Second Post of the Day
By chance, I got a text from Tim after going out to the barn yesterday. He'd sent me a picture of Eazy.
I started laughing when I saw it, laughter that was good for me, and told him that he now had a Zorse.
We texted for a while and I learned some sad news - Alice, the woman who had lived in the old farmhouse, had just passed away the day before. It was not unexpected (earlier this year her sister had found her comatose in the farmhouse and she was taken by ambulance to the hospital) but still I feel sad. I've known her so long, she came to my bridal shower!
Tim also shared that he did not think Sultanna was in foal. I asked if he would try again, and he told me that the stallion who had sired both her foals, Little Feller and Two Socks, had colicked and died shortly after he'd bred Sultanna. She was his last cover. So sad!
I did make it out to the barn for a second time that day. The horses were up in the nursery paddock staying cool in the loafing shed there.
I parked my car and decided to try something, something I had not planned to do. I called the horses up, just as I always had, by calling Abby's name and whistling.
What would happen? Would Sultanna remember that call? Would Hokey?
Sultanna reacted immediately.
Oh, my heart!
Stay 'tooned.
