I just found out that Mom posted pictures of Isis on the farm Web site. If you would like to see Isis and her full brother, Maattari, jumping, visit the Sirdar Foals page.
It’s hard for me to reconcile those photos with the mare who is in the hospital. It was only a month ago when she was taking jumps and having a ball.
My friend Kat suggested a song for Isis: Hole’s Heaven Tonight. Some of the lyrics seemed very appropriate. Here comes a sign in the form of a girl She’s the finest, sweetest thing in the world Oh, take you to Heaven tonight I feel the horses coming galloping In the summer’s end Take you…
It’s been a very long, muddy winter. And fall, and most of the previous summer too. I had a curious confluence of events that kept me feeling slightly overwhelmed. You know, that feeling where you are juggling everything but can not add one more ball to the mix without dropping everything. So I didn’t blog….
A person I greatly respect lost one of her old mares today. My friend sat up all night in the rain and the mud with her mare until the vet could arrive. Ultimately, there was nothing that could be done except make a very difficult decision… and let the mare go. I felt my heart…
I’ve posted here before about my mare, Isis (aka the Bay Wonder Mare or the Miracle Mare). On the evening of Friday, 12 June, Isis began to act strange. She lost her coordination and staggered about like a drunk person. She walked into walls in her stall. She was unaware of her surroundings. The worst…
Saturday the Knoxville News Sentinel posted an article about the City League sponsoring a competition in Knoxville featuring Grand Prix jumping taking place at the Civic Colliseum. The Knoxville Quickstars will be competing against teams from all over the place. It sounds great. Competitions rang from fences 2 feet to 5 feet high with timed…
Some excellent news this morning! The vet said that Isis will be evaluated tomorrow morning to see if she can come home. Yay! Her staples may also come out today or tomorrow. I dropped by this afternoon and interrupted Isis’ nap. She was so sleepy. She had plenty of dry hay to eat and two…