My Farm Lady

Because of my farm lady, three (count ‘em three) horses just went to their new farms!  This is very excellent news because our equine friends really deserved to have their very own families who will love them forever and ever!  Dudley and I hosted a little goodbye get-together in the pasture to send them off.  Our friends were sure looking a whole lot better compared to when they first came to us, that’s for sure.  They were feeling confident and happy; their bodies were sound and they were feeling just fine.  

While here, Major learned to stop jumping over stall doors and fences (that habit was not in his best interest, let me tell you).  He now knows how to stand quietly in his stall.  He sure worried everyone a whole lot when he first came here and he caused quite a bit of havoc, especially the morning he jumped the fence to get to the girls which was the same morning my farm lady had to leave for the airport.  Trust me, that was not a good day around here.  But Major eventually learned to relax and hang out and I know that all will be well in his new home.

Faith did an exceptional job raising her baby (remember my letter about the New Kid on the Block?)  We will miss her.  She was such a good mom.  Now this was a horse that was absolutely destined to go to that place where Unspeakable Things happen, but because of how that baby was born, and because of my farm lady (along with another very special farm person), they came here to live and Faith now has her own family and a little girl who adore her.  That story nearly brings tears to my eyes if I really think about what might have happened, it really does. Her story came very close to having a tragic ending.  

And Miss Belle found her forever home too.  When she came, she had wounds all over her body because when she worked in the fields no one paid attention to see if her plowing gear fit her properly.  It didn’t.  She had big sores when she came, but my farm lady tended to those wounds and Belle healed up just fine, started feeling good and was ready to go to her new farm in no time at all.

So my farm lady does remarkable things, although I’m not always sure she thinks so.  I’m just guessing, but I’m pretty sure she thinks she doesn’t do enough in this world.  She doesn’t always give herself credit for knowing what it means to the horses when she helps them relax and feel safe.  And she probably doesn’t think she is doing much when she gives them medicine or bathes them in special shampoo when their skin is rotting or they have big wounds.  And I’m not always sure she realizes what it means when she finds the horses their own special families who will love them and be gentle and kind to them forever.  She has been doing this for so long, she probably just thinks it is her job, but we all know that she saves the horses lives.  She is our hero.  She could not do more if she tried and we are really proud of her.

So she does big, important things like this and she does a lot of other things too, every day, even when she does not have the time.  Like making sure there is enough hay in the barn (donkeys believe this is a very critical item), and grain, and medicine when we need it, and making sure the animal doctor comes out if we aren’t feeling well, or the dentist or the chiropractor or the foot doctor.  But she also does other things that no one sees at all.  Like letting all of us know every day that she loves us and that we are safe and that it is her job to make sure we are OK and that we don’t have to worry about anything. 

 It doesn’t get any better than this, having her. We are the lucky ones…

So thank you for loving us, farm lady.  We see what you do every day.  And we all love you right back. 

 Love,

 Donkey