I have absolutely nothing to say about today because absolutely nothing has happened (which is how I like my day to be, if I am honest).
I made a quick trip to town to get some essential supplies and to fill up my shop field with sheep.
A large boat was in – Viking Vela (998 passengers) – and the town was fairly busy with folk wandering around.
I came home and went straight into my shed to make more hand-felted sheep. This is a never-ending project. The weather was very muggy, windy and headachey. There was a threat of a thunderstorm coming our way but I think it has given up. I hope so.
Later, poo-picking, I checked on the boys who are all fine, so they tell me, but there is a very boggy bit at the top of their track which needs to be avoided. Tomorrow, I will keep them in their wee paddock while I make a diversionary track around it for them.
I don’t want to lose anyone in a bog. That would be awful. Ask Tiddles. It happened to him in 2016 – https://myshetland.co.uk/omg-tiddles/
A day I never want repeated.
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Omg I remember when we almost lost Tiddles (aka #freetiddles and #omgtiddles2016) – your description of him with “just two ears and two eyes” sticking out of the bog was terrifying! So glad you found him in time and he recovered
OMG, the Tiddles experience! That had to be terrifying. I got into quicksand once & that ,hopefully, will be it for my lifetime, but a horse in a bog! Rhett, my Labrador Retriever was hard enough to get out when we got caught, but a horse! And your back!
And you hit the nail on the head: placid days are the most wonderful days after there have been these adventures in our lifetimes. Everytime I hit a quiet day, I go down the list: No one is in Urgent Care; No one is in quicksand; No one has been cought in a riptide; No one has pneumonia, sepsis, etc. And I smile as I think of days when nothing happens.
I absolutely adore your blog.
I read it every day and it is a highpoint.
I have 3 horses on my property–my beautiful quarterhorse Annabelle who is recovering from a mild case of laminitis (green grass–ack!) Puzzle the black Lusitano (my daughter’s), and Nova, aka Pony a little mustang pony I am considering buying.
Thank you!