Hay is for horses

John drove up to Colorado today to pick up some more hay for us. It was supposed to be a good day to do that - no rain forecasted.

Of course when does weather ever cooperate... As Pat and I started our first training sessions, we had a short downpour. About 5-10 minutes of giant raindrops. This actually happened about 3 separate times today. When we didn't see many trucks going by as the day came to a close, we became a little concerned that John might get flooded out. Especially when Pat got a text from John saying "no tarp"...meaning John hadn't brought a tarp with him to cover the hay and keep it from getting wet.

As we were prepping to feed dinner to all the horses, the rains started again. We decided that we would finish feeding, then drive up the road to meet John where the rainwater had probably started running and created a stream in the road that he wouldn't be able to cross. About halfway through feeding the horses though, the rain stopped. A couple minutes later, John pulls up with hay in tow. Somehow - miraculously - he had managed to make it all the way home without getting rained on. No wet hay for us!!

On a less positive note, Fremont has a pretty bad infection on his leg. Spot had gotten loose in the same pen as Fremont overnight 2 days ago, and Fremont got bitten up pretty bad. We had put some stuff on his bites to cover them up and keep them from getting infected, but it looks like we must have missed one - or this one was from something else. He had a deep puncture wound just above the outside of his knee, and his leg had gotten all swollen and there was pus draining from the wound when we saw it this morning. Poor baby... He's going on antibiotics and we've been putting antibacterial creams and been washing it out. Unfortunately Fremont's still in pretty bad shape weight-wise from when he had been at his previous adopters. Just hoping that his body is strong enough to fight off the infection. Fingers crossed for the sweet boy to recover.