Thursday, October 6
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Lovely weather. I am glad, since yesterday we got a little taste of cold and rain.
I got up a little early (for me) to meet the veterinarians here. My oldest horse Hollywood (she's the one in my icon) needed her teeth done (called "floating").
She has some places where her teeth don't meet up well, and because horse teeth keep emerging their whole life, wherever they don't meet up with the other tooth surfaces perfectly, they develop long parts that can interfere with chewing, or sharp edges to their teeth.
The vet sedates the horse, uses a speculum to hold the mouth open, and uses an electric grinding wheel on a long rod to take down these long/sharp spots so they can chew better, be more comfortable, and in riding horses be more comfortable with their bits.
It went fairly well. We can only do so much to correct her mouth at one time. I am very glad the vet used a conservative amount of sedative, because the last time she was too wobbly. Every time you sedate a horse, there is some risk.
After that, I came back in an had a nap (I already did my normal chores for animal care).
My Sweetie came back from work.
We went outside, let everyone out into their pastures for a while, and I got his help to pick manure in the pony pen and take it to the compost pile. The we took last year's stored potatoes out of the garage and dumped them on the compost pile. We put the tarp back on the shed (it's one of those fabric over a metal frame building, and the tarp is to cover a tear in the original cover).
We picked up a few things and moved them to sheds in anticipation of winter.
Then we went for a pasture walk with Roxy, and it was nearly dark, with an almost full moon rising.
Then we came in and watched an old movie called "Lyme Life"' which the cover said was hilarious, but was more of a coming of age family drama that was mildly funny, and kind of meh.
Today I learned that Idaho, in spite of being a land-locked state, has a sea port. Mainly because of a system of dams on the Snake River to control flooding. The port is near Lewiston.
"Thirty miles (50 km) northwest of the city is the Lower Granite Dam, the last and upper-most of the four dams on the lower Snake River, the largest tributary of the Columbia River. It was completed 47 years ago in 1975,[11] and raised the river level back to Lewiston, effectively making it the eastern end of the new reservoir, Lower Granite Lake. Because of these dams (and their locks), Lewiston is navigable by some ocean-going vessels. At 465 miles (750 km) upstream of the Pacific Ocean (at the mouth of the Columbia River, adjacent to Astoria, Oregon), the Port of Lewiston has the distinction of being the most inland seaport east of the West Coast,[12] and Idaho's only seaport. Barges of timber products, grain, and other goods are shipped via the Snake-Columbia system to the Pacific. The first barge went to Portland; it was loaded with wheat and departed Lewiston on August 9, 1975.[13][14]"
From Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewiston,_Idaho?repost
Lovely weather. I am glad, since yesterday we got a little taste of cold and rain.
I got up a little early (for me) to meet the veterinarians here. My oldest horse Hollywood (she's the one in my icon) needed her teeth done (called "floating").
She has some places where her teeth don't meet up well, and because horse teeth keep emerging their whole life, wherever they don't meet up with the other tooth surfaces perfectly, they develop long parts that can interfere with chewing, or sharp edges to their teeth.
The vet sedates the horse, uses a speculum to hold the mouth open, and uses an electric grinding wheel on a long rod to take down these long/sharp spots so they can chew better, be more comfortable, and in riding horses be more comfortable with their bits.
It went fairly well. We can only do so much to correct her mouth at one time. I am very glad the vet used a conservative amount of sedative, because the last time she was too wobbly. Every time you sedate a horse, there is some risk.
After that, I came back in an had a nap (I already did my normal chores for animal care).
My Sweetie came back from work.
We went outside, let everyone out into their pastures for a while, and I got his help to pick manure in the pony pen and take it to the compost pile. The we took last year's stored potatoes out of the garage and dumped them on the compost pile. We put the tarp back on the shed (it's one of those fabric over a metal frame building, and the tarp is to cover a tear in the original cover).
We picked up a few things and moved them to sheds in anticipation of winter.
Then we went for a pasture walk with Roxy, and it was nearly dark, with an almost full moon rising.
Then we came in and watched an old movie called "Lyme Life"' which the cover said was hilarious, but was more of a coming of age family drama that was mildly funny, and kind of meh.
Today I learned that Idaho, in spite of being a land-locked state, has a sea port. Mainly because of a system of dams on the Snake River to control flooding. The port is near Lewiston.
"Thirty miles (50 km) northwest of the city is the Lower Granite Dam, the last and upper-most of the four dams on the lower Snake River, the largest tributary of the Columbia River. It was completed 47 years ago in 1975,[11] and raised the river level back to Lewiston, effectively making it the eastern end of the new reservoir, Lower Granite Lake. Because of these dams (and their locks), Lewiston is navigable by some ocean-going vessels. At 465 miles (750 km) upstream of the Pacific Ocean (at the mouth of the Columbia River, adjacent to Astoria, Oregon), the Port of Lewiston has the distinction of being the most inland seaport east of the West Coast,[12] and Idaho's only seaport. Barges of timber products, grain, and other goods are shipped via the Snake-Columbia system to the Pacific. The first barge went to Portland; it was loaded with wheat and departed Lewiston on August 9, 1975.[13][14]"
From Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewiston,_Idaho?repost
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Date: 2022-10-07 10:43 pm (UTC)