Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Just a lil' bit moody... te he he

Ok, well i wrote this about an hour and a half ago and since then the internet has redeemed itself and come back to life... needless to say im in a much better mood after the discovery! ...

Wednesday 27th September 06
8:03pm
Well just as my laptop problems are solved, the internet breaks down… FABULOUS. (excuse the sarcasm)… other technology problems happening this week also include a broken microwave, my mp3 player having a hissy anytime I touch it and also this laptop occasionally deciding to shutdown at random intervals and also choosing not to respond to keys being pressed whilst typing so I am pretty much slamming every key as I type to ensure that whole words come out rather than just random letters… so im having fun. (sorry im in a sarcastic mood… as if you didn’t notice already). Today was a pretty average day for me down at the barn, to give you some idea of what an ‘average’ day is for me, it involves rolling out of bed at 7:55am and being in the barn by 8am, haying the horses, haying paddocks, conjuring up an abundance of medicated grain for the breakfast of four sickly horses we have in the barn (all with leg injuries), graining the other ’normal’ horses and throwing several of them out into various paddocks. Then I muck out stalls and clean up the barn area and do random odd jobs like cleaning troughs or buckets or cleaning tack…. Today however, I gave Olga’s mother a riding lesson (she had never been on a horse before) and then headed up to the house for lunch. After lunch I drove the big tractor (which is HUGE fun) around our ‘top ring’ and picked up random stuff like standards (things that hold jumps up) and poops and anything else in the ring, so that Arno can drag it “tomorrow” (which actually means next week sometime.) Anywhos after that had some fun and painted jump poles. After several fights with many paint cans, I eventually came up with two decently painted red and white jump poles and one decently painted, multi coloured, me! I then brought all of the horses in from the paddocks and put them in their clean stalls so that they could spend the night making them disgusting again, and hayed and grained the appropriate horses. I then put on a trusty pair of surgical gloves and began ‘playing vet’ and tended to the leg injuries of my four legged friends, by scrubbing and cleaning sores, inserting my hand into a rather large wound on one particular ‘patient’ (no further details are necessary) and giving injections etc etc… all that fun and disgusting stuff. I then headed up to the house for dinner and burnt my finger with some rather hot oil, discovered that there was no internet, swore and cursed at the computer a little and finally came to my room to write about my day due to the serious lack of other things to do. Wow…. Im in a good mood! K, well I think its about time I went and did something productive and put myself in a better frame of mind… Tom the farrier comes tomorrow (which means yummy, yummy muffins for Dani… no im serious, he brings the most delicious ‘corn muffins’ – which are just frickn normal muffins as far as I can tell - with him every time he visits!) so im hoping I will have happier stories tell of tomorrow… like muffins… mmmmm muffins. Anyways I will stop rambling on about random food items and let you all get back to your normal lives…. Adios! xoxoxo

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hey Dan
Sounds like you are becoming quite the horse expert.Way to go! Trip to Canada sounds great. Do you know what is happening for Christmas. Will you be spending it with Arno and new wife or friends or what? Same deal with New Years. Are you freezing your butt off yet?
I hope your enjoying your muffins by now. Your mum is pretty excited about coming over to see you. I think getting to play horses with you is a big icing on the cake too.
Miss you heaps....look forward to your next news. Take care. Lots of love A Tina + Ivan xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx