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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** **********Disclaimer—This Is A Farm Post—Graphic Images To Follow********** I would have posted this last week….. …..but honestly…I was just too sad….. …..Claire is gone….. It was not a surprise….. It was planned…… But that doesn’t make it any easier….. I hate having to make “those” decisions…it’s above my pay-grade….. When I brought Claire home from Alabama…(about five years ago)…I knew she wasn’t doing well….. And after being lectured by my large animal veterinarian…

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*Claire’s Hooves*

*Claire’s Hooves*

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Another post about Claire-Bear and her hooves….. I wish all my posts could be positive….. I wish Claire would heal….. …..neither one of those wishes appear to be realistic….. But the good news is…Claire isn’t acting any worse for wear….. She just keeps plugging along….. One hoof in front of the other….. Claire is inadvertently living out her own twelve-step program….. One day at a time….. Montana (our blacksmith) was here again…(it’s a…

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***Vet’s Visit***

***Vet’s Visit***

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** An appointment with Doctor Stevie Wonder was made….. There were several things that needed to be done or checked….. Doctor Wonder pulled blood from Anja & Claire….. …..given Addy’s sudden death…it was suggested to me…and seemed prudent…to check both mare’s blood panels….. …..now…we await the results….. AND…we wanted Doctor W to evaluate Claire’s hind hoof “abscess”….. The good doctor had quite the potpourri of things to do during this appointment….. I’ve always marveled…

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—The Blacksmith Visit—

—The Blacksmith Visit—

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Montana (our Blacksmith) came out recently…to trim Claire’s & Anja’s hooves….. He trimmed Anja’s hooves without any issues….. We put Claire in the shoeing stock…dosed her with some sub-lingual Dormosedan/happy-gel…(there are days I want some of that blue-goo)….. *****(Dormosedan Defined)***** We cranked up the newly-lubricated and un-frozen Come-Along….. …..by that time…Claire was so relaxed that she didn’t mind the big dog collars around her fetlocks…with the come-along cranking up her feet….. …..Claire leaned…

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~~~POLLEN & Springtime~~~

~~~POLLEN & Springtime~~~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** POLLEN!—It’s great for bees….. …..but not so great for a number of my friends….. My family’s lucky…pollen doesn’t affect us…if it does…it’s not noticeable….. …..others aren’t so lucky….. Red eyes…runny noses…itchies…& sneezing….. I know when it’s happening…because the oak tree’s are so thick with it…my red truck looks orange….. …..a simple windshield wiper wash…just leaves gooey/yellow/pasty ruts….. …..I have a bottle of Windex in my truck…along with a windshield scraper…for all the pollen-putty……..

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~~~Mark Your Calendars~~~

~~~Mark Your Calendars~~~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** I had forgotten to mention….. …..with my older daughter’s recent fence repairs….. Claire has been put into the same pasture with Brave…once again….. …..for obvious reasons….. If you count a mare’s months of gestation on your fingers and toes….. …..you’ll come up with about eleven months (give or take)….. …..and it’s that “give or take” and wondering when the baby will actually arrive…that makes me loose my stomach lining and pull out my…

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I’ve Put Off Writing This Post

I’ve Put Off Writing This Post

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I haven’t wanted to write this post….. I’ve delayed and avoided it….. …..but we finally got back all the test results….. *****Well…Here Goes…Disclaimer…This Is A Farm Post…There’s Life And There’s Death That Happen On A Farm***** …..For some unknown reason………….Finley died suddenly….. I’ll include copies of the bloodwork and tests we got back….. But none of them were helpful…or informative…they were a waste of time/paper/& money….. My older daughter and I were with Finley…consoling him…while he died…it was an ugly…agonizing…protracted…

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*It’s Mani~~Pedi Time*

*It’s Mani~~Pedi Time*

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Not only was it Mani-Pedi time…but we were also over-due for hoof trims….. On the plus-side Claire was the best I’d ever witnessed her at picking up her feet for our blacksmith Montana….. Claire’s not fractious…or vicious…or mean in her dissent….. …..she’s just a pro at locking her leg joints and turning them into cement-support pillars….. She totally refuses to lift her feet….. Perhaps her compliance this time…might have been because the lock…

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***Deep In the Heat***

***Deep In the Heat***

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** I just came in from fly-spraying and bug-treating the horses….. This is the time of year that I find so frustrating….. …..forget about me…it’s got to be worse for the horses going through this….. …..they get rained on…they get to live in a steam-room 24/7…the heat and humidity is incredible….. …..and let’s not even talk about the electrical lightening storms that whip through like clockwork….. Over the years I’ve tried so many different…

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+++++++The Itchies+++++++

+++++++The Itchies+++++++

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Summer humidity is here in grande/soggy fashion….. There’s a green hue to the air because of all of the suspended mold….. Inhalations can be a challenge…..it’s more like gargling algae….. …..(something tells me that Florida’s Board of Tourism wouldn’t want me as their spokesperson)….. But with the thick/wet/hot air comes the sweating….. I was told my Grandmother would say….. —–Horses Sweat…..Men Perspire…..and Women Glisten—– …..(I must be a horse then)….. …..and with the…

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