Week at Tate's

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WHY ARE YOU IN MY HOUSE?"

 Walking out to the red cabin...Tucker was such a good boy!

 John thought this would be an interesting picture!

We spent the 3rd week of July at Tate's camp while they went to Maine and housesat and watched their dog Ebenezer.  Had a nice time.  Got a chance to get together with Mike, Carol and Martha.  Always fun to reminisce with Martha about when she was young at Craigie Lee.  We had a great Lobster dinner, Mike and Carol brought some organic beef, salads and a blueberry crumb pie.  Also great corn on the cob.  John was able to fish once and caught several perch.  The puppy was still pretty small so we really didn't dare let the 2 dogs play together much...ebon out, puppy in and vice versa!  Great weather, enjoyed sitting on the porch watching all the boats travel up and down the lake.  The sleeping porch was great for sleeping too.

Round bale

Well I ended up getting about 500 bales of hay total between what I got from my friend Diane and Zeke.  Ansel and Kacee are rotating pastures every 10 days or so but because the horseflies and deerflies have been so bad they don't want to leave the barn.  I end up feeding almost 2 bales per day.....so in order to not use up my supply of square bales I decided to try a round bale.  Of course my ex-farmer husband felt it wasn't a good idea.  "They'll waste it all"  "Also I don't have a feeder (yet) to eliminate them from standing on it, pooping on it etc.    I emailed my friend Shawn (Ansel's former owner) and got the name of this really nice farmer in Hampton New York.  We called and Molly and I drove over this morning.  He came right out and easily loaded the bale on my truck.  I was a little worried about having it fall off on the way home but he assured me it would be fine.  We arrived safely and John came out instructing us where to put it in the pasture.  Molly and I were able to roll it off and it didn't continue down the hill!  The horses haven't left it since!

Molly's home for the summer!

Molly got a single room!!!!  So happy for her!  No more crazy room-mates coming in at all hours of the night, day, whatever...privacy!  She found out today that she is in Lawson dorm and her parking assignment is right near this dorm.

Her job is going really well.  She's learned a lot and is so pleased to be making her own money.  Today was payday!  She's working Monday through Friday 7a-3p.  She had her meeting with her boss and was told they were very pleased, that she had only heard "good things".  Great experience and a foot in the door for after she graduates.

Next week we get to housesit for Tate's!  Looking forward to it,  love the new pooch,  it will be great experience for Tucker to meet another dog.  (If I see a snake, we will be coming home and bringing Ebenezer to our house!)

Our dish has died twice!  Tomorrow the DISH people are coming again....last time it was a faulty head on the receiver.

It's soooo hot tonight  Very muggy, Ansel was drenched in sweat today when I fed.  I hosed him down and he prefers to stay in the stall at Sue's.  We had a great ride last week to Krupp's in West Haven.  Ansel was perfect, we had a deer jump in front of us and he hardly startled at all.   Molly was thrilled, Kacee was very good also.  She carried a dressage whip and every time she thought about stopping she would give her a little pop on the butt and it worked!

Tucker is growing like a weed!  He's full of the devil lot's of the time then just crashes and sleeps.  So glad we got him!

We went kayaking with Carol and Leanne last Sunday.  We put in at Ross's dock in West Haven and headed north.  We immediately saw a bald eagle!  Had a great day, got sunburned, ended up seeing 2 adult eagles and an immature and their nest in a pine tree.  Beautiful, and huge creatures!

Had my first lettuce from the garden, a few radishes, peas.  My beans are blossoming, the cucumbers and squash are blossoming.  Also had a few cherry tomatoes.