Autumnal? Nah...
Sep. 27th, 2008 06:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoGary and his Bear Creek group were performing at the Pioneer Festival over in Boone County, so I was on full animal duty. That's OK because I need to watch Tess anyway. She seems to be recovering well from her little corn removal on Wednesday, but still behaving a bit oddly. In fact, Gary got panicky yesterday and called John, who drove all the way here to check her. She was all right, though. He helped change the pad on her foot and reassured Gary about it.
We do occasionally catch her lying down in the pasture or the round pen. The thing that frightened him was that she didn't get up, even when he went in and tried to move her. Usually she scrambles to her feet as soon as she sees one of us. She has been favoring the foot obviously, but there is no fever or discharge, so I think it's fine and John agrees. Today I found her down when I went to check mid-morning, and she looked at me but didn't get up. When I came back at noon, though, she was up and vocal, right at the fence begging for treats. The rest of the day was pretty much normal.
Some trees are starting to turn colors, and a few oak leaves are falling already. Didn't get to the orchard today, but will want to go tomorrow, as they should be picking Empire this week. It has been clear and sunny, with some humidity that becomes obvious as the temperature drops in the evening. No sign of frost on the forecast yet. I probably need to go pick another pile of tomatoes and beans, but I forgot until it was already getting dark. Tomorrow.
Gasoline prices are now dropping, sometimes twice or three times in a week. And yet they are saying that in the mid-south stations have no fuel to sell at all. There are severe shortages. The excuse is supposedly the hurricane, but it sounds like mismanagement to me, deliberate or otherwise. Grocery prices, contrary to the normal seasonal trend, are rising for the most part. Except for the "loss leader" sale items, I feel as if I can't afford anything. We just got our statement of assessed valuation for next year's taxes, too. They held our property value steady, after reducing it last year. Our taxes are going up, though, even though no increase has been requested or approved, due to some mumbo-jumbo formula applied by the county. Meanwhile, the greedy financial people who brought this economic disaster upon us are busy vacationing in the Bahamas or something on their ill-gotten millions in severance dollars after they got released from their jobs because their corporations went belly up. I'm sorry, but you cannot convince me that unregulated capitalism is a good thing. It always turns out to be a rip off.
We do occasionally catch her lying down in the pasture or the round pen. The thing that frightened him was that she didn't get up, even when he went in and tried to move her. Usually she scrambles to her feet as soon as she sees one of us. She has been favoring the foot obviously, but there is no fever or discharge, so I think it's fine and John agrees. Today I found her down when I went to check mid-morning, and she looked at me but didn't get up. When I came back at noon, though, she was up and vocal, right at the fence begging for treats. The rest of the day was pretty much normal.
Some trees are starting to turn colors, and a few oak leaves are falling already. Didn't get to the orchard today, but will want to go tomorrow, as they should be picking Empire this week. It has been clear and sunny, with some humidity that becomes obvious as the temperature drops in the evening. No sign of frost on the forecast yet. I probably need to go pick another pile of tomatoes and beans, but I forgot until it was already getting dark. Tomorrow.
Gasoline prices are now dropping, sometimes twice or three times in a week. And yet they are saying that in the mid-south stations have no fuel to sell at all. There are severe shortages. The excuse is supposedly the hurricane, but it sounds like mismanagement to me, deliberate or otherwise. Grocery prices, contrary to the normal seasonal trend, are rising for the most part. Except for the "loss leader" sale items, I feel as if I can't afford anything. We just got our statement of assessed valuation for next year's taxes, too. They held our property value steady, after reducing it last year. Our taxes are going up, though, even though no increase has been requested or approved, due to some mumbo-jumbo formula applied by the county. Meanwhile, the greedy financial people who brought this economic disaster upon us are busy vacationing in the Bahamas or something on their ill-gotten millions in severance dollars after they got released from their jobs because their corporations went belly up. I'm sorry, but you cannot convince me that unregulated capitalism is a good thing. It always turns out to be a rip off.
