As usual, a week fly's by and it's either complete chaos or just same old, same old. This week has been pretty busy as the rains have let up. We are mowing every chance we get during the cool mornings and evenings then staying shut up in the house with the a/c during the heat of the day. Summer has arrived. Temps are up in the 90's and will climb to the 100's probably in the next week or so. Thank heavens for one thing - the mosquitos will die!

The vet was here Monday and he gelded Fire and Midnight. Ed took the day off so he could be here as well and get Fire's hooves trimmed while he was sedated. We were both out there the whole time and it was really interesting. The vet was wonderful and really took his time to get the boys comfortable before giving the shots to knock them out. Then we just waited and talked calmly to them for a few minutes before, WHAM, they sunk to the ground. Midnight did way better on his landed and just kind of plopped down. Fire? Well both men tried to lay him down but ended up running with him as he kind of rolled a few times - he just fights everything. I sat at their heads holding the upper leg for the vet and Ed got to work. Within about 15 minutes they started raising their head and then were up and walking. We left them in the corral with Smoke for about an hour to watch their bleeding and walking abilities. After that, we turned them out into the good pasture with all the others and they trotted off.

We put Cinnamon and her two kids out back with all the others and, amazingly, it couldn't have gone better - they're all getting along great. So you know what that means, yup, Moo's back in her front pasture. We led her out there the other day and then shoo'ed Sparky in with her. I think she's happy to be back in there.