{"id":10303,"date":"2024-03-04T18:40:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T23:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10303"},"modified":"2024-03-04T18:40:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T23:40:01","slug":"we-had-an-excellent-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/03\/04\/we-had-an-excellent-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"We had an excellent weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found a horse for our horse-loving granddaughter, Ava, through a friend of ours. Yes, Ava had her POA pony, Whinny, but Whinny has Cushing’s disease, which is kind of related to diabetes. Only it causes horses to often get sore-footed, as in foundering. Unfortunately, even with medication and a special diet, Ava hasn’t been able to do more with Whinny than care for her and be led around, bareback. And Ava is taking lessons and would really like a horse she could ride at home. So, on Sunday, my son, Bill, and his family (except grandson, Mason, who is now the IT guy at church and needed to be there to do their video) came to our place. We had a nice visit then went to our friend’s farm to meet Ghost. He is a pretty Cremello with blue eyes, standing about 15 hands high. Ava got to brush him then they saddled him up and she took him for a trial ride. Unfortunately, it was a windy, cold, rainy day and she wasn’t able to ride much before freezing. (No gloves and it was raining.) But she decided she and Ghost would make a good team. The stable where she takes riding lessons requires a Coggins test on all horses. So, the vet came to our friend’s place and drew blood. As soon as the tests (Bill also wanted a Cushing’s test \u2026 just in case) are back negative, they’ll come pick him up. I hope this works out well for the whole family.<\/p>\n

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Ava on her first ride, on her new horse, Ghost.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Also, while they were here, David came over to our house, bringing Delilah and Melanie. I haven’t seen Melanie for several weeks because I can’t do their stairs (except for emergencies, obviously!) and I was sure tickled to be able to hold her for a while. Such an adorable baby! She’s so happy and isn’t a bit strange with folks she doesn’t know well.<\/p>\n

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I got to play with Melanie this Sunday! How adorable!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We had to laugh today though \u2014 while I was playing with Melanie, Ava and Delilah were raiding my seeds. And, today, Will found Delilah’s stash of bean seeds. On the stairs going to the upstairs bedrooms! Will laughed, saying she was setting a trap for him. They were big, round beans and if he’d have stepped on them\u2026 Whew! I’ll pick them up and stick them away for her. She’ll sure have fun planting her own beans, come spring.<\/p>\n

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Delilah couldn’t resist the bean seeds in the Pole Bean Party Mix! Hmm \u2026 I wonder who she’s taking after.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

— Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I found a horse for our horse-loving granddaughter, Ava, through a friend of ours. Yes, Ava had her POA pony, Whinny, but Whinny has Cushing’s disease, which is kind of related to diabetes. Only it causes horses to often get sore-footed, as in foundering. Unfortunately, even with medication and a special diet, Ava hasn’t been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,24,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10307,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303\/revisions\/10307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}