I got your back, darling...I'll take over for a day.

What can I tell you? Hmmmm... hmmmmm..... Oh yeah! We're fostering kittens again. Right now we have four semi-feral kittens in our upstairs bedroom. They are probably 5 weeks old and very hissy and scared. We hear them bombing around like a herd of elephants at various times during the day. We also go visit with them and try to socialize them to people, but they really aren't interested. At least they know how to use the cat box and we don't have to keep them in the bathroom and clean cat shit off walls of the bathtub twice a day. That was fun. Real fun.

My two riding horses are in various states of disrepair. Miles was diagnosed with pedal osteitis a couple months ago, so no more jumping for him. Sigh. We never did even get to a show...Colin holds that honor. He's got a fancy kind of shoe in front, but I don't really like them - or at least I don't like how they were applied. And his medial-lateral balance is off, too, but the farrier thought there wasn't enough hoof to work with so he's waiting for the hooves to grow out a bit. I'm going to have my (new) regular farrier work on them next week.

Paddy has the on-going crack saga in his left hind. It is driving me crazy and is one of the reasons I switched farriers - for two years my old farrier wasn't able to fix it - we'll see if the new guy can. I put pictures on a horsey-bulletin board and got some comments about the balance of his feet so at least I feel like I have a game plan. I'm also taking him to the vet clinic for x-rays on Saturday to check out the balance of the bones inside the foot. Cha-ching!

But I'm sure that's all boring for you. So let's see, some spicy news...Pico is sitting on the couch farting next to me and whoooo boy it is not pleasant.

We're still waiting for Barley to ...dare I say it...kick it - have you ever had a pet that you just didn't like? My conscience keeps me from giving her away or taking her to the pound, but that dog drives me nuts and I have to admit I will probably not be too sad when she's gone. I'm such a bad person, I can't believe I just shared that.

We've got a busy social season planned - dinner with neighbors last night, drinks tonight with the same people + two more, a progressive dinner party with 18 of us on Friday night, the following weekend a holiday party, the weekend after that another holiday party. I've never been so busy!

Work is sucking because it is the holidays and we're very busy. I miss my old holiday work schedule of the closed office between Thanksgiving and New Year's. Those were the days, indeed.

Peeee - eeeewwwwww! Pico!!!!

Gotta go!
- posted by Susan @ 5:27 PM