Rescue Tales
Blackie & Red Journal Day Five
Monday Feb. 15 It’s some holiday today…let’s see, oh, yes, it’s President’s Day. The kids are off school. Too many four-day weekends if you ask me. This morning I noticed tiny red specks. Three or four of them, little drops of blood, in the iced-up snow at the gate where I drop one of the [...]
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Sunday Feb. 14 The Daily Routine, and a botched Valentine’s I awoke in a terrible state of anxiety over the horses. I had to see how they were. So without even a kiss to my husband or a “Happy Valentine’s Day,” I went straight outside. (Based on his reaction to that, I guess I “should [...]
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Saturday, 2/13/10 The horses greeted me with pricked ears and eager nickers this morning. I was thrilled. When I brought them out, even Blackie seemed a little more animated. My friend Amy helped me groom them. I told her how their owner had said they were “spoiled,” and joked that she and I were going [...]
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Friday, Feb. 12 I ran out to the quarantine pen as soon as I woke up. I know it was irrational, but I had to see them, to know they had survived the night. There they were, standing in their blankies beside the gate, waiting for me. Or, more precisely, for their food. I gave [...]
...read moreBlackie and Red: the rescued
“Red” and “Blackie” were rescued Thursday Feb. 11, by voluntary surrender to Fresh Start Horse Rescue. I applaud the people who had them for making what must have been a very difficult decision. This surrender was the result of numerous calls to the Sheriff’s Department by members of the community, and personal inquiry by Fresh [...]
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Angel in the Snow. Winnie in the snow. Chickens in the snow. The snow, the endless snow. The strangest things can happen on the Internet. Case in point: while throughout the last several weeks I had been innocently and doggedly shoveling paths to pens, corrals, feed shed, dog houses, my home and my car over [...]
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