I am Precious and my horse's name is Pretty Boy. Those are our barn names. That is what we get called on an everyday basis. I am a Paint horse and my paper name is Skippers Precious. My Pretty Boy is a Red Roan Appaloosa horse who's paper name is Trouper. Anywho........I tell the house mouse about our life and what happens out here on the farm and in my big red barn so she can tell you. Well now you know so on with the stories.................

Saturday, February 9, 2008

Too late for Pre-Emergent weed killer

Pre emergent weed killer

Heard them talking about the weed crop growing. They said 'Too late to put out any pre-emergent weed killer this year'. And when I heard that I just had to snort out loud because it was so funny. I was thinking 'YOU THINK?!' there are weeds coming up everywhere since we had those days of summer weather back last month. There is some grass too. Beautiful green tender grass. HOORAY!!! In my yard I have weeds, grass, gophers and moles. Me being a horse and all I don't know for sure about the gophers and moles. What I mean to say is I don't know the difference between the two. There are trails of humped up dirt and there are mounds of dirt here and there all over the place so I know that there is something under the dirt I just don't know what to call it or them. But let's get back to growing grass. My horse and I have been trying to do our part by eating awhile here and then awhile there and we both seem to have our preferences as to what we will eat. Me I like young tender grass because it is so sweet. But my horse will eat anything and it doesn't even have to be green.

What we need is for the humans to get busy and put us some fertilizer out on our pasture. I wonder what kind they will use this year. They use three different kinds of fertilizer on different years. Sometimes it's liquid, then they will use chicken litter, and then sometimes some kind of dry white stuff. I think the dry stuff is powdered lime.

WHOA nelly!! That human girl came out to drag my pasture using her 4 wheeler and she just about made my horse nervous so I took him out to the front pasture. But then she was out there at the top end of my pasture which is close to that front pasture so I took my horse over there to the lower pasture. He is just going to have to get used to that human on that 4 wheeler because she is on it a lot. We both try to tell him that she is not going to run into us but he isn't quite sure about that just yet. We are up here getting us a drink of water while she is in the house getting herself some lunch.

3 comments:

grandmatexas said...

Check out Watsonranchorganics.com
I am trying to talk Donnie into their program, but need to brush up on info. I had found this site last year, but didn't pursue it.
I do know that when you put chicken litter on the ground, it creates the danger of nitrates running off into pond water and contaminating it. Not good.

grandmatexas said...

Correction - in the url for watson - don't put the s on organic

It is watsonranchorganic.com

house mouse said...

Well did you know that if that chicken litter is put out on a windy day and you have the windows in the main house open that you will come home to a chicken litter smelling house! Not good girlfriend not good. And it doesn't run off either it just has to wear off or you get used to it. LOL!!!