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To Bamboo…..Or Not To Bamboo…..

To Bamboo…..Or Not To Bamboo…..

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* CLICK HERE***Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel*** Well…that’s the question….. We’ve started having people leaning over the front fence trying to feed and attract the horses to come closer….. In the past…..I was cool with that….. …..not so much anymore….. …..I’m sure you remember…..four years ago we lost so many (9) of our horses (our friends) to poisoning….. ~~~”The Final Report”, Blog-Post~~~ ~~~”It’s Not Over Yet”, Blog-Post~~~ We…

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~~~Anja’s New Doo~~~

~~~Anja’s New Doo~~~

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Norwegian Fjord Horses have specific coifs that are expected for their manes….. There are patterns on the internet that you can download and copy….. …..or you can just free-wheel it with a good pair of scissors….. We are the free-wheeling-kind-of-family….. …..but the first step in fixing Anja’s hairdo….. …..was to take it all off….. So while my younger daughter and I were treating Anja’s abscess….. …..I shaved her too-long mane off completely….. Norwegian Fjord horse people get real focused on…

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*****Anja Stays…..Poppy Goes*****

*****Anja Stays…..Poppy Goes*****

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As you already know…..I went on a nationwide search after my younger daughter lost her therapy horse (Sonja) to Botulism Type-B poisoning in the Spring of 2018… Poppy was the first potential replacement for my daughter… …..she was Amish bred and came from Kentucky… And then there was Anja who came from Minnesota…..and she’s just perfect for my child… Don’t get me wrong…..Poppy IS a GREAT horse……. …..she is younger than Anja……. …..she has more potential than Anja……. …..she is…

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~~~Anja~~~

~~~Anja~~~

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I haven’t written about the advent of Anja yet… Anja is now my younger daughter’s new horse. She’s a Norwegian Fjord horse. Just like my daughter’s previous therapy horse, Sonja (who died tragically from botulism poisoning in the Spring of 2018). *****Post-April 24, 2018: “Sad, Sad, Gut-Wrenching & Sad” Plus, Anja is also related to Sonja!              She really is!!! I “happened” upon Anja’s “For Sale” ad…….in a South Dakota newspaper……. …..(okay, I may have…

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When In Doubt…….Test Everything

When In Doubt…….Test Everything

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  The post’s title says it all. And this is what we are doing. “Things” are being Over-Night’d and FedEx’d and U.P.S.’d everywhere. Cultures and petri dishes take various amounts of time to percolate and crystalize and separate…………but we are keeping a lot of slurries of agar very, very busy. My older daughter says that agar smells like chicken soup.  She identified the smell in the expensive, botulism-anti-toxin plasma that my older daughter’s friend drove up to Ocala to pick…

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“Morning Has Broken” (Thank you—Cat Stevens)

“Morning Has Broken” (Thank you—Cat Stevens)

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  I love the mornings, when there’s no rushing, and it’s quiet.  Being a private part of a new day’s start.  Watching everything stretch and rub its eyes.   Even when I was little, I remember getting up before the rest of the family on weekends.  It was my private time with the world.  Just natural noises before the human world got going and made the quiet noises harder to hear. The birds and animals, of course, but the sounds…

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Riding Season Has Begun for Most People!—(Just Around the Corner for Me)

Riding Season Has Begun for Most People!—(Just Around the Corner for Me)

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The weather is cooling off, Yippee;  The weather is cooling off, Yippee;  The weather is cooling off, Yippee…………..well, just a little bit. It’s just another Florida-mantra we try fooling ourselves with………………maybe if we say it enough it will happen. I am hauling my younger daughter and her horse Sonja to a Hunter Pace this weekend!  We HAVE TO body-clip the old girl this evening and/or tomorrow morning to get her Norwegian Fjord horse’s Wooly Mammoth coat of fur off of…

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