Today should prove to be a banner day. We start with an Ag person coming from the Extension Office of the University of Florida to look at stuff in our pasture and on our farm… Our appointment has been delayed a few times and it was hard to get her out here. She must be busy. I’m hoping she will be coerced into taking and testing soil samples. I’m good at coercing. Remember my self-proclaimed obnoxious-icity?…
I just did an Emily-Post-politness-thing at my old posting place at my older daughter’s suggestion. I went to my old site and invited anybody who was still over there, to come over here, because this is where I am now…………at my new site………..where-ever this is……………..or that was. So……………..I have done that. And now I’m here. And you’re there, and at the same time here. …………….I am welcoming you, in the best etiquette-ally appropriate…
Old meets new. Or maybe it’s old meets older. Farm-life and Sports Medicine. I swear there’s a correlation here (well, in my life anyway). This morning bright & early, I had the telephone right by my side. I was expecting a phone call from the United States Postal Service. I knew this was going to happen, because I was sent the up-date & tracking information for my order of chicks which was being processed and shipped from Missouri. …
Whimsy has returned. Whimsy is an Irish Wolfhound. Whimsy is Fey’s and Molly’s litter-mate. Their mom was Mimzy. I take breeding Wolfhounds seriously. I love the breed. I love it’s antiquity. I love the individual hound’s quirks. They are a quirk-filled breed. They are sensitive and stubborn. Lousy noses……………. great vision. But what sticks out for me is their intuitive caring. They are sympathetic and empathetic……..they can’t necessarily help in a situation…….but…
I just figured out how to down-load photos from the camera chippy-things. I’ve “crunched” over 3000 photos into my media library. ……………..see, I told you I was taking pictures…(I also killed another camera in Patrice’s bibs)-(I’m buying a water-proof/dust-proof one next). And guess what? I’ve jammed my computer… All I’m getting is that multi-colored pinwheel everywhere… Hence, no photos for this post… But my desktop page looks like an FBI Crime-Scene Photo-Board. This is a…
Nothing to report. Everyone appears to be still standing and breathing…. Isn’t that great! We are getting back some results on some tests from Becky’s necropsy. Poisoning………….yes. But what type……? It’s NOT from cattle feed mistakenly mixed with horse feed. It doesn’t appear to be nitrate poisoning, which would have been from fertilizers left on hay… Our vet did get a positive return that there was botulism in Becky’s manure AND the sampled compressed alfalfa hay that he sent…
We lost Annie, too. She was the last one surviving from that pasture. She died with the same symptoms, but I’m sure loneliness played a huge part in her death………….she was so bonded with Sonja. ~~~~~~~~~When we bought Sonja…………….Annie had to be part of the deal. She charged into that horse trailer and didn’t leave Sonja’s side the entire drive home~~~~~~~~ We’ve met more of our neighbors. Apparently, Annie had a lot of names……………..she seemed to have been a…
This is terribly hard to write about. So I won’t write much. In forty-eight hours, we lost five horses… Multiple tests are still pending… We don’t know why yet……………poisoning of some sort……somehow… R.I.P. Ruby R.I.P. Magick R.I.P. Sonja Violet And Her Son, Bennett—R.I.P. We are hoping there are no more… Please bare with our grief…………. Rest in peace, friends……….
Still doing battle with my little, pink camera…………………………… Yep, pink……………. ………….really, really pink……………. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My little pink camera irks me so… Grrrrrrrrrrrr……….. It’s just so perfect… And it flaunts it… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I could deal with a huge, cumbersome, galvanized-gray camera with stops and speeds and lens that require a pipe wrench to zoom in and zoom out. I would even rather have to drag around a tripod for a behemoth, manual camera-slug—–who does nothing by…
Things are a foot. My journaling-cathartic-doo-dah thing is evolving and up-grading. It is. I’ve agreed to it. And it’s happening…………… ………………as we speak… I think. It’s been explained to me……………several times, actually… I still don’t get it……………….but I’m good with it…. Yep. Totally… So, from what I understand, my blog will be on a new place, or is it at a new place? All of my…