Countdown to the Red eye. T- minus 31 hours!!

Yesterday was my day off!! I did a little bit of packing in the morning, but the rest of the day was spent with my cousin Leanne. She took me to Calgary tower!!! I got a lot of great pictures. ( Ill put them up when I get home and have highspeed and dont have to worry about it taking forever.) We also went to Lammles where I bought a new western chiseled leather with concho cell phone case. I also bought a new shirt. Wrangler shirts were 10$ off :) ( Thats my justification for buying)! haha.

We also went to IKEA. Oh my. You always see those commercials " START THE CAR....START THE CARRRRRR...START THE CAR!!!!" heheheh Well Leanne took me there too. IT's HUGE. GIGANTIC! and it has so many beautiful things! Rooms "set up" to provide you with an idea of how to use a space etc. Well I was going through saying " I want this bedroom with that kitchen and this here bathroom, and I want this living room." hahah IT WAS AWESOME! I bought these 2 little dog bums! You place them on a hook, like you were to hang a picture. It holds things! :) One is pink and the other lime green! Ill take a picture. You cant appreciate them until you see what they look like!

So, tonight my evening consists of packing, doing laundry, packing the laundry, and...then thats it. Tomorrow being my last day, I've been tasked with assisting on FOURTEEN floats!!! HO-LY DYNA. That is pretty much the whole day right there! Should see something interesting, unless its all routine.

This morning was pretty low key. A couple of appointments. At lunch, the entire clinic went down to a chineese food buffet for the small animal tech's going away party. Afterwards, her and I went across to the "boot hill gallery". A beautiful western everything store. The owner, is a fantastic western pencil artist. So I bought 3 of his prints. You can check them out at http://berniebrown.com/web/desktopdefault.aspx

I bought: Achievement day, boys will be boys ( both on the mini reproductions page) and cream of the crop ( farm/ranch prints).

ACTUALLY, just as a point of interest, remember how two weekends ago I went processing cattle? well THAT rancher and Mr Bernie Brown own cattle together, so I was working on some of his cows that day!

After lunch I went on the road with one of the practice owners. We went out to do reproductive work on a bunch of mares at this HUUUGE thoroughbred farm. AND! This farm and Meridian farms are on the same property. Meridian is a standardbred farm owned by two brothers. One brother runs half the show on PEI, while the other brother runs the show out here! Back at christmas when I was on the road with one of the vets from charlottetown, we stopped off at Meridian, and one of the guys there said that if I got a chance while I was out here, to go out and say hello to a guy by the name of Terry. So, that's exactly what I did. Walked into the barn, introduced myself and we chatted for about 15-20 mins before I went back to help with the Thoroughbreds. AMAZING place.

The repro work that was being done on these mares involed ultrasounding their ovaries to detect follicle size. This information helps the farm manager determine when to breed these females.
We also placed two transmitters!! VERY COOL! Its sewn onto the skin adjacent to the mares vulva so that when she starts foaling, the magnet of the transmitter " breaks" and sets off an alarm ( the farm managers phone). So if she were to foal in the middle of the night, he can go out and help her to foal. This farm manager in particular swears by them, and rightfully so if you have as much money put into a horse like some of the ranches down here do.

Anyway, laundry just finished getting washed. Once it's dry, ill get to pack them! In the mean time, I'm going to go and make some dinner.

See you all ( or some of you) on Saturday :)