Not quite the beach adventures/BBQs/whatever else people do for Labor Day, but we had our own little Labor Day fun...
Spent the morning after AM horse chores (and a giant breakfast with freshly baked home-made biscuits) cleaning out the main living room. It'd been getting a little bit out of control the past couple days as Annie has been collecting "toys" on and around the couch. Unfortunately one of the great toys she found was a roll of toilet paper, so there was shredded toilet paper all over the couches and on the floor. BUT - it's all gone now! We swept, vacuumed, and took the rugs and couch covers outside to shake out the dust. We even went through the corner of free things and boxed up some clothes that had been sitting there to drop off at Goodwill.
We did all this cleaning because we are expecting a few overnight visitors in the next couple days. Either tomorrow or Wednesday, there is a lady coming up from Silver City, NM to spend a few days here and see the horses. She is interested in either adopting Barney or Elmo, and John is going to try and talk her into getting a donkey too so the horse can have a friend -- we'll see what she thinks when she gets here! Next weekend there is supposed to be a grandmother and her 9 year old granddaughter coming to see none other than the wonderful SIMON :) He's coming along great and I'm sure he will capture their hearts like he has mine!
We also spent some time talking out logistics this morning. John's goal for the month is to get 15 animals adopted and off the property. We did a count of all our equid residents and there are currently 55 horses/donkeys/zebra in total. Plus we are getting the last 4 of the BLM horses this week, probably tomorrow. That puts us up to 59 animals. Yikes!
John has an adoption event scheduled in Chama, NM the weekend I leave (Saturday and Sunday September 14th-15th!) He is hoping to get all of the Forest Service horses adopted by then -- meaning that Ms. June and dear Greta need to be finished with the training program by then! I'm not worried about June -- I took her for a walk on lead today out into a new pen and she took it all like a champ. Not worried one bit following me through narrow gates or walking around in a new area. The only problem we had was at the end of the session when she wasn't ready to go home yet! So of course she got to stay out and clean up hay crumbs off the ground ...no, none of our horses are spoiled, why do you ask? Greta is going to be a little bit more of a push to get done before I leave. She's come a long way, but every new task that comes along is a bit of a gamble in regard to how she will respond to it.
All in all, a long and busy day - whats new? :) Love Mustang Camp and wish I could stay forever...or take a mustang home with me... A girl can dream right?
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