'Tis the Season to be Nostalgic........
Rosie and me Rosie's story is one of love and survival, which seems perfect to blog about in light of new fears and new restrictions this week relative to the pandemic and wondering how our "new normal" winter holidays will roll out this year in 2020. Rosie was one of about 300 horses - and counting, born on a friend's acreage. Normally that's not terribly unusual but read on. This huge herd started with one rescue horse and through the years, the owner, Bill acquired more horses one by one. Some were sick or abandoned; some were born blind, and some were given to him by people no longer able to care for them because of their finances or circumstances. Bill could never turn even one of them away. But they all grazed together on his acreage, and ultimately formed their own families and hierarchy through the years. With over 300 acres, Bill divided them up into smaller, manageable parcels he kept in his head, and he would drive through and check on the horses