Packed Almost

Today should have been March 1st, except this year we get an extra day. This is leap year. Thankfully the last day of February was a nice one. Perfect for packing. Emily took the truck and trailer over to Gary's and picked up 28 bales of hay then backed the trailer into the indoor and loaded up 30 bags of bedding for our stalls down at the fair. I drove in to Meister's paid the first of the month bills one day early then went to Sam's, Dollar General and TSC to buy groceries, and dog food at the first store, shampoo, conditioner and padlocks at the second store, and hardware for hanging 20 buckets at the third store. When I got back I started packing the trailer with everything that was in my upstairs closet, the one that held the cotton candy machine, popcorn machine supplies, folding tables and trinkets. This meant trip after trip up and down the stairs out to the car then up to the trailer. Only a couple more things need to be hauled down tomorrow. Karin arrived before I finished so together we started cleaning tack, lots of tack.  The saddle racks were hosed down and moved in the trailer then once each saddle was done it was thrown on the rack. Mark came home a bit early and fixed the pedestal which was also loaded. Once the arena was watered, Karin started bringing in the mares for training. Ribbon was brought in first. She was due to be de-wormed and was given 2 Ivermectins. When Karin went to bring in Marika she Marika wouldn't put her left hind foot down. Karin grabbed a hoof pick and we cleaned that hoof to find an old rusty nail stuck in. When we pulled out the nail were shocked to see blood and find it almost an inch into her hoof. Marika was given a tetanus shot in November so was good on that but she needed to have her hoof washed clean, iodine applied, foot wrapped and then given 35ccs of Sulfa. She is now stalled and will probably need to stay that way for a bit and will be given Sulfa for the 7 days.  She has 5 days before she needs to be sound but more than that we are praying this heals clean. Puncture wounds are terrible and infection can fester inside so bad sometimes the horse will need to be put down.
The new 32GB camera card arrived, Darcy was listening to me mumble about hoping it worked so I snapped the picture below. She is such a good listener and never cares when I mumble.

 Later this afternoon Emily moved both trailers out of the way and started the burn pile. It was perfect burning weather, the wind had died down and rain is predicted tomorrow. The fire was warm and inviting as the sun set and the air chilled.

Tomorrow I should stop at Sam's and pick up one more 50 pound bag of popcorn. Karin picked up a 50 pound bag today along with 4 gallons of popping oil, and 2 cases of cotton candy which are all loaded into the trailer. It is NICE having so much room in the trailer.
After cleaning all that tack tonight my hands smell like Murphy's oil soap.