On bizarrely warm days in March...

I get to start all my indoor seeds outside. Which seems odd and wrong, but enjoyable.
L. and H. healing mix up the soil blocking mixture.

All the little soil blocks planted with seeds.

So
They did get moved inside under the grow light. It is March after all.

Kenzie gets to do his favorite thing of napping in the sun. 


The pony gets washed!


Vienna is normally a very tidy pony, but during her worst days where she was laying down nearly continuously, it was difficult to keep her from lying in her own filth. It wasn't pleasant and I'm sure it bothered her. With the warm weather and her improvement it was a great day to clean her up a bit. 

The cat got to do her very favorite thing and go outside.


And Y. sat in the dry lot crocheting for a while to keep the poor lonely pony company. (We're working on that lonely bit.) Plus Vienna ended up with a hair scrunchy.


What I don't have a picture of is L.'s continuing efforts to train her own chicken army. L. has been profligate with the sunflower seeds to encourage the chickens to follow wherever she goes, which the chickens are happy to do because they love sunflower seeds. Well, all except Zoro the rooster. He is above such things.

All those chickens, whether they are an army or not, do lay a lot of eggs. We are swamped. This is just from the past two days. 


I leave for Arizona to visit my mom tomorrow night. J. will be home with the masses. I have no idea what blogging will look like while I am gone. 


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