Two of our mares sold last night, so today Linda (the owner) took them up to Washington to meet their new humans. Which meant that Nikki and I got to go back and feed horses, change who was in the arena running around (although it's been sunny and hot for the past couple of days, the ground is still pretty wet), and, most importantly, let the puppy out to run around and pee.
Nikki knows the feeding schedule better than I do, so while she was scooping grain and carrying hay, I was running around in the sun with a young Australian Shepherd puppy. We're still teaching him not to jump up on people, but he did "sit" and "go get it" pretty well. I wasn't sure if he wanted me to throw his toy, play tug-of-war with his toy, or just admire it, though. He was pretty happy to sit on my boots and get his head scratched, regardless. Wash is a few months old and adorable! But I don't have any pictures -- I didn't want to bring my big camera to play with the puppy, and I don't have a point and shoot.
Oh yeah -- I definitely got the better end of this deal. Nikki feeds horses while I play with a hyperactive stuck-in-a-crate-all-day puppy. Though why Linda is trying to make an energetic breed into an indoor dog is just beyond me.
The ground here on the farm is still too wet to till, which is too bad. Our tomato plants are withering and yellowed, though the peppers are flowering. There is grass growing in the vegetable patch and I'm just a few steps closer to getting actual chickens. So far in the mail I've received a chick feeder, the screw-on bottom for a quart-jar-style waterer, and a 50-watt red heat bulb. I have a box to make into a brooder, and no cats have been in my room for over a week.
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