april...blizzards

Neil's adventure of the day: a short haul over to AVS for a little physical and his spring shots. Dr. Leeth did them all at once, which I wasn't used to, but he said the immune system can really handle them all and it saves extra days of his neck being sore. Needless to say Neil was especially excited for the intranasal strangles...lots of lip curling. He was actually much better behaved than I expected. Felt bad for the vet standing out in the snow! Had a nice chat with him about vet schools in the South, though (he remembers when Southern Pines was all just...pine trees). It's pretty cool to actually get a vet up here who knows where Aiken is at all.

Hopefully his Coggins comes back before we head down to southern Maine for April! For anyone who cares how a Coggins test works, the HHMI has a virtual ELISA (that's enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to you) test which you can perform here if you are an immunology nerd like me. It doesn't work very well in Chrome. Anyway, I'm hoping baby black horse can do some dressage at Puckerbrush farm May 1st, on the way home from some very much looked-forward-to time with Caitlin prepping for the summer and a possible H test (not that I can find one anywhere in New England that works for me to attend, but hey).

Snow days are great days for bloggers. Unfortunately, I think this nth extra snow day will mean HHS seniors get to renegotiate the date of graduation and our makeup days...again. And as much as I love meetings with our interim superintendent, I'd much rather be sitting at home watching Colbert make fun of the governor and reading Best of Craigslist. Or, possibly, trying to convince Neil that he's an event horse.

It's really sad that I can still end posts with:

Stay warm! (even though it's April, and I know the snow is making you as depressed as it's making me)