Blimey It's Been Hectic

I have been working the elections manning the postal vote process, I had not quite anticipated that this would mean working until 1.15am this morning after a 6am start on Thursday to get stuff ready for the dentist.  Feeling really tired now after a busy day at the horse sales today.

Vet/dentist visit was good, he new his stuff, pointed out a lot of the same things that my EDT has mentioned before, had a good manner with the horses, talked to them lot and gave them some breaks before they started to get too anxious about it all.

Interesting thing was the different reaction from the horses, we decided to do Charlie Too first, he is not daft he had identified Charlie as a vet from about 10m away, even though he was disguised as a dentist, he is an intelligent pony though and saw through this disguise and promptly tried to leg it even thought he was tied up.  You could see Charlie Vet was thinking the visit wasn't going to go well.  After giving him the potentially worst pony to do first I was happy to let him carry on with the rest.  Three of the five were sedated which is an improvement over my usual dentist Jane, she likes them all sedated routinely.  Other big benefit was that he uses power tools but they are all rechargeable battery powered and don't need to run from the generator.  Jamie was the only one that needed the power tools, he was sedated after he showed Charlie Vet his barefoot front feet at eye level.

Max also was sedated for the last five minutes, up to that point he had been very good.  Charlie Vet agreed that he thought the drooling had probably come from a sting or bite as his lymph gland under the tongue was still a bit swollen.  Nothing major going on with teeth apart from a few sharp hooks.

All systems go for getting the work going again so that is good news.  I have taken the time off to do helpful things like buy myself some new breeches, jodhpur boots and to replace my missing hat.