Today's project: blanket repair

We just had a great series of days with sun and temperatures in the 40s/50s, but the forecast for today is for steadily dropping temperatures - what better day to do a blanket repair? Actually, it's kind of a cozy project as I've got it spread over my lap while I stitch, slight aroma of equine wafting about the living room. I'm holding the top layer up with one hand while I sew with the other so I don't go through all of the layers and hit my jeans, which *has* happened before. :)

We just got back from a few days away visiting family for Thanksgiving, and I wasn't organized/prepared to convert from turnouts to blankets after our return yesterday. Consequently, Bestie is out today in her other  blanket, but no turnout because I forgot to bring the bigger one to the barn and the one she was wearing is a wee bit snug over a blanket. So I'm sewing away as I fully expect the one she has on today is going to be a mess and I'll need to swap out. I absolutely love this one: a) the tartan plaid looks so cute on her, and b) we bought it used from friends and it still looks new - after 8-plus years. It's made by Saratoga Horseworks, whose blankets when new honestly are out of my budget, but they do seem to be constructed to last. Quality is long remembered after price is forgotten, as our dear friend Jim J. loves to say (but would NEVER EVER EVER apply to anything having to do with horses!).

Dude the cat whisperer

Suddenly the barn kitties have started hanging out in Dude's stall in the evenings. A couple nights ago it was the black cat, and even when I shooed him out, he kept coming back into the stall. That was odd because normally they're fairly skittish. Last night two of the gray and white cats approached his door while he had his stall guard up and -photo opp but I didn't have the camera- he reached his nose down to them, so cute. This kitty tonight kept trading corners, first the right then the left side of the stall, all the while staring at the wall intently. Does Dude have a mouse family living in his wall? Maybe it's not his cat whispering powers or magnetic personality that are drawing the kitties in.