Never a Dull Moment

 Yesterday after teaching, we took Beau to the vet.

The tranquilizer didn't work.

And his ears aren't getting better.

So they put some "gel" antibiotic in his ears

and gave me a prescription for Ace (horse tranquilizer)

for our next visit.

Which will be while I'm out of town.

So Kyle gets to go it alone...

When we got home we dropped the dog off

and then went to Lowe's to get some stuff

to fix the door handle on Kyle's car.

On the way home Coach Rosalie texted she

was having trouble with her Zoom again,

but by the time I got to the house and on the

computer, she seemed to be fine.

About 7:45 while we were waiting for the horses to eat their

dinner, we were watch TV in the living room and

I heard a man's voice say "Hi".

We both thought it was Rod.

Weird he came home early and

didn't just come in the house.

Turns out it was a neighbor, Fred, 

who lives down the road. 

He was standing outside the front (screen) door.

Kyle worked for them feeding and mucking

and doing general barn yard stuff back when he was

in home school / high school. (14 years ago...)

He wanted to know if we knew anybody with a

backhoe, one of his boarder's horses just died and

they needed to bury it.

We don't have a backhoe, but Kyle is pretty amazing

at making his Cat do stuff it wasn't designed for.

So he swapped out his mulcher head for some forks

and a bucket and we headed down there.

In the dark.

He dug the hole and I managed the sad people.

Once the hole was dug I told everyone to say their

final goodbyes and head back up to the barn.

NOBODY needs to see their horse being dragged

to a hole. And of course, once we got it in the hole

it landed on its back with all 4 feet sticking straight

up in the air. Had to figure out a way to roll it 

over - while it is in the bottom of a deep hole

that is filling with water.

(Welcome to Florida!)

But we got it done, Kyle got the hole all 

filled in again and smoothed out.

And the young son of the sad lady planted

a flower in the dirt.

And then the skies opened up and it poured rain.

Fred was very appreciative and wants to talk

to Kyle about some clearing / mulching he needs

done on the back of his property.

So that was good.

And we were able to help a neighbor in need.

And that's always good.

No pictures.

You're welcome.

Again.

Gratuitous picture from the rodeo cuz there has to be SOMETHING...

and it was KIND of like a rodeo.....