How amazing is this gorgeous horse? :-)
How anyone can send such regal and smart animals off to slaughter for meat is beyond me.
That's like eating cats and dogs!
Say NO to horse slaughter!
Monday, January 9, 2012
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Under Leaky Gunmetal Skies
Today is all about melancholy.
I blame the weather:
I almost miss those mountains of white snow sparkling in the sun.
Almost.
We do get bits of respite, those are the days the dogs and I
manage to cough up enough energy to play for a bit.
Waiting for their friend Dante to arrive:
...and then it's back to this for the rest of the day:
...and this all night long:
In my next life I want to come back as my own dog.
****
It's raining today.
Vegas and I rebelled and went out for a Junk Lunch, I had
mozza sticks, french onion soup, black forest cake and coffee.
He had a cheeseburger, a poutine and coffee.
About 3500 calories, all combined.
It didn't help any.
Sigh.
Back to clean eating...
***
Come out, sunshine - I miss you!!
Love,
Blue Technodoll xxx
Sunday, January 1, 2012
the New Year :)
Yeah, I know - two months is a long time to be away from blogland...
No mojo = no posts and that's just how it has to be. Today I feel like sharing a few pics with you but I'm not promising a full return as I find *cough* facebook *cough* a more interesting place to hang out, so if any of you want to join me there just send me a message on gmail (my address is in my profile) and we'll take it from there, yes?
Cool! So! Onwards and upwards and in no particular order...
New Year's Eve at the Technofarm was a very quiet affair, just Vegas and I enjoying a little picnic in the living room and then a movie - neither of us like the pressure and fanfare of partying with loud drunk people so we made sure to hermit the evening away. It was lovely :-)
We did however celebrate Christmas day with my family, made the drive to my brother's place in harrowing weather - everyone thankfully made it unscathed - and oh, the laughs! the food! the noise! It was perfect.
A couple of weeks before the holidays the doggies got treated to an afternoon at the spa, well OK mommy and daddy got treated by not having wet, smelly, shedding dogs in the house - yey! Everyone fell in love with the goofballs, they made us proud by being super well-behaved. It was Maika's very first time being groomed elsewhere than at home and Dakotah's second time, so yeah I was relieved and happy!
On the rare nice days I try to take Jack out for a little exercise, those horses are so dang lazy it's unbelievable! I guess the grey weather affects everyone. Ah, sunshine, come baaack!
I don't think I blogged about this but a couple months ago we almost lost Jack to an impaction colic that lasted three days... The vet had to come on emergency calls three times in two days, he suffered tremendously through all sorts of complications and I truly thought he was going to die, it was horrible. However this boy has a very strong will to live, he's a fighter, we stayed by his side until he got better and the incident brought us closer together -
In April, this big old sweet girl named Gazelle is coming to spend the summer at our place, my friend would like to give her to us as they have too many horses... If all goes well with the other horses and if we can afford to feed an extra mouth next winter then she will stay - this girl needs some TLC (she has heaves) and I think she would be very happy here! She's over 20 years old and was pulled from a feed lot auction by my friend's daughter so not much history on her, however she is apparently very sweet, quiet, gentle and independant - so we'll see.
No mojo = no posts and that's just how it has to be. Today I feel like sharing a few pics with you but I'm not promising a full return as I find *cough* facebook *cough* a more interesting place to hang out, so if any of you want to join me there just send me a message on gmail (my address is in my profile) and we'll take it from there, yes?
Cool! So! Onwards and upwards and in no particular order...
New Year's Eve at the Technofarm was a very quiet affair, just Vegas and I enjoying a little picnic in the living room and then a movie - neither of us like the pressure and fanfare of partying with loud drunk people so we made sure to hermit the evening away. It was lovely :-)
We did however celebrate Christmas day with my family, made the drive to my brother's place in harrowing weather - everyone thankfully made it unscathed - and oh, the laughs! the food! the noise! It was perfect.
Us on the way there before the snow, ice and bad drivers wiped the smiles off our faces:
Back at home, the two fatheads held the fort (and the tree):
Oh yes, there were many "just because" moments too! :-D
A couple of weeks before the holidays the doggies got treated to an afternoon at the spa, well OK mommy and daddy got treated by not having wet, smelly, shedding dogs in the house - yey! Everyone fell in love with the goofballs, they made us proud by being super well-behaved. It was Maika's very first time being groomed elsewhere than at home and Dakotah's second time, so yeah I was relieved and happy!
They are still nice and fluffy and sweet-smelling today, isn't that nice!
The weather, on the other hand, isn't that nice...
alternating between ice-cold, blowing snow, hail, freezing rains
and warm melty weather before it freezes again :-/
On the rare nice days I try to take Jack out for a little exercise, those horses are so dang lazy it's unbelievable! I guess the grey weather affects everyone. Ah, sunshine, come baaack!
I don't think I blogged about this but a couple months ago we almost lost Jack to an impaction colic that lasted three days... The vet had to come on emergency calls three times in two days, he suffered tremendously through all sorts of complications and I truly thought he was going to die, it was horrible. However this boy has a very strong will to live, he's a fighter, we stayed by his side until he got better and the incident brought us closer together -
I love my old sweet boy :-)
In April, this big old sweet girl named Gazelle is coming to spend the summer at our place, my friend would like to give her to us as they have too many horses... If all goes well with the other horses and if we can afford to feed an extra mouth next winter then she will stay - this girl needs some TLC (she has heaves) and I think she would be very happy here! She's over 20 years old and was pulled from a feed lot auction by my friend's daughter so not much history on her, however she is apparently very sweet, quiet, gentle and independant - so we'll see.
Counting down the days!
And that, my friends, is about it for now...
Wishing you all a great start to this new calendar year - be kind to yourselves!
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