Leaky Meltdown

Early this morning Mark was messing with the electric  breakers and accidentally turned off the one to the family room which happens to be the room the computers are in. When the breaker was turned back on the computer would not turn back on. Time to call Taegan, my 3 year old grand daughter! On the walk this morning we discovered Rosaleigh and Roxanne had broken the float off their automatic waterer again! This time Emily wasn't able to fix it so to stop the water from flowing we jammed a brick under the broken float area knowing once the water in the reservoir was gone the 4 horses sharing this would be thirsty. Rosaleigh

was put in with Ribbon

and Ayanna

while Indy

was put in the middle paddock and Eliza

put in with Roxanne

. This was to give these girls an education on how to behave with dominant mares. The first thing Rosaleigh did was to threaten to kick Ayanna. Well Ayanna was having none of that and went after her big time. Rosaleigh was shocked and ran to Ribbon who also went after her. Now for the record both of these mares are too big and slow to hurt agile fast Rosaleigh but they are sure scary enough to knock this highfalutin prima donna with an attitude right off her throne. The plan on the the waterer was for me to fill it as soon as I got home from work but by the time I got home the horses had knocked the waterer off the base allowing the water to pour out. Emily set it back up and stopped the leak again, then was in doing homework, looked out the window and there was Rosaleigh outside her window. The mares had run her into the gate knocking it off the hinge and allowing all three mares to break out and wander the neighborhood. Once the mares were put back and the gate up it was back to studying for Emily. When I got home from work Tom, the electrician was here to work on our disconnect at the house. He needed to shut off the electricity again and this time to the barn too leaving the barn and the apartment dark. Emily found it kind of hard to do homework in the dark. She left for school about the same time I needed to leave for Mary See's visitation. Walking to the garage to get into the car I see the waterer is again knocked sideways with water pouring out. Mark was asked to shut the water off to everything until I could get home. Mom and I arrived at the funeral home right at 4:00 pm and were on our way back by 4:30 pm. I quickly changed back into my muddy barn clothes, turned the water back on and went out to fix the waterer. Mike arrived right after with everything needed to fix it properly. We needed to move in a couple bales today in the middle paddock.  Mark was up at the barn working on the solar system and offered to help with that.  Emily had stopped after school at Big R's to pick up vaccines for the horses spring shots which we are giving early this year as I want the horses vaccinated before taking them to the fair. She bought all they had but they were short one shot. She gave all the horses the shots except for Oksana while Mark and I were putting in the bales. We will need to pick up a shot for Oksana next week. When the mares were grained tonight Rosaleigh was nice and submissive. It didn't take her long to learn a few herd manners.  I was able to get the computer running this evening but I really don't know how this happened so we are not sure what causes the problem and really not sure how to fix it.
The day started out with problems which seemed to continue most of the day but by this evening every problem was fixed and I am thankful.