Oh my goodness, your poor starving lil horsy! Poor dear must have been skin and bones by the time you arrived!
Do you know why she choked? Do horses bolt their food when given tasty stuff? Anyhow, dang for both of you and I hope it doesn’t happen again. Give her some ear rubs for me when you are there for dinner.
If you haven’t updated your windows, you might think about it as well. Windows are much different nowadays and do a much better job of insulating your home than the old single pane windows do, plus you can get double hung windows so you can wash the outsides from the inside.
We used to pay someone to wash the outsides of our windows every spring, now I can clean them whenever I get annoyed by them.
I use the winters for cleaning out the closets and such because spring is when its time to play in the garden. Windows got cleaned in the spring because that’s when most of the rain was over for the year but that’s about all the special cleaning I do in the spring.
I’m planning on having the house painted this year if I can get the paint figured out. Picking colors is not my forte and there are way too many choices. This is probably going to be a room by room thing, if I wait to start until I have all of the colors picked, it won’t get done for years or decades. I should probably go to Lowes and get more paint chips for the living room. The ones I have taped to the wall aren’t thrilling me as much as they did in the store under different lighting.
It always surprises me to see Harry’s raven actually fly anymore. I’ll bet he weighs at least five pounds now that he’s basically a house bird.
UFOs! Now I get it.
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I also have an Oort jar 
The Oort cloud is made up of the leftover bits and pieces from the creation of the universe, my Oort jar is full of the leftover bits and pieces of thread from my creations.
Some folks date and keep their jars as a visual reminder of all the stitching they have done, I don’t. Mostly I have it because I’m lazy. If I put the little bits of cut off thread on my desk, the ceiling fan will waft them off to the floor where the cats might eat them. Not wanting to get up and go to the trash every time I cut a thread, I put them in a jar to keep them in place and then dump the jar when it gets full.
Every so often I’ll play thread chicken and lose, so being able to dig around and find a three inch bit of thread for just two stitches can be very helpful
So today dawned wet and soggy. It is supposed to warm up to around 70 and then get warmer for the rest of the week. The doves and gold finches have been around for breakfast, I haven’t seen any starlings for a couple of days which is kinda odd. I would have thought that once they found a sucker with seed, they would be back daily.
We don’t have anything planned for today besides the normal day to day chores. I washed all of the pillow cases and table linens yesterday so I’ll probably get them ironed today. If I go to Lowes, I’ll have lunch at Capt D’s. Hubs has never been a fan of seafood in the past so I won’t feel badly about having a treat while he’s eating a baked chicken breast for lunch.
I wish he liked stir-fry. I could use up a lot of the freezer meat in that, but he is still adjusting to eating mostly not-meat for every meal and it isn’t going that well. He still considers lettuce to be a salad dressing delivery system and doesn’t think that seeing a lot of colors on his plate is a good thing.
We always get the spoiled ones too. We just do not understand how that keeps happening!
I just cannot understand why folks with GD are considered to be a threat to anyone but themselves. I don’t think that the GD is the reason for folks to feel suicidal, its societies reaction to it that is the cause. People should stop worrying about what happens between consenting adults and start worrying about what is happening to non-consenting people instead.
I must be more intimidating than you, the fuzzbutts gave up fighting me over their claws long ago. Of course, cats sleep more than dogs so I can wait until they are sleeping and do one paw at a time. It might take me a few days to get them all but I don’t really care as long as they don’t have daggers on their toes when they are making biskits on me.