Can we say SURPRISED?!?!  So there I was feeling on one hand quite mopey and on the other quite repulsively self-centered (because I was moping) when Jim calls me and says “Shea!!! Get out here quick! Maddy is colicking!!!” and I’m like OMG! heartache! and race out the door.  Where I see a very […]

So here I am a couple of weeks after Ri’s death and still feeling pretty bummed (putting it very mildly). Right about now I would’ve started riding Ri around just for short jaunts in the pasture, beginning the process of bringing her back into condition after a long pregnancy.  And to make matters worse Lady […]

A few people have asked me how Bingley is doing now that he’s an orphaned foal.  I’m glad to say that he is doing well.  He took to the bucket feedings very fast but the best thing I did was turning Woodrow out with him.  Woodrow is just over a year old so still a baby […]

So by now I think most everybody knows that Riona colicked and died on Wednesday (Aug11).  I have not been able to update the blog and I’m in no mood to do a whole detail rich post in my normal style. Today, 4 days later, it is still very raw. Riona was a great mare and I’m so […]