Daytime Drunk

Last Saturday, Joe and I got up reasonably early-like 8 or 8:30 and went to some yard sales. I wasn't looking for much in particular but if something caught my eye or I found a book case to replace the milkcrates in my room, that would be okay too. We traveled around Carlisle and Newville, even going as far as Mt. Holly Springs. We ultimately didn't buy much but had a good time. Afterwards, I convinced Joe that we should have lunch at the Mexican place because that's what I wanted, I was hungry and damnit, I wanted some margaritas.
Once there, Joe ordered a pitcher of frozen margaritas. Which I drank the majority of. And during this episode of daytime drunkeness, I planned our wedding. Well...the new plan for the wedding which essentially consists of finding a park, having it outdoors and soon. After leaving the resturant, we went home and slept for like five or six hours. That was nice too.
Waking up, I still figured-'Why not?' on the small immediate wedding plan. Some searching around located me little information about Carlisle parks but enough about getting a marriage license in Cumberland county. I looked online at dresses and asked a friend about a potential date-which was shot down. Since then, Joe and I have fought and I still haven't talked to my mother. We're at like one or two and half weeks since we last spoke excluding an email and a text message yesterday. Phones work both ways I figure. Essentially, this leaves me with being uncertain about where and how and when a wedding should be. I should have a serious discussion involving our fight from the other night and then use that as my motivation (or not) for investigating more on a serious wedding...

In other news, Tracy decided to cut out a week early for maternity leave. Who could blame her? So we all ran around a little filling in. Friday was a super busy day for me. When I stepped out of the shower at 6:30am, my phone informed me that I had a voice mail waiting. Thanks phone. (I was on call Thursday night.) So I found out that forty minutes earlier someone had called me with a prolasped uterus-a real emergency. And I called him back and hustled out to his farm. Luckily, he had been able to replace it on his own. Anyway, that just set in motion one of the busiest days I've had in a long time. After that, I started my morning appointment-rabies vaccination and coggins tests on about twent draft horses. For the most part, this went well though truely did take all morning. Then I hustled up to Holly Pike for a full schedule of appointments which were primarily rechecks, skin disease and suture removals with some cats thrown in for variety. The first kitten had a broken leg and was euthanized followed by the second cat with what I now speculate to be a huge abscess that I am exploring and opening on Monday. Once home and again on call, I received not one but two calls about the same dog convincing the owner to wait till her appointment tomorrow. Then there was a phone call about a horse with a hoof abscess who I went out to see. I was unable to get the horse shoe off but luckily the farrier was around and easily removed it. He even commented that it was tight. I finally got to sit down at about 10:30.
Yesterday, Joe and I went to go look at a pony cart I found on CraigsList. It became very clear to me when I put in the address into Yahoo! Maps that it was a very small world. The cart was actually at a vet clinic-a vet clinic at which someone I had previously met before worked at-previously met before and knew her husband (also a vet) pretty well. We got there, bought the cart and were invited on a tour of the beautiful clinic.
That night, we went down to the barn with the cart. It is in really rough shape but we decided that it would be better to have Nell try it out before repairing it than repairing it only for her to break it suddenly. Joe tried line driving her first and quickly realized all my frustration with her inability to turn right and inabilty to stop without looking at me. We dragged the cart around behind her before hitching her and leading her around. She did reasonably well. You should have seen Nell's face though when Joe got in the cart! Horrified! But being the good pony she is, Nell just trooped on.
We'll hitch her again tonight. I'm hoping to have Nell ready for a show in August in Western PA. BF said I could borrow his horse trailer so that will be nice. I got the show bill and performance is limited to driving classes so Cody won't be going. I don't see the point in bringing him because he is horribly underweight and has a leg that turns out. He just isn't in any condition to be a halter horse. We have been working him on obstacle and I was going to have him ready to jump at this show but no such luck. Nell can do halter (maybe) and drive too. There is still a lot of things that I need to finish putting Nell together for a show. This list includes:  a hitch for the car, overcheck and cavisson for the harness, clippers, whitening shampoo, show sheen, hoof polish, baby powder, hair gel and probably a thousand other things I haven't quite remembered yet. And show halter if I plan on putting her in halter.
Anyway, we'll see how Nell is doing in a couple of weeks. And I should ask Joe how long he thinks it will take him to refinish the cart. The show entry deadline is July 29th, mine is like the 15th for deciding. And I need to make sure I can borrow the horsetrailer and am not oncall that weekend too.