Spring is here! Finally! Hope we get rain and the drought does not continue..we have had some rain, but still need more on a regular basis. The burn ban for McLennan county was lifted not long ago. I have a lot of stuff to burn down at the barn....old wood and paper feed sacks..a lot of feed sacks! Everything is green from the recent rains....just hope it stays that way. The warmer temperatures are very nice. It is good not to have to run the air conditioner day and night, just yet. Jayla, my 4-year-old beautiful black mare, got in the wire and cut her hind leg in the hock pretty badly a few weeks ago. All you can do is give antibiotics to combat infection, wash the wound as often as possible with a water hose, apply a topical antibiotic, and hope for the best. It is looking pretty good..still has a way to go to be well. It will leave a scar, but I can live with that. The good news is that she will not be crippled from it. She is in the front trap by herself, eating all that green grass that is coming up. Wow, the world looks so much brighter when it is Spring. My stallion, Mighty, is looking at his mares in a different way, as love is in the air! Hopefully, there will be two foals this year. Not sure if the old 26-year-old mare, named Jet for her sire, Jet's Payday, is in foal or not. Hope so, as she has been the money mare all thru the years, producing the barrel horse prospects that bring the most money due to her bloodlines. I have been so busy ...and just not felt like writing much lately. I was ill a lot in the winter months..I catch everything the kids at school get! I plan to write soon about my paternal grandmother, Sally Lee Allen Head, and her life in the '40's and '50's, before the time of TV, computers, and modern technology.
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