Day 43: The Family Goes to Canada

For the next eight days my family will be fishing in Canada while I stay home and take care of the house. As you can imagine, while staying home ‘alone’ for more than a week, not doing anything stupid is the primary focus. Although I wasn’t worried about getting hurt or having any problems with Reece finding new things to do with her was a bit of a problem since Hilary is the creative one when it comes to doing new things with Reece, and she would be gone. So, for the first 4 days while I was totally home alone with basically nothing but a phone call every now and then I did my best to get Reece solid in review stuff. I knew that the farrier would be coming on the 11^th to trim all of the horses feet so I decided a good focus would be Reece’s feet and having her really solid in moving away from me instead of running me over so even if she decided to be a boog about getting her feet done at least Greg would not turn into a sandwich. In those 5 days I was able to look at her from a little bit of a distance and she would turn her rear away from me and she would pick her front feet right up although she would still jerk her back feet once or twice before holding them still. Although we didn‘t do anything new she got better at what she had already learned and did great.