It feels to me as if Winter started in November, and hasn’t quite packed his bags yet.  It has rained and rained this spring, and its been cold, and raw, yesterday, it actually snowed here in Maine, a little north of me.  SNOWED.  Ugg.  That being said, its been nothing by one crisis after another here on my farm, I have two lame horses, my guess is pulled tendons, or sore joints, from slogging thru the mud, from the non stop rain, its hard to get the paddocks and run in area’s cleaned up because its nothing but slop.. Then, my ducks have started to die, they are exceptionally thin, and weak all of a sudden, my guess is some sort of respiratory aliment, my one remaining baby is now under a heat lamp, and on antibiotics,  and last night, when I went out to feed, Satin, my older appaloosa mare, didn’t come when I called, when I went to find her she was down, on her side, and not moving,  I approached her, calling her name, fearing the worst., as I got closer she flicked and ear.. she was cold, and I think just down, maybe she got down in the mud, and couldn’t get up, she is very good, if and when she is tangled up, or caught, about just waiting for me to come save her, and I think this may be what she did, she couldn’t get up, so she just laid there and waited.. I led her slowly to the barn, and wrapped her in warm dry blankets and called the veterinarian.  I didn’t have any idea how long she had been down, and I couldn’t hear any gut sounds, only the trembling and shaking she was doing. Once the vet arrived, she did an exam, and gave Sass, a big dose of steroids,  I gave her some pain meds, and by midnight she was doing much better, the shaking was gone, and so was her hay.   I didn’t get much sleep last night, and she is totally fine today… she is 28, so I worry about her.  well. off I go to hay…