grey Moun has gained weight being just with Lady and I need to actually cut his soaked feed ration back a little bit. I think he is loving this set up, enough calories to have energy to be a bit of a rascal and Lady totally caves to him. She was crawling through the divider fence to hang out with Sadie some (Sadie is only horse we have that defers to Lady, and I suspect if I put just the 2 of them together full time Sadie might decide she was going to swap positions at some point.)

WI recall election is polling too close to call so I think I have a spot where I feel like I can push back against the marxists.

I am Done with Jay Leno

Kind of sad as he IS funny at times and occasionally even makes jokes that point out some of king Putts idiocy, but last week I was home and the tonight show was on and Jay had Piers Morgan on totally pushing the Trayvon Martin is a miscarriage of justice story. Piers " Its a travesty that Americans can legally carry guns like this BLAH BLAH BLAH." Having that kind of thing in the Tonight Show setting with no one to give a counter point is just not correct even if it was not only done in the context of pushing the democrats' side. WTH Leno, you get a pass but in general the Democrats meme is that it is just HORRIBLE that someone could collect and actually USE all those high powered gas fueled vehicles like you do? Why not just advocate for freedom instead of pushing their other nanny state/ totalitarian memes in order to earn your pass for the gas guzzlers?

I'm extra hurt because Leno started out sticking to the Carson template of staying away from taking a side politically (as far as I remember anyway). It was always clear that Letterman sided with his liberal New Yorker neighbors but I mistook Leno's mostly impartial past stance as him leaning a bit conservative so it stings to learn that that was only professionalism and he is willing to discard that professionalism to aid king Putt and the left now.