Teeth Floating Day & An Apology to Canadians

It was dental checkup day for Tweed and Epona. I know some people do this every year, but if everything is going well, I space mine out, unless they’re in training. 

The last time Tumbleweed was done was 2022. Even I was a little surprised three whole years had passed. But his teeth weren’t bad. 

Zip zip. It was done. 

Epona was different. She was like Tweed with the few sharp points, but she also had an itty bitty wolf tooth. 

She goes to training on Friday, three days from now. If they pulled it, she’d need at least 10 days to heal, which means no bit. It was my daughter’s decision and she decided to leave it for now. If it causes problems, she’ll call the trainer’s vet out. 

In fact, however, we don’t expect any problems and the decision to remove wolf teeth isn’t cut and dry, especially if they’re not affecting anything else. Here is an interesting article on wolf teeth and the decision to remove or not. 

After the vet left, I photographed the apple blossoms in front of the barn. 

I’ve shared photos of my teensy weensy Kwanzan Cherry tree before. It arrived last year, through the mail, as a stick in a box with a few leaves. Well, it survived and thrived and is probably 3 1/2 feet now. Woot woot!

But we had need of another, where an aspen died in front of our house, and I didn’t want to start with a stick. Last year I couldn’t find any in our city, but this year the day I called they had received TWO. I drove to the nursery as fast as I could and people were already standing around them. 

I asked if they were buying either tree and they didn’t commit. The owner was standing at my side and told me to choose one. 

It probably doesn’t look like it, but this is a 9’ tall Kwanzan Cherry. I was very excited to have found one! It was meant to be. 

Off the topic, but I know some of you are friends from Canada. 🍁 To you, I want to apologize for what is happening, basically, the rhetorical attack on your sovereignty. I find it disgusting, and the man doing it disgusting as well. It goes against everything I believe about my country. I am conservative and even “America First,” in that our government owes us something for our sacrifice. We don’t deserve failing schools, crumbling infrastructure, dangerous cities, and 20 year wars that cost us blood and treasure, but are doomed to fail. 

Nothing about those beliefs is compatible with threatening our ally and good friends in Canada or taking Greenland, by force if necessary. It isn’t compatible with the tariff war or any other bullying bullshit techniques. 

It doesn’t demonstrate strength, it demonstrates weakness, even lunacy. 

I hope you accept my apology, but if I were you, I wouldn’t. If I were you, I’d flip me off. 

Happy trails anyway!