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Here I am BROKE, waiting for that $132.00 check from Dogtime, the yahoo spammers which still hasn't arrived. Gotta wonder about those guys, no wonder they layed me off, they can't even pay their employees on a timely manner!
Anyway, to top things off, last Wednesday, the "OTHER" boarder thought she was being helpful decided after taking her meds and drinking wine all day long, to take Cali out when it was windy and at dusk to "GRAZE" her on the fresh green grass outside of the arena, stall area.
Well the horses all four were turned out together and as Kathy (The "OTHER" boarder) lead Cali out the gate, Grey and Buddy fired up, so did Cali and she bolted! She RAN through the open gate, getting away from Kathy and took off. Kammi and Tom, saw Cali running around and came out to try and catch her. The end result of all the confusion was that Cali ended up running into and taking out 2 posts of 3 wire, barbed wire.
Kami called me by the time it was dark and I'm night blind nowadays... She rightly assessed the situation and most of the damage done. I told her I'd be there that morning and we'd see what was going on if there were more.
Turned out, when I got there that following morning, outside of cuts and scrapes, she had a swollen right knee, and was moving quite badly on her back end. Time to call a vet who I can't afford!
When Dr. Lange (Who's a gruff older gentleman) and his assistant, Chris got out there Doc Lange diagnosised Cali's backend problem as possibly being a bruised hip. Gave us pills for the little gal to be given twice a day crushed up and mixed with the only feed I had available, my BRAN! Mixed with water, vinegar and corn oil... Which got tiring for Cali within a couple of days... AND ran down what I had on hand for her and the REST of the crew!
Sorer for her outing, but at least it doesn't look like anything major happened...
You'd think that things had settled down by Friday, wouldn't you? Well come 10 AM that morning I got a phone call...
A BIG beautiful Palomino Filly... I named her Calisands Roberta (Bobbi) in honor of Robert, afterall he did name Cali after me!
My baby girl!!!!!!!
Baby Bobbi...Sleeping...
Nice thing about having a cell phone, you can send pictures to all your friends! The halter you see on her is over 26 years old. It's been on EVERY baby that's survived since Lil San was born 4/13/82...
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Mazoltov ( spelling?) on the new baby! What a cutie pie she is.
She looks like she is going to be a stunning horse! All the best to you both... and will be looking for new photos as she develops.
Jo
Who is drooling with envy!
4/30/08 11:50 AM