a thousand hours has passed since I last wrote here. We have just had to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and keep moving. Its funny that life still goes on after every major catastrophe and you sort of just have to step back into the groove and move on.
Thank you to all of our friends who contacted us, it really was appreciated.
I guess you cant really dwell on these things; a had my sob on my way to work that day and Iam sure that Evan dealt with it too. The thing is I think that cut me up the most was Libby and her refusal to move away from the filly and her panic when the little one was taken away. Libby is a different girl today and has spent the day in the company of Trousers and Vera, up around the house, picking at all the lovely green pick that is now here.
We spent last night over at our Neighbours and had a very sumptuous meal of prawns and salad... washed down with a nice, crisp Sem. Sauv. Blanc... (or a Crownie if you are Evan or Leo!)
You wonder if the mares think about what happened? You wonder if they have a memory of the events. To see her yesterday, and to see Trousers when she lost her babe, I would of said definitely yes. However, Iam sure that horses and all animals in fact just move on.
Libby will go away to be served again in the next 8-10 days as Chris has said that there is nothing wrong with her.
In fact, the news that Chris brought us was good news, Chris gave Nanna the thumbs up to get served again as he thinks she is looking terrific! As this will be her last foal, it will be an important choice of father and looking at Billy, Canadian Silver is high on the list of choices.
All the boys had their shots when Chris visited, and he was particularly taken with Billy.
Sweetie has settled down into motherhood although Iam sure she still wonders where Jimmy came from!
We have moved all the mums and their boys into the "dry girls" paddock as it is now full of pick and the contours are full of water.
We have also moved the 3 yearling girlies into the centre paddock behind the house as it is full of greenstuff and its time that they had a bigger paddock to muck about in. We're not entirely happy about them being there as they are going through "that time" when they are getting big enough to be a little bit of a handful. Its amazing how they have grown up to become young horses, rather than babies as we have known them. I will get some photos of them over the weekend as the transformation has been incredible!
The boys, well, the boys are on a countdown to lose their balls! Tuesday, 8.00am Chris will be over to turn them into civilised geldings! Hah! What a good precurser to the Melbourne Cup? No? lol
The 3 young ladies (and I use that term loosly) - Sunny, Gracie and Joey are starting to put some meat on now that there is some yummy stuff on the ground. Joey has finally started to let down and relax ... its taken her about a month to start to relax. By the end of 3 months, she will be a different horse.
Susie is looking good and is eating up well and has a bit of a tum on her. She is due to be rescanned in another month or so.
So onward we go, back into the groove of life here at Massie Lodge. Life is pretty sensational you know, I know it is (as I dust the dirt off my shoulders and body and embrace another day).
Helen.
Thank you to all of our friends who contacted us, it really was appreciated.
I guess you cant really dwell on these things; a had my sob on my way to work that day and Iam sure that Evan dealt with it too. The thing is I think that cut me up the most was Libby and her refusal to move away from the filly and her panic when the little one was taken away. Libby is a different girl today and has spent the day in the company of Trousers and Vera, up around the house, picking at all the lovely green pick that is now here.
We spent last night over at our Neighbours and had a very sumptuous meal of prawns and salad... washed down with a nice, crisp Sem. Sauv. Blanc... (or a Crownie if you are Evan or Leo!)
You wonder if the mares think about what happened? You wonder if they have a memory of the events. To see her yesterday, and to see Trousers when she lost her babe, I would of said definitely yes. However, Iam sure that horses and all animals in fact just move on.
Libby will go away to be served again in the next 8-10 days as Chris has said that there is nothing wrong with her.
In fact, the news that Chris brought us was good news, Chris gave Nanna the thumbs up to get served again as he thinks she is looking terrific! As this will be her last foal, it will be an important choice of father and looking at Billy, Canadian Silver is high on the list of choices.
All the boys had their shots when Chris visited, and he was particularly taken with Billy.
Sweetie has settled down into motherhood although Iam sure she still wonders where Jimmy came from!
We have moved all the mums and their boys into the "dry girls" paddock as it is now full of pick and the contours are full of water.
We have also moved the 3 yearling girlies into the centre paddock behind the house as it is full of greenstuff and its time that they had a bigger paddock to muck about in. We're not entirely happy about them being there as they are going through "that time" when they are getting big enough to be a little bit of a handful. Its amazing how they have grown up to become young horses, rather than babies as we have known them. I will get some photos of them over the weekend as the transformation has been incredible!
The boys, well, the boys are on a countdown to lose their balls! Tuesday, 8.00am Chris will be over to turn them into civilised geldings! Hah! What a good precurser to the Melbourne Cup? No? lol
The 3 young ladies (and I use that term loosly) - Sunny, Gracie and Joey are starting to put some meat on now that there is some yummy stuff on the ground. Joey has finally started to let down and relax ... its taken her about a month to start to relax. By the end of 3 months, she will be a different horse.
Susie is looking good and is eating up well and has a bit of a tum on her. She is due to be rescanned in another month or so.
So onward we go, back into the groove of life here at Massie Lodge. Life is pretty sensational you know, I know it is (as I dust the dirt off my shoulders and body and embrace another day).
Helen.
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