Come From Away

I spent a bunch of time this week-end doing laundry. It’s nice to know that it was time well spent and all our clothes are “clean and comfy” now.

The road is paved all the way to the end of Pantings Road (where the Pantings live and where Pantings Garage is). I drove down to the shore there yesterday. Here is your “30 second break”

Oopsie steps on a nail. She was running around with Sophie and all of a sudden we see her limping. K went out to check on her and finds a huge nail sticking out of the sole of her hoof. She pulls it out, obviously. Blood starts streaming out of the hole at an alarming rate and she comes running into the house to phone the vet. I was on my way out, so I run to the post office with the days orders and rush back expecting to see a horse lying on the ground. . .

When I returned, everything was fine. The vet told her to stick her finger in the wound and hold it there for five minutes. Yuck! Anyway, this did stop the bleeding and Oopsie was fine. There was a huge puddle of blood.

A week later (yesterday) Oopsie is limping. She has an infection in her hoof. Quelle surprise. She now has to wear a horsey band-aid that has to be changed every two days or so. She’ll have to soak her foot in epsom salts also… She’s lying down in the pictures because it’s nap time, not because she is having any trouble walking.

Below are pictures of Sophie. She’s such a crazy little thing. She being really pushy for attention.

We had some trouble with the “rig” (everything that moves is called a “rig” out here). There were some cooling pipes that run to heat the back of the van and they rusted out. Apparently, it was a huge job to change them and the van spent the whole day at the garage.

I had some time to kill, so I took a walk down the road to sit in a quiet corner of that famous Scottish restaurant with the giant yellow “M” out in front. Along the way, I took a few pictures:

And a short video:

Well, the snow finally stopped, but the wind is still howling. The horses had a great time prancing around and rolling in it. It was fun to see them playing. It’s hard to believe that there was no snow on the ground yesterday.

This is the backyard. The noise you are hearing is Oopsie sniffing the camera. She appears briefly at the end.

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Actually, it’s the opposite of hell… There must be a foot (30 cm) of snow on the ground outside. I had to shovel a path away from the house for the pig and dogs to go out to pee this morning. The horses are very unimpressed by all the snow and were in a right cranky mood this morning. I’m not so happy about it myself

This is supposed to be Bunny Day not Giftmas!

Sophie and Oopsie (the horses) were having a very spectacular romp today with lots of bucking, snorting, and running around the paddock. I went outside to film them and they stopped and watched me…

The chickens, who get lots of table scraps tossed out for them, all ran over in the hopes that this was what I was doing outside. So I filmed them instead. This is what it is like to have completely tame chickens:

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Appleby, the “blue” (grey) bird that arrives first is the most tame these days and therefore the most spoiled. Strippy, his brother arrives soon after in the hopes of also getting a treat. They are both quickly followed by Alowishus. . .

Here are some stills of the 3 brothers:

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