Brooding

[constance]

I have a stepcousin who recently bought a Clydesdale ranch in Colorado, and she's just broadcast pictures of the ranch's firstborn foal. I've always loved Clydesdales, although I wasn't ever the kind of little girl who never stopped thinking about horses. But I've been wondering lately if that wasn't just because I'd never seen a Clydesdale foal.

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[thalia]

Awww! How adorable!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

*beams at you* they are, aren't they?

[submarine.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. *draws hearts all around* T_T_T_T_T






(I, uh. I was one of those girls. Still am, really.)

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Nothing wrong with that, man! *draws hearts around the both of you!*

[laurelwood.livejournal.com]

I am deafened now by the high-pitched screams of my eldest. Even the thought of shopping for a hearing aid, though, doesn't dim my enjoyment of these pictures. Draft horses are surely my favorites (I like my dogs and cats thin and sleek, but my horses beefy and shaggy) but OMG FOAL. I've never seen such a new one before.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm sorry for the deafness. :/ But I did think of you and Brooke as I was posting this. Even if no one else cares about Starbuck's newness and shininess and fuzziness and spindliness, I said to myself, they will, I said. I do know that you love draft horses at least as much as I do, after all.

I like my creatures generally larger-than-life, it seems. Doesn't matter so much if they're stocky or attenuated, shaggy or sleek, as long as they're comparatively massive.

I've never seen such a new one before either. He weighed 150 pounds at birth! And apparently the weight was all in the legs, because, OMG look at them. they are so huge and sinewy and strong compared to the rest of him.

[imkalena.livejournal.com]

He weighed 150 pounds at birth!

LOL!! He may be shiny and new and utterly precious and I want one, but he's really the least spindly foal I've ever seen. :)

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, how can you say so! They are thick spindles, sure, but those are some long and knobbly legs!

[gmth.livejournal.com]

Oh, he's beautiful. I'm especially in love with the pic of him and (I presume) his mother. Such gorgeous animals.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Yes, I love the two horses together, as well. I don't know if that's is mother or not (P. didn't say), but they do look wonderfully together.

[aubrem.livejournal.com]

aw, the mommy and baby picture! awwwwwww! I'm sure she's so proud!

(doesn't matter if that's not the mother - I'm saying it is : )

And wow, so cool that your stepcousin just went and did that. Was this a natural progression or did she just decide to go with a dream and buy a Clydesdale ranch?

[tofty.livejournal.com]

I've been curious about this, myself! I don't know my cousin very well at all -- I mean, I haven't met her more than half a dozen times in twenty years -- and all communications are filtered through my uncle, and I'm not quite sure what the whole story is. I got the impression from my uncle that they've had the dream for a long time, realized it wasn't going to happen without my uncle's help, and so asked him to invest. He helped with the down payment, and this colt is officially his because of that, and he pays for the little one's upkeep now.

It is cool, isn't it? I love this idea of starting over this way (before, they both had boring old jobs in Dallas!), especially because they're in their early forties and have been in their rut for a long time now. (Like me! :D) I hope they make a success of it, I really do. And not just for little Starbuck's sake.

[aubrem.livejournal.com]

Early forties? Wow. I mean, I'm in my early forties but I feel like I've lost the sort of energy and enthusiasm for physical labor that running a horse ranch might take. I mean, there's no calling in sick for a mental health day when there's animals to take care of.

Then again, if it was the right project and a dream of mine I'd probably be up for it. It's nice to be reminded that that is still possible.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

I feel the same way. I find this whole story very encouraging. :)

[tinderblast.livejournal.com]

Eeee! So peachy!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Ain't he jist? :D