Week Three-Dec. 31st-Jan. 6th, 2009

Cannot understand normal thinking. BL losing rational thought.

Wed.31st - 5 hours. upper lower water tubs frozen solid. took out individual buckets - 2 for each horse with mixed warm water. No cat food, no supplements or feed for two horses, BL decided to just feed them another type of feed. Don't people realize that bad hay in cold weather doesn't keep horses healthy or warm? Discussion (I stayed out of this one) was that just feed more grain, hay doesn't keep them warm. Hay analysis came back for present mixed bales, not fit for horses. Vets said AG people wrong. Give MORE FEED - They get enough of what they need in their feed. (Just a thought, but this is ONLY IF THEY ARE GIVEN THE RECOMMENDED AMOUNT OF FEED FOLKS.) These horses get 1/4 to 1 scoop of feed 2 x a day, with most of them getting less than 1/2 scoop. The hay situation will not change.

Jan 1st - 5 hours. Normal day, stalls, frozen lines, trash everywhere, longe line and whips thrown all over arena, with chairs inside arena. What else is new. Doors open Upper barn, horses out but fence not on. stalls a mess.

Jan 2nd - 4 hours went to get hay. 300 lbs. $78. paid 24 cents / lb., but great gorgeous Timothy from Idaho.

Jan 3rd - 5.5 hours - another day in the trenches, two of the stalls I clean every day are just sopping wet every day. They honestly need to be stripped every day, or the horses left out, or mats put in stall. BL cannot grasp the fact that the hemp fabric on the floors actually HOLDS WATER AND URINE - not to mention bacteria, mold, making a bad situation even worse for one of the schoolmasters who is 22 and has a raging lung infection, expelling thick yellow gobs of mucus daily from his nose. I've stopped trying to make suggestions, it falls on deaf ears.

Jan 4th - Sunday - 5 hrs- Lower barn feed, hay turn out. Upper barn, 2 of boarders horses have no feed. no supplements. No numbers at upper barn for owners. Top board and post broken in pintos field.

Jan 5th - Monday -4.5 hours - Turn out hay feed. move more feed to upper barn, take off blankets, upper barn feed hay take off blankets rode Harry, cleaned 4 paddocks hay 2x.
Tues. 6th, off.