Smokin'

My mobile phone seems to have gone into meltdown again, I set my alarm so that I wouldn't be late for the farrier today and the flippin' thing didn't go off! Fortunately my Husband is working today and knew that I wanted to get up early and woke me with a cup of tea! ( Hah! I have the best husband).
Once at the yard, I fed Red and Mouse, and put Red out.
Then, due to unforeseen circumstances, I held, The Nutty mare, The Black mare, The Blonde horse, Mouse then the Mental horse! while they were either shod, or had their feet trimmed.All the horses are hot shod which involves heating the shoe and placing it on the hoof before putting it in a bucket of cold water to cool before hammering it onto the hoof, doesn't sound to good put like that but the horses don't care, it bothers us more as the smell of burning hoof is like burning hair on a bigger scale and having been a fire fighter for 10 years (I left in 2001 to join amb. service) it also brings back other unpleasant smell memories! By the time all these were done I was freezing my doodabs off! The Mental horses owner is on holiday in OZ, and when I was leading her out to the field after being shod she reared up! now I am quite used to rearing horses as on the odd occasion Red will think she is a stallion, but she goes up and comes down in just about the same place...... Mental horse on the other hand!! The less said the better suffice to say I will not be leading that thing anywhere else unless ...... well I was going to say hell freezes over, but at this time I am pretty sure its close to doing so!!
The Blonde bird came down whilst I was there, and we decided to go back to her house for a bite to eat and 3 cups of tea, as we were freezing as I mentioned before.
It was nice to catch up for a natter, we live very close to each other and send tons of text messages but that isn't the same as face to face natter.
I was supposed to be going to London tomorrow, and was quite looking forward to it, sorting out some things for my husbands ordination next year, but I have the beginnings of a chest infection! nooo!! I am coughing and can feel the strain in my lungs already, and I thought I had got away with it while all around me were coughing and throwing up! Doh! well we will just have to see how bad it gets.
When I got home the postman had been and in with all the junk was a letter from the Northern bird. It contained, amongst other things, a dvd of her daughter, the Northern chick, who is 4 years old, performing in her school Christmas production. I haven't watched it yet so I can't post about it, but thank you Hun, I am looking forward to seeing it.