Comment spam, misc. musings about my horses

I find it hard to believe in a way that there have been 14,981 spam comments made here on my blog!  One reason why I really like WordPress is because there are so many plugins that do so many things – including filter out spam.  It does a pretty good job!  But, it’s not perfect – there are times that it spams a comment that shouldn’t be.  I try to check on that once a week and release any that shouldn’t be in ‘spam’.  If you have left a comment and it doesn’t show up immediately (wait say 5 min. and hit reload) let me know – as the comments aren’t moderated and should show up unless the spam filter thinks they are spam.

The last couple of days have been pretty uneventful where the horses are concerned, which is GREAT!  I have had more than enough excitement this last week to last awhile.  A very long while….

Tonight I’ll get Bo out on the trail for a ride.  He’s a real character and doing great recovering from his leg injury.  My vet has me riding him every day and we have worked up to about forty minutes a day, mostly walk with a few minutes of trotting.  It isn’t easy to get a horse as fit as Bo is to just trot calmly for such a short period of time.  Yesterday Bo tried to sneak in a few canter strides, like maybe I wouldn’t notice (haha, actually I notice before he does it and then we have a little bit of an argument about it– I always win!).  Bo is feeling good, looking great and things are progressing nicely with his rehab.  I’ll know more when the vet checks him in another probably 30 days or so and hope to get the okay to put him back to work.  It’s only been a little over a month now.  In some ways it seems longer (probably because I’ve been riding him every.single.day….) and in other ways it doesn’t seem that long at all.

Chief has one more day to go on his antibiotics and boy am I happy to report that his eylid injury has been healing up splendidly!  Good patient.  Don’t know if I mentioned it but this was the first time that I’ve had a horse get stitches….in the last 17 years that I’ve had horses as an adult!!!  I sure hope that this doesn’t signal a turnaround in my luck in that regard and things can go back to being pretty dull and uneventful in regards to horse boo-boos.  I am used to minor dents and dings (especially with Rocky, who is good at getting them).  It was very unusual for Chief though.  But, we all know that you can bubble wrap horses and they’ll still find a way to get into trouble.  Probably suffocate, or develop a skin rash, eh?

Next I’m going to post a photo my husband took for Skywatch Friday.