Connie Bennett
Well-known member
I stayed out of my county tractor supply all last week because the Tennessee walking horse national celebration was on. That is the culmination of a season’s worth of showing and annually draws a couple thousand people with their horses, their big duallys, and their lavish living quarter horse trailers to town.
My county’s tractor supply has a very small parking lot that should never have been allowed, and it rolls downhill out onto the main highway. I’m sure you all get the picture. There have been buggies that have lost contact with their human and rolled out onto the street. I did not want to be any part of that parking lot hub bub last week so I let my Feed rundown.
That means today I came home with nearly all of it. 250 pounds of horse feed, a large bag of TOTW for the dogs, a couple quarts of oil for the Saturn, a 4-way hose splitter for my outdoor spigot so I can hook up three water hoses.
The tractor supply in the next county over has the calf manna I need for my elderly fella. It tisses me off that I couldn’t get everything at once today. I will have to go to the other TSC in the next couple of days and buy them out of their calf Manna which is (3) 50 pound bags. 3 bags will last me several months I case I need to find a new supplier.
Why on earth would I need a 4- way water hose splitter. Because I have rented the far west 9-1/2 acre pasture to the lady who owns the Arabian that has been my Dutch Warmblood’s companion for two years. She, the other border, and the renters in both farm houses were told they all had less than four weeks to get out. She had been there five years, the others around 14 years.
they were all on a 63 acre farm/ex-horse training facility. Ethics and honesty goes out the window when a boatload money is involved. Developments are going in on both sides of this farm, so people had to uproot their lives “yesterday “ for what they think is a development. I know it’s not a data center because my county has already put a moratorium on them.
Anyway, she had nowhere affordable within a decent driving distance to move her other two — A Mustang she got out of a bad & very ignorant situation and the cutest cheek-pinching white donkey she got out of a different bad situation.
There is no water over there, so we ran 300 feet of 1” water hose from my barn, down the hill to a 150 gallon tub for her two. It’s in full shade so stays very cool. It’s a great pasture as an addition, but difficult as a stand-alone. Still have a few things to work out before the ice flies, which we will somehow.
No, they can’t come over here because she would then have to pay full board, plus I don’t have the barn space anymore.
I brought lunch home from Captain D’s (I LOVE their Cole slaw) and will be a beached whale until it’s time to feed my horses their supper.
My county’s tractor supply has a very small parking lot that should never have been allowed, and it rolls downhill out onto the main highway. I’m sure you all get the picture. There have been buggies that have lost contact with their human and rolled out onto the street. I did not want to be any part of that parking lot hub bub last week so I let my Feed rundown.
That means today I came home with nearly all of it. 250 pounds of horse feed, a large bag of TOTW for the dogs, a couple quarts of oil for the Saturn, a 4-way hose splitter for my outdoor spigot so I can hook up three water hoses.
The tractor supply in the next county over has the calf manna I need for my elderly fella. It tisses me off that I couldn’t get everything at once today. I will have to go to the other TSC in the next couple of days and buy them out of their calf Manna which is (3) 50 pound bags. 3 bags will last me several months I case I need to find a new supplier.
Why on earth would I need a 4- way water hose splitter. Because I have rented the far west 9-1/2 acre pasture to the lady who owns the Arabian that has been my Dutch Warmblood’s companion for two years. She, the other border, and the renters in both farm houses were told they all had less than four weeks to get out. She had been there five years, the others around 14 years.
they were all on a 63 acre farm/ex-horse training facility. Ethics and honesty goes out the window when a boatload money is involved. Developments are going in on both sides of this farm, so people had to uproot their lives “yesterday “ for what they think is a development. I know it’s not a data center because my county has already put a moratorium on them.
Anyway, she had nowhere affordable within a decent driving distance to move her other two — A Mustang she got out of a bad & very ignorant situation and the cutest cheek-pinching white donkey she got out of a different bad situation.
There is no water over there, so we ran 300 feet of 1” water hose from my barn, down the hill to a 150 gallon tub for her two. It’s in full shade so stays very cool. It’s a great pasture as an addition, but difficult as a stand-alone. Still have a few things to work out before the ice flies, which we will somehow.
No, they can’t come over here because she would then have to pay full board, plus I don’t have the barn space anymore.
I brought lunch home from Captain D’s (I LOVE their Cole slaw) and will be a beached whale until it’s time to feed my horses their supper.
