Month: April 2009

Ravenwood’s animal quotient increased by one this morning.

The new addition is “Odin”. He was born some time around 10am this morning and is a healthy 50-ish pounds.

When Erin checked on Valkyrie this morning at about 9am she was the only horse out in the field. When Scott checked on Val at about 10:30, she had 8 legs.

What makes this funny is that we (Scott and I) have been giving Erin grief about how her fat horse looked pregnant… Well, Erin bought Val about 11 months ago and she must have been bred right before she was delivered.

I’ve spent most of the day assisting with the foal… Fortunately I have some passing experience with this.

So, there ya have it, the reason I’ve not been online much today.

It’s still snowing up here and the power is still out. No worries though, I’m simply enjoying the fire and boiling water for some tea.

It’s snowing here… A lot.

There is snow up to the windows, everything but the warwagon is stuck in various places in the driveway, and the power has been out for the last five hours.

Fortunately the house here is designed to be liveable in below zero conditions without power. I’m nice and toasty in front of the fire and reading my book by candlelight.

I took the roommates over to safeway in the warwagon through snow deeper than the wheels are tall. No problems to report -the warwagon is a tank. 🙂

I’m posting via my cell phone and need to make this short as there’s limited ability to recharge. Just know that I’m fine and enjoying the silence up here. 😉