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End of Daylight "Savings"
Means the horses get put indoors an hour earlier so as not to leave them out in the dark. Since they tell time by the sun anyway, they don't object. To them, it's the same time as ever. However, in the morning they may get restless unless we start going out earlier to feed and turn them out.
Sunny day today, with high temperature in the mid-50s F. We groomed all three horses and gave them their semi-annual dose of that controversial ivermectin stuff. In the fall, it is combined with praziquantel (a specific anti-tapeworm drug.) Had some trouble getting three doses of it, but after hunting around for a few days I found some at a farm store in our area. Many places are "out of stock" on it, presumably because the conspiracy theorists are taking it themselves. Unfortunately, if it poisons them they'll just come up with some other crazy theory.
We have had a dearth of our usual songbirds this summer. Presumably related to the drought, which continues apace. Some of the winter birds are starting to show up, and we are trying to keep water and food available to them.
I was sweeping leaves off the front and back decks and discovered that we were wrong about acorns. We assumed that there just weren't any this year because of the drought. That is wrong. There were lots of them, but they are micro-sized. I swept up a pile of them, most less than 1/8 inch in diameter, complete with the little caps and all. I don't imagine any of them are viable for germination, though.
Cold nights have reduced the impatiens and begonias that were left out to a bunch of droopy stems hanging out of their pots. Fortunately, I had brought in several of the best planters and pots and they are under timed fluorescents in the garage. With any luck, those will repopulate the other now empty planters. The remaining green tomatoes on their vines were frozen solid, but thawed today. Still firm enough to pick, so I chopped a bunch of them up and made a green tomato pie. That is pretty similar in taste and texture to rhubarb (or 'pie plant' as it is called in some areas.) We haven't cut into it yet, but I expect it to be reasonably successful. You add raisins or grapes to the chopped tomatoes, sweeten it all with brown sugar, spice it with lemon peel, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves, and bake away.
Long day, we're folding up. Met all the quotas on the fitbits, which is a bit unusual. Normally we miss one or two.
Sunny day today, with high temperature in the mid-50s F. We groomed all three horses and gave them their semi-annual dose of that controversial ivermectin stuff. In the fall, it is combined with praziquantel (a specific anti-tapeworm drug.) Had some trouble getting three doses of it, but after hunting around for a few days I found some at a farm store in our area. Many places are "out of stock" on it, presumably because the conspiracy theorists are taking it themselves. Unfortunately, if it poisons them they'll just come up with some other crazy theory.
We have had a dearth of our usual songbirds this summer. Presumably related to the drought, which continues apace. Some of the winter birds are starting to show up, and we are trying to keep water and food available to them.
I was sweeping leaves off the front and back decks and discovered that we were wrong about acorns. We assumed that there just weren't any this year because of the drought. That is wrong. There were lots of them, but they are micro-sized. I swept up a pile of them, most less than 1/8 inch in diameter, complete with the little caps and all. I don't imagine any of them are viable for germination, though.
Cold nights have reduced the impatiens and begonias that were left out to a bunch of droopy stems hanging out of their pots. Fortunately, I had brought in several of the best planters and pots and they are under timed fluorescents in the garage. With any luck, those will repopulate the other now empty planters. The remaining green tomatoes on their vines were frozen solid, but thawed today. Still firm enough to pick, so I chopped a bunch of them up and made a green tomato pie. That is pretty similar in taste and texture to rhubarb (or 'pie plant' as it is called in some areas.) We haven't cut into it yet, but I expect it to be reasonably successful. You add raisins or grapes to the chopped tomatoes, sweeten it all with brown sugar, spice it with lemon peel, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves, and bake away.
Long day, we're folding up. Met all the quotas on the fitbits, which is a bit unusual. Normally we miss one or two.
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Hate the time change, but agree the horses don't care.
We had far fewer acorns, if smaller ones, than some years, but that was because last year was a real drought as well.
Hoping that the "atmospheric rivers"; a phenomenon that I think my old sailor friends called the "pineapple express"; continues to drop rain on California.
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Yeah, we try to adjust our schedule to keep the horses in sync with sun time. For instance, on summer time when it stays dark in the morning, we have our own breakfast before feeding and turnout. On winter time, they get fed first and then we get breakfast. Now that I have a slow eater (all our horses are 26+ years old) they stay in their stalls while we have that late breakfast and go out after that. There are some complaints during the first couple of days of each switch, but overall it seems to work.
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