Plants and getting hip checked by a horse

[athenaltena]

I've been doing various projects since we got back. For the sake of not putting this off longer I'll just list them:

• Coleus plant I had at Suffolk has grown about half a foot since we left on vacation, need to put it in bigger pot sometime soon.
• Sweets peas have similarly shot up, twist-tied them onto trellises to help them catch onto them.
• Trying to start a couple of rosemary plant cuttings from our plant here (since they'd more or less be clones of the original) and a few have started to put out roots, so I'll probably plant them in about a week.
• Actually vacuumed the living room today, since chunks of Jesse-fur and sand from the beach have gathered and are probably irritating our allergies. Managed to terrify the cats with the vacuum, though it's partly their fault.
• Tried to put fly repellent on Pixel and Spirit yesterday, got hip-checked by Spirit and nearly reared at when I tried to get close to his face with it. For once Pixel cooperated, but Spirit did not like me doing that. In my haste to get out of striking range I forgot to latch the gate, and as a result the horses got out at 5 in the morning, but were caught by my mom. Mea culpa.

Said hip check by Spirit has left me pretty sore (what with him being about 5 times my size), but otherwise I'm doing okay. The weather is supposed to clear up tomorrow, which should be good after all of this rain.

And oddly, the woodpecker chicks in the tree in our backyard have stopped making noise. This is unusual since they had been going at it for days and hardly ever let up (seriously, it was like a car alarm). Hopefully they flew the coop rather than something eating them. *eyes Jesse suspiciously*

Comments

[kawakiisakazuki.livejournal.com]

My Rosemary has died... Probably because of the winter with -20°C and kerosene freezing weather. ;_;

[athenaltena.livejournal.com]

They're rather hard plants to keep, ours just happens to be hardy and be big enough that it shrugged off the weather, and we've had several previous ones that didn't do as well. Don't know what that says about me... >_>

[comingin2day.livejournal.com]

I remember my mom going after the horse with a broom after it left it's hoof print on my sisters butt. Me, I learned to be very close and learn to step fast, when they try to step on your toes. Otherwise, if you lean into the horse they can't get the foot up high enough to kick out. also, a rope across the nose with a halter on helps a bit if you have to yank it to get their attention. You BOSS, they HORSE.

I hope you put some tiger balm on your bruise and you feel right as rain soon.