Bittersweet post this time, and it’s taken me ages to get to the stage where I can write about this. But let’s update you from the last post and hopefully bring you up to date.
We bought a Clydesdale in November!!!! Her passport name is like “My Lady of Aquitaine”, so I was going to give her the moniker of “Mlya” (get it?) but during her first days with us she proved to be super good at escaping our electric fences and helping herself to the untouched standing hay we were saving for the deepest winter. So from now on she will be known as “Dora the Explorer”.
And here’s Dora:
Tim loves Dora and so Cushy was a bit pushed out (see the photo above where Dora is literally getting the bum’s rush). In November we had a glut of pears so all the horses got lovely tasty pears for after-dinner snacks and I made pear chutney by the barrel load. I ran out of jars and ended up pouring it into plastic containers for the freezer.
Sadly, Cushy Butterfield was put to sleep a few days before Christmas 2022. She was 25, a good age for a big draft horse. She will be sorely missed.
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