Update

We had the propane people out today and they regooped the joints on all the piping. They said it had looked like the last guy used tub caulk for goop which is not good. Chandra called the Amerigas and they said they would be out tomorrow afternoon to turn back on the propane.

As for me I am felling better. The inflammation has went down.:) It took until about Sunday afternoon before I started to feel better. I have been able to shoe yesterday and today. It is just wearing me out a little more than usual. I was going about crazy just laying around last week. Who knows what I will be like come this weekend. I have had a couple of other horseshoers help me out and are willing to help me out for the next few weeks. I need to get some of the family to start learning how to shoe so that I can have them help me out. My father and father-in-law are both retired you would think one of them would be able to shoe a horse.

Dead Mouse or Propane Leak???

About a week ago we started to smell something out of the ordinary in our house. We decided it was a dead mouse in the duct work. Nothing is better than telling visitors to your house never mind the smell it is just a dead mouse we haven't been able to locate yet. :0 Of course we try to mask the smell with candles or spray but it ends up smelling like a mouse has died in the forest. After tearing apart some of the duct work trying to locate the smell and me and Chandra running around the house with our noses stuck in every crack saying I think it smells worse over here, we decided we were not going to find the cause of the smell. Thursday, after spending the day in the ER on Wednesday, as I was sitting in my chair half loony from the drugs I thought that smells more like propane today. We shut off the gas and called our propane company. They came out and checked and sure enough we have a leak. No we have leaks. The guy who installed the pipe did not use the right dope to seal the threads of the piping and after a few years they all have began to leak. The propane company completely shut off our gas until we have it fixed. Which means no furnace or water heater. With the wood stove we don't use the furnace much anyways so that's no big deal but I like to have hot water. We have a electric hot water heater that runs the mother-in-law suite, so I decided to hook up a hose from the washing machine and run it to the bathroom so we can have hot water to bathe. Nothing says class like a 25 foot garden hose running through your living room and kitchen to the bathroom.

ER

I spent the entire day in the ER. Yesterday I was fine until about 6 p.m. Then all of a sudden my right side started to hurt. Chandra took Lexi to her soccer game and I watched the two little ones. I was in some pain but not too bad. By the time Chandra got home at 9 p.m I was starting to hurt pretty bad. The pain had spread down into my right testicle. I decided not to go spend the night in the ER and see if I could tough it out. Well this morning the pain had went for almost intolerable to excruciating. So after Chandra dropped the kids off at school we went to Grady's ER. I told her on the way I know a few people that work here I really hope I don't see them and have to explain about how my testicle was hurting. Wouldn't you know the very first person that checks me in is one of my customers. :) What brings you in? :0 Then she informs me that another one of my customers is working today. Great!! At this point I am in so much pain I don't really care if I have to strip down in the waiting room and show everybody. After a bunch of test and a few thorough exams, I have Gall Stones. Now the Gall bladder is inflamed and is inflaming my right testicle who really has nothing to do with this expect being amazingly sore. I can't walk, sit or lay down. They gave me some pretty good pain medicine and some antibiotics to bring this inflammation down. Next Thursday they have decided to take out my gall bladder if I can wait that long. Little Winnie sat there all day and did pretty well. Although she did lick everything from one end of the room to the other. We had planned on going to Fort Rapids next Friday and Saturday because the kids have the day off of school well Daddy has ruined that for everyone.

Update

About 12 weeks ago I started trimming this horse. He is a draft horse and probably weighs close to 2100 pounds. :0 I don't usually trim draft horses. This guy is still real nervous and has to be sedated.
I am amazed at how fast his feet have started to look normal. This is a picture of his feet 12 weeks later after being trimmed 3 times. He had been neglected for several years.

Double Chin Reducer

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First Grumpy Hat

It was December 24th and everyone decided it would be fun to go down to the newly built City Center. As we went to leave the car was stuck in the snow. I went to the barn put on my old barn boots and got a shovel to shovel out the car. Everyone else was inside keeping warm. Well I finally got the car out and we all loaded into the station wagon to go to the big city. It wasn't until we were about to park in the City Center's garage that it dawned on me that I was still wearing my barn boots. These boots had been around for a while and had cleaned out a lot of dirty horse stalls, so to say they had a bit of a aroma is an understatement. No big deal I'll just buy me a pair of shoes in one of the stores as soon as we get in there. City Center was brand new and the stores were a little on the pricey side and I am a lot on the cheap side. The first store we looked at the shoes were all around the $200 mark and that wasn't going to happen. By the way these boots were insulated so that as I walked around the mall that was a 100 degrees my own body heat was making the aroma even more pleasant. So after an entire afternoon of me moaning and groaning about my intoxicating smell and why anyone would even want to shop on Christmas Eve, Chandra came out of the Disney Store with my first Grumpy hat which I proudly wore from that day forward.

Riding in the front seat

When me and my sister were kids we used to fight about who got to ride in the front seat of the car. Anytime we went anywhere there was always some fussing that went on about who got the front. Funny thing is neither one of us usually wanted to sit in front on the way home. There was a good reason for this, mainly after a few hours of shopping with us our mother was aggravated at our behavior. On the way home who ever was in the front seat was in the smacking zone.:)

I remember one day going shopping and it started out with us fighting over the front seat. It wasn't too long into the shopping experience that my sister was pressing her luck. Finally our mom got down in my sisters face telling her that if she didn't straighten up we would be going home. Right then my sister decides that she should inform our mom that she had bad breath. She said this loud enough for everyone to hear. That was it we were done shopping and headed back to the car. As we are making a b-line to the car my sister looks at me and says you can sit up front on the way home.