Two right feet, windshield views, etc

Here's the view of the Bay from our patio at dawn:


And here's the poor kitten, slayed by a Ray of Death:


RIP, kitten. RIP.*

So I made the trek out to see Dixie and trim her feet today. I'm still mostly well, but last night I woke up coughing and spent the whole night half-awake, coughing once every 30 seconds. I feel like somebody punched me in the throat - but otherwise I'm good! No aches or fever or anything. Just the cough. I figured just a cough meant I can still trim, so that's what I did.

I only took pics of the right feet, because as it turned out it was Horse Ranch Tour Day at the local school and there were like 40 fourth graders (10-year-olds) running around. Dixie was pretty cool with it, but I figured two sets of pics was enough.

Front right:






I just didn't see much to do on the rears.



All four feet got tea tree oil cotton shoved in the stinky frog cracks. They all look so different! I think they still look good, but they're definitely not desert feet anymore. If I can just get out there and do like 15 miles on something hard and get that sole out...

Here's some random pics of the barn (ranch). I think that whatever we're first exposed to is our default normal, and the first place I boarded was like a little rundown kingdom, composed of individual fiefdoms that were maintained to various levels of repair and cleanliness. That's just "as it should be" in the back of my mind - not the kind of full-care barn where each horse has an equally nice, equally clean, equally bedded stall.

One of the nicer fiefdoms - white vinyl fence with a big Appendix-looking QH.


Stalls with attached pipe runs - some of the ones further down the row have solid plywood or plywood/mat walls, and everybody has a different tack shed of some kind.


This weekend, someone's moving their trailer out of the line of trailers on the right, so someone else gets to move from the "overflow" parking on the left to the "main" parking, and then I'll get to move my trailer (from a nettle patch in the emergency overflow area) to the spot on the left.


Huge pastures... where they supplement grass and alfalfa. :( Dixie's in a small pasture, but at least she gets grass hay!


*no cats were harmed in the making of this post