{"id":16486,"date":"2013-06-21T18:04:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T23:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=16486"},"modified":"2013-12-08T23:54:27","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T04:54:27","slug":"oldbtb_99-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/?p=16486","title":{"rendered":"June On The Farm (Written By Roys)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is mid- June here in northern Arizona but even though June 15th<\/sup> was the \u201cofficial\u201d start of Arizona\u2019s monsoon season, it is still hot, dry, and windy with no rain in the foreseeable future..\u00a0 And while it has rained some in the southern part of the state, all of the locals around here, know that the rain doesn\u2019t start until the 4th<\/sup> of July Rodeo.\u00a0 The pastures still look good, especially early in the morning and late evening, when there is a softer light.\u00a0 I am watering every night but the wind just dries it right back out by noon the next day.\u00a0 Luckily the horses have been very good this year and have broken very few sprinklers.\u00a0 It is often amazing what keeps me happy.<\/font><\/p>\n


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Because it\u2019s hot, wouldn\u2019t you know the pump goes out on one of the Humboldt Water Company\u2019s two wells which promptly caused the pump on the other one to be overloaded and so not to be left out \u2013 it blew too.\u00a0 So for over a week we have little or no, mostly no, water.\u00a0 Now Humboldt Water probably serves less than 500 people and unfortunately for most of them that is the only water they had access to.\u00a0 I have a well so several times a day we would haul in large buckets of water to put in the back of the toilets so they could be flushed.\u00a0 What a pain, but I pity those that couldn\u2019t even do that.\u00a0 Then late last Thursday everything came back on line and I didn\u2019t know until I made my morning complaint call on Friday to find out the status, and they told me that it had been resolved on Thursday.\u00a0 I threw a fit and they called the head man and he had me back with water within a half hour.\u00a0 I am on a separate line from the rest of town because I am the only one on my road that doesn\u2019t use their own well for water.\u00a0 They had just forgotten to turn my line back on.\u00a0 Oh the joy of small town living!\u00a0 Best of all I could start using my evaporative cooler again.\u00a0 Most coolers just re-circulate the water but I have a fancy one that flushes the water out periodically and I didn\u2019t dare turn it on when there was no water to replace that that had drained.\u00a0 Of course last week was the hottest week of the summer so far.<\/font><\/p>\n


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The race horses finished off the 2013 spring season at Turf Paradise in a big way \u2013 well one of them did, anyway.\u00a0 Cash Receipt ran one more time since my last epistle and finished on the board. \u00a0 He didn\u2019t have a bad 2013 with one win and three seconds from six starts.\u00a0 Considering all his problems, I was happy.\u00a0 He is up here in the pasture, enjoying his time off.<\/font><\/p>\n


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FD Icy was claimed away from me but I claimed him back and he rewarded me with a big win in The Dwight Patterson Stakes for Arizona-breds at the end of April.\u00a0 It was a $35,000 stake and all of his connections were very happy, especially me!\u00a0 He too, is turned out for the summer with a win and a third from seven starts this year.\u00a0 It\u2019s an odd thing to say but I don\u2019t know what I will do with him next year.\u00a0 He couldn\u2019t beat $6500 open claimers but ended up winning the stake in pretty spectacular fashion.\u00a0 If I run him where he can win \u2013 I am sure he will be claimed and I really do want to keep him.<\/font><\/p>\n


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Barilla ended up the Turf Paradise season with a win and a third from three starts.\u00a0 She finished fourth at Arapahoe in Denver her first out and is entered back on Friday. \u00a0 They tell me she is training well so maybe we will get lucky.<\/font><\/p>\n


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I gave my borrowed horse Mr. Gary back when my group arrived for the summer.\u00a0 I also had some boarders for a while but they weren\u2019t here very long.\u00a0 One had really bad feet and promptly got an abscess.\u00a0 These are very painful for a horse and he was standing like he had a broken leg one morning.\u00a0 We soaked and bandaged and kept him by himself and it took two weeks for the darn thing to break.\u00a0 I called the owner and said if the horse was going to get abscesses when it was dry \u2013 I didn\u2019t think it was a good idea to leave him up here when the rainy season rolled around.\u00a0 Actually, I didn\u2019t want to be the one doing the soaking and all that goes with that and since the horse couldn\u2019t go out on the pasture there was just no point in having him here.\u00a0 She agreed and they took him home.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n


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I also took in two horses for a lady that wanted them to have a month of \u201csummer camp\u201d. \u00a0 One hadn\u2019t been here a week when she got the colic and had to be hauled in to the vet.\u00a0 Luckily the lady had just brought in a third horse that was to spend a week while the owner went to California on vacation the next day.\u00a0 Since she had the trailer, she loaded the sick one up and took her in to the vet.\u00a0 It was sand colic, which we get a lot of here in Arizona since there are few places with grass.\u00a0 Thank goodness I have pasture.\u00a0 She brought the horse back the next day and I assume had a good vacation even if it didn\u2019t begin well.<\/font><\/p>\n


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The vacation must have cost more than she planned as she not only took the one that just spent a week home, she hauled one of her others home also.\u00a0 She left me the one that had been sick and I put it in with Nae Doot so they could swish flies together.\u00a0 That worked out well but then summer camp was over and the horse left.\u00a0 Boarders can be a pain in the neck.\u00a0 It had been so long since I had any, I had forgotten how much trouble they can be. \u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n


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So now I just have my horses with me.\u00a0 I put Nae Doot in with Cash and Icy and they are all getting along pretty well.\u00a0 Nae Doot is kind of the odd man out even though I gave him the home pasture advantage.\u00a0 Cash and Icy are best buds and have been together since they were born.\u00a0 Nae Doot stands behind Icy and gets his face swished by Icy\u2019s tail so he is happy.\u00a0 Cash is the boss man though so Nae Doot stays out of his way.<\/font><\/p>\n


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After the irrigation men put in some new valves on the irrigation lines last month, they came back and propped up some of the fence posts.\u00a0 Like the lines, after 30 years, the fence posts had become the victims of erosion and some of the posts were not even in the ground anymore.\u00a0 Since the fence is pipe it would have been very hard and expensive to move the whole line so we just propped them up with some fancy rock and cement bases.\u00a0 It should hold until well after I am dead and gone.<\/font><\/p>\n


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Last on my list of news is I got a new\u2013to\u2013me, car.\u00a0 It is a Mini Cooper and what fun it is to drive.\u00a0 It\u2019s the first car, since my Dad\u2019s \u201964 GTO,\u00a0 that makes you want to go out and just take a drive.\u00a0 It\u2019s a 2008 with low mileage and so many bells and whistles that I will never figure them all out and is an \u201cS\u201d model so it is really peppy and goes way to fast.\u00a0 Thank you Icy for winning that stake race! \u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n


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Well, that\u2019s it for now.\u00a0 Prescott has its first and hopefully only wildfire this year.\u00a0 Started about noon on Tuesday and by Wed morning was up to over 5000 acres.\u00a0 Lots of homes in the way and I hope everyone and their animals are safe.\u00a0 Winds are expected to be bad today (Wed) so we have to hope for the best.\u00a0 I was going to offer to take in some refugee horses but they opened up the fairgrounds so there should be plenty of room. \u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n


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