Shaken not stirred

Angie off early to the local flea market in Sontheim. I was feeling awful, no doubt kidney stones having been dislodged in quantity yesterday through the digging.

I am "passing" kidney stones virtually every day and 99% of the time I just see them but don't feel them at all. Managed to do a dog walk before collapsing on the sofa for the rest of the day.

Once back from the flea market, Angie did all the chores and even prepared the horses for bed before she set off in the evening for the local sports center for a wokout & sauna. All I had to do was open the gates and let the horses in.

Here they are munching at their "power food". They simply get sugar beet pulp soaked for a few hours in water. For Asyr (brown) and Sultan (grey) it's a treat, for Rosie (black) it's the only real way of getting her to eat the half liter of vegetable oil she has to take every day - she can't have any starch or sugar so not many options. She gets a special English manufactued sugar beet pulp without any mollasses. The others get local pulp which strangely has mollasses added back to it after the very efficient sugar extraction process at the factory. Sugar beet pulp, even that with added mollassesis an excellent feed for horses as I learnt from Edinburgh University Veterinary School.

For those curious, Sultan has his hay in a net to try and slow down his feeding speed, the others have theirs on the floor.. Asyr checks out every single blade of hay to check it is OK before slowly indulging in munching it. Rosie is like Sultan a bolter but much too impatient to pick it out of a net and causes chaos throwing it about.