They clean up the seeds they spill, too. The cats seem to be leaving them alone.
Went for a nice bareback ride on Beamer, and we saw our hawk again. Perched on top of the tree, he watched us approach, and once again, graced me with a photo op- this time from behind.
My ride on Beamer was wonderful as usual, and I practiced bareback posting a little- can you say sore inner thighs? I always practice riding with no hands , inspired of course by Stacey Westfall, and it's a lot of fun. We can sidepass, circle, and stop, and we are working on the spin; if I start it with the reins, I can continue without them, and we are working on the bridleless back up too. All at a walk of course. This next pic is for Janice who says I never show Beamer all dirty; no matter how much I brush I can't get the residual summer dust off him. I may have to vacuum him.
I took Chickory for a walk, in hand, and we checked fence in the summer mare pasture. She was very patient with me as I wound up a lot of electric fence wire that had fallen down- it's the small wire that she was tangled in earlier in the fall, and tore a bunch of it down. She didn't try to dive to the grass and graze as I was struggling to wind up all that wire, and showed curiosity and calmness even when we got a loop of it around her front hoof, standing quietly while I sorted things out. Good Chickory!
I noticed that she has a chapped eye, and I wonder if any of you know what I can do to treat this:
Poor girl! I'm not sure if it's pink eye, the other eye is just fine.
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pollysporin...great for the eye!
Vetricyn has an eye ointment gel out now, if you can find it, I like that.
Now, posting bareback. Girl...lol, you are gonna be hurtin' tomorrow.. I could do it so well as a kid, as an adult...HA! Much more painful. Those muscles don't DO that anymore.
Great pics as always!
Nice shots as usual. Your birds are much prettier than mine all I get around here is crows and they are annoying.....I'd rather have none.I want to go for a ride so bad but first we had ice and I couldn't get to the tack shed now it's just too cold!Hey he is a horse....with dirt:) I now have a mental pic of you out there with the vaccum giving him the once over....thanks for the chuckle.
We put feed out for the birds the a couple of weeks ago and the chickadee's are finally coming in. You will find that once you have snow on the ground you will go through even more bird seed! I think it is worth it though!! I would rather ride bareback anyday, just because I get lazy once in a while and don't want to deal with a saddle.
Love your bareback riding routine! I like the soreness (the your still mobile kind) reminds me I have muscles and it makes me happy to be using them.
Hey you could hand vacuum Beamer, with some desensitizing. We were required to use hairdryers on the horses at a stable I used to ride at. Took f-o-r-e-v-e-r to untack & dry an unclipped horse in the winter. Noise is about the same. On a similar note, I vacuum my cat. He loves it and comes running every time I turn it on.
I envy you the finches....all that's left here are sparrows and magpies. I'd probably use polyspron on the eye just because I have it around.
Very cool, looks like all the birds here have flown the proverbial coop..:-)
...ha ha! Let me know how the "vacuuming" goes. Also, I'd love to know what you end up doing to treat the eye...
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