He was one of the Greats...

[Charlie Horse]

Oh wow.  Thursday afternoon I had to put down Sagan, a 30 year old TB/QH mix that had belonged to my late friend Cactus Dan.  He was 30 and with a little help from the vet and some donations from Dan's old friends for his expensive vitamins and supliments, I got him through last year's mild winter.  Lately he'd been losing weight and muscle to the point he had a hard time getting up off of the ground.  So the time had come and he spent his last hours out in the pasture, normally off limits to the horses due to the drought.  I had the vet put him down and buried him in the horse field.  At least it was his time and not something so random...

A lightning strike!  Wow, such bad luck for you guys.  I worry about the horses when there is nearby lightning but I never really expect it to happen!  Just when you thought some nice rain was going to make all the critters happy, too.  I saw some lightning across the valley yesterday and was pondering the odds of Sagan getting struck an hour before he was going to be put down.  I probably need to start wearing a tinfoil hat or something...

You know, I remember someone did a PBS nature series about some wild horses in Colorado and if I recall, half the herd got zapped by lightning all at once.

I hope you can cheer yourself up a little with the thought of perhaps providing a new home for a hopeful young colt.  Looking for the next one is the one thing that really helps me out when I lose one.