Dropped down to the 20’s here. This morning inside the grain bin, I found a mouse frozen. I put it by the heater (a vain attempt, I know) But with the amount of rodents my barn cats kill, I had hoped I could at least save this one. No go- it had gotten down into the bin and unable to get out, it lost the battle.

Racer ripped his lower eyelid. I am not sure how he managed to do this, unless it was just from rubbing his head along his stall wall. I put some antibiotic ointment on it. The swelling has gone down tremendously but now the eye shows some major discharge. The ointment is safe to use in the eyes for dogs and cats. It say anything about horses.

I am running out of hay already with this drop in temperature. Finding hay this time of year is a nightmare, but we finally found 800 pound bales! OUCH! Going to have to leave one bale in the trailer and pull from there. No way can we get the trailer back to the barn right now, we would sink clear to our hubcaps!

New arrival here. She has been here 24 hours and only picks at her food. She is a drop dead beautiful tortiseshell I am calling Brooke. Her hunger strike has me worried, that and her overly portly and very tight stomach. I started her on wormer today, and gave her some mineral oil. So far nothing is moving. She is very loving and friendly even after shoving meds down her throat, though she did growl at me a few times.

Mike saw the specialist today. He doesn’t believe that Mike has prostate cancer, but is re-ordering the bloodwork just to be sure. Thinks it all boils down to the diabetes. I get so angry at times. When Mike came home, Iwent out to the truck and found a stash of candy in the center compartment. I wasn’t spying on him. I was looking for a book I left in the truck The Cat Master. I didn’t say anything to him- after all, what is the point?