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Today the vet said Tusse has been eating more - he was happily munching kibble even when half the staff was crowding his cage during their morning rounds. So unless the final tests tomorrow show something has deteriorated, he'll be coming home with us tomorrow afternoon.
I didn't go riding today. We'd planned on working with switching to the new servers at work this weekend, but a bug in the OS delayed stuff so that won't be for a couple of weeks yet. But since I'm still a bit under the weather from the cold I've been having, I thought it best to take a quiet day at home instead. I miss Melanie, though, but I should see her on Thursday when I go out to Skutt. It's very handy having both horses at the same stables - and I'm immensely lucky to be allowed to participate in their lives. I've bonded with Melanie in a way I've never done with another horse - both Samurai and Skutt have their primary humans already, and I was second or third for them. But Melanie's owners have four other horses to tend, so they haven't had as deep a relationship with her, and she seems to want that, and to find it with me. This isn't to say that I don't miss Samurai - I do, he's wonderful and I like him a lot and have learned a lot from him. Melanie can't teach me what he could. But emotionally she's my horse in a way that no other has been.
Like I said, I'm lucky. I've got the cats, and Calle, and the horses, and friends, and a good job. I miss some people I wish were closer, but their lives have taken a different turning. I don't grudge them their happiness, I just wish they weren't so far away. I've one close friend who moved away some time ago, and it still feels strange to drive past the place where she used to live and know that she's not there. And I've other friends who live so far away that we meet at best once a year - they're in Germany, or in England, or in Scotland, or Belgium. And yet others I might never meet. But I'm still blessed to know them.
I didn't go riding today. We'd planned on working with switching to the new servers at work this weekend, but a bug in the OS delayed stuff so that won't be for a couple of weeks yet. But since I'm still a bit under the weather from the cold I've been having, I thought it best to take a quiet day at home instead. I miss Melanie, though, but I should see her on Thursday when I go out to Skutt. It's very handy having both horses at the same stables - and I'm immensely lucky to be allowed to participate in their lives. I've bonded with Melanie in a way I've never done with another horse - both Samurai and Skutt have their primary humans already, and I was second or third for them. But Melanie's owners have four other horses to tend, so they haven't had as deep a relationship with her, and she seems to want that, and to find it with me. This isn't to say that I don't miss Samurai - I do, he's wonderful and I like him a lot and have learned a lot from him. Melanie can't teach me what he could. But emotionally she's my horse in a way that no other has been.
Like I said, I'm lucky. I've got the cats, and Calle, and the horses, and friends, and a good job. I miss some people I wish were closer, but their lives have taken a different turning. I don't grudge them their happiness, I just wish they weren't so far away. I've one close friend who moved away some time ago, and it still feels strange to drive past the place where she used to live and know that she's not there. And I've other friends who live so far away that we meet at best once a year - they're in Germany, or in England, or in Scotland, or Belgium. And yet others I might never meet. But I'm still blessed to know them.
