Starting from number six there are two new photographs on the Photo Page.
Unfortunately we have no more photographs to put on the Photo Page. Had it not been for Janice sending two in today there would not have been any.
I hope that I am wrong, but it could be that with recent lack of interest in both the Forum and Photo Page that both have come to the end of their sell by date. It may also be that the Forum is going in the wrong direction as I have received a number of emails from disillusioned viewers telling me that the Forum is becoming an agony page with too many illnesses being described with full details. I have always allowed a good amount of freedom in what is allowed on the Forum. Being a friendly Forum all using it want to know of the welfare of each other, but try to keep it to recent happenings.
Christmas Decorations at Chatsworth House.2008. Janice. of Leeds.
Christmas decorations at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire. Janice of Leeds.
We did have a few floods in our area after Thursday nights rain. It was only being told by one of our Holiday Guests and the amount of water around the Farm Yard that I realised what a storm it was, for I had slept through it all. It must have also been very windy as there were a number of objects, some heavy that had been blown about.
Driving around the Country Lanes delivering the logs we could see just how much rain there had been. The small brooks and streams had turned into raging rivers flooding many roads that we needed to drive very slowly through or we may have flooded the car. Last night we had a very bad frost that caused more problems with turning the puddles and wet roads into ice, that made driving this morning a little dangerous, but it soon thawed out.
After returning down the drive from a quick hour of Christmas Shopping we noticed Arnie laying down in the Horse Field. At the time he didn’t look uncomfortable although Arnie doesn’t lay down very often. On fetching the Horses in for their night feed Arnie was not first at the gate waiting to come in as normal and needed to be led in. He was very wet and cold under his turnout rug caused by both wet and sweat. He had little interest in his feed, eating very little, not like Arnie at all. He was also pawing a little at the floor and stretching his back legs as if in discomfort with colic.
We have rugged Arnie to dry him out and to get him warm. His droppings are normal that takes away one concern, and he seemed to be in less discomfort, although still a bit cold at 7.0pm. We will keep an eye on him through the night to make sure that he warms up and is starting to get better.