We haven’t had any more bad news this week regarding our animals.  We’re now simply in a position of watching and waiting. The shock and relief of nothing (or no one) getting killed initially in the shootings that we felt for the first week changed into anger and frustration a week later when we found [...]

Filed under: Building Construction 2009-10, Farm, Home, Home Projects on November 28th, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Although the vet had tried to prepare us for the worst right after the shooting, it’s clear we weren’t prepared for what was to come. The day of the shootings I had checked the cattle twice, and although admittedly distracted by the horse shootings themselves, I hadn’t seen anything obviously wrong with any of the [...]

Filed under: Farm on November 20th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Yesterday Duchess was out of sorts, so Kim called the vet to come back and do some blood work on her. We naturally assumed that Hope, who had been shot three or four times was at greater risk to not survive, but Duchess is quite a bit older and was still in the midst of [...]

Filed under: Farm on November 18th, 2009 | No Comments »

Our building projects continued while we were caring for the horses. Frank has continued to work all week on the various building projects. He was working finishing the garage on Monday when the horse shootings occurred.  On Tuesday he put the Typar housewrap on the garage and we moved some lumber around before he started [...]

Filed under: Building Construction 2009-10, Home, Home Projects on November 15th, 2009 | No Comments »