Welp - I have good news and I have bad news. On one hand, they balance things out and on the other (the way I see it at the moment), it totally sucks and not even close! And man, o man, life truly isn't fair at times... :
We've kind of all been checking ponies lately - expecting this foal. I was out in the pasture on Sunday evening, a couple of times thru the night & into the wee hours Monday morning. I didn't get Tory and 'Clipse moved the way I'd wanted to. I topped off water tanks, fed some hay Monday morning and headed into the house - at 545. Took my shower and dressed for work and stopped at the gate @ 630 as I was leaving to study the pasture where the mares are. Kava had been playing earlier and now she's settled into an early nap at Koalah' hooves. 'Clipse and K-la are holding a corner up and standing there looking like "Woe is me, Woe is me".... I always find that expression on pony's faces sooo funny. Off to work I go.
Larry texts me to let me know he's arrived home (early - due to having to do some stuff) and ponies are all OK and there are "no new legs" (a favorite chant right now)... He's headed to his DR appointment. That's over and he's texting me than there's no texts - but a call comes in. I don't normally take phone calls while at work (I answer the phones and schedule appointments, talking personally makes that difficult and it's a big "no-no"...), but I answered it. Larry didn't have a voice for a moment and I don't remember exactly what he said ..something like "Kava isn't with us anymore..." WHAT? He clears throat and says "Kava has passed on - Sierra and Julie are taking care of her body at the moment"... WHOAAA
Well, it seems Sierra's little impossible girl, Kava, had a freak pasture accident. Between Larry leaving for Dr appointment and Julie arriving around 10ish, she passed on. Some of the dogs I was recovering yesterday afternoon were kinda salty and wet, too... They cleaned up ok and didn't seem to mind when fully awake. For once, I embraced the work of "working in the back" while they were short handed. Say a prayer to speed her Blue Eyed self on her way across the bridge for our family and our daughter Sierra - who is REALLY HAVING A ROUGH TIME w/ this...
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When I checked on 'Clipse last night, after I arrived home (it was getting dark, had been raining off/on all day) - I was stumped. By the look of her belly, sides and rump, she was about ready. Her vulva hadn't changed color but it had started elongating (YAY!!). BUT her "bag" was really really small (to me!). I didn't sleep much and let me tell you my legs did some serious cramping w/ the number of times I went out and checked on 'Clipse. NOTHING and no changes. OK, I DO have to get some sleep - so got a 3 hour nap. Larry made me breakfast this morning while I went out and checked. No more positive changes, but no backwards movement either. NO wax. I again left late for work & stopped at the gate to locate each of the mares in the pasture. It was difficult as it was steamy w/ humidity and the haze was hard to see thru. BUT located them and 'Clipse and K-la are standing around (again). Larry had some plans for today, but I called him and asked him to check on 'Clipse. Not sure why - nothing had changed.
First text... You got it - "No new legs"... Then ...
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at 0850 - "WE got EXTRA LEGS..."
and he was nice enough to send pics...
It'll be interesting to see how first impressions pan out as he fills out.
