Jail House Rock: Chain gang

So over the last little bit I have been super busy. But that’s not news to you.

I babysat the barn for my co trainer and manager of the barn I help train at. We managed to get a lot accomplished. We pressure washed the wash bay, realizing that it mostly needs new paint and that the pressure washer was just taking off the bulk of the crappy paint that was on there. Cleaned the bottom around the mats and made it look pretty nice. I got the rest of the buckets scrubbed and washed out. Managed to work with all the horses I wanted to. It was pretty hard working by myself when normally I have a helping hand. Chris did come out and was a great help with cleaning and helping me fix the sump pumps. Its hard to get help training with non horsie people because you don’t want them to get hurt.

We also managed to tie up the fallen barbed wire and pounded two new fence posts. Chris swept the whole barn. And my goddaughter and son came out to help brush some of the horses. I wanted to get Vik to ride but it was her first time seeing a horse and she was pretty scared so I didn’t push her. Hopefully next time.

Next on the busy list was getting prepped for one of my best friends weddings and Canada day celebrations. Every year I have friends at the cabin and they tent on the lawn and we drink and have fun and light of fire works. Well this time around we did all of that and I also got to be part of the wedding party!

Cutting the grass out at the beach was like wacking through a jungle! We hadn’t been out in 2 weeks so there was about 6-8” of grass growth. Besides the fact that one lawn mower wouldn’t start right away and then Kayla had a little incident with the mower and a rock. We managed to get all the laws cut in 4 hours, which also included kayla setting up two tents. Pretty productive for a day off.

The wedding was beautiful, it was a sunny hot day out and it was just amazing. Every little thing about the wedding was fine tuned to be exactly like the couple. There was a potato bar (super cool), Candy bar, and then bubbles and awesome entertainment.

I feel so bad not driving my car as much this summer L . besides the fact that something is messed up on the right rear side I have been having some minor smaller other issues, like my fuel line decided that it didn’t want to stay clamped anymore (thankfully it was just from the metal line to the filter). So new line and hoses were put on. Then for the past while I have been losing coolant, I was thinking ‘ohh crap, my head gasket it going, booooo’ but for the most part it’s turning out that my rad hose/heater hose is leaking. The clamp isn’t doing its job. Yay another easy fix. I still haven’t been driving it much, between carpooling to work, and borrowing the truck or suv to go out to ride. Next little while my goal is to drive it more! Also forgot to mention the fuel line issue cost me ¼ of a tank before I found the issue, fixed it the first time…. Went to drive it again and realized it came undone again.. then actually put the parts on. It was like watching money pour out of the car. Very sad to watch

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