I did something unprecedented yesterday evening: I decided to take a nap at 6:30. I almost never take naps. At 8:30, I woke up long enough to realize, “Good, Jack is feeding the horses.” At 12:30, I woke and realized I was still dressed. I took off my clothes, and went back to bed. Finally, I woke up again about 4:30, feeling completely refreshed. <\/p>\n
So this morning I decided to catch up reading email and just relaxing. I felt more cheerful than I had since discovering Lily’s injury because it had gone down so much when I removed the wrap yesterday. The vet was quite optimistic when she saw it before she put the gel cast on it.<\/p>\n
Then my neighbors called. They could see a deer hung up in my fence. Jack had just left for the office. We agreed to meet at the deer in five minutes and see what we could do.<\/p>\n
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The neighbors are sisters who live in the house west of us. The deer, a young one, was caught on the chain between the west gate and the fence post. I told them to lift the back end up while I lifted the front end, and then push. Somewhat to my surprise, it worked! The deer bounded off and looked pretty sound despite a lot of abrasions.<\/p>\n
However, I then head a panicked deer caught in our horse field. The horses were excited as well. I finally decided to feed the horses in the barn, and then lead them to the new field and shut them in. I’ve opened the gates to the old field, which was a challenge because the west gate was locked, and it had been five years since it had been opened. I couldn’t even find the key for quite a while, and went through every key stash in the house. It took a liberal spray of WD40 before the key would work.<\/p>\n
Some weeks it is just one damn thing after another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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