We know that when we love there will come a time when we must say our final goodbye. It is with a heavy heart that I share news from Carpe Diem Farms. Thursday August 21, our magnificent “Izzy” was laid to rest in our St. Frances Cemetery with the 16 others who have predeceased her.
When I was a girl of fifteen, Disney launched a new movie, The Horse in the Grey Flannel Suit. From that moment on I knew that someday in my life I would have my own grey flannel suited horse!
Many, many years passed, and 23 horses have graced my life. Finally, in January of 2013 the 24th horse would be my very own dappled grey six-year-old Oldenburg whose registered name was Isabeau’s Nightwatch. Seventeen two hands tall, a little pigeon toed and full of joyful spunk showed up in my life.
She was in West Virginia, at Meredith Manor Equestrian College. The head riding instructor owned her, trained her in dressage and was selling the six-year-old mare. I scheduled an appointment to meet and ride her on my way home from the annual International Hoof Care Summit in Cincinnati, Ohio, with horse trailer in toe, we left Ohio for West Virginia. She was prettier in person than her photos. I had a glorious ride on her in the arena, consummated the sale and we were on our way to Carpe Diem. The weather wasn’t our friend as we followed a snowstorm all the way home. Izzy was a wonderful traveler and made the trip non-eventful. I promised her it would be her last trailer ride and that Carpe Diem would be her home forever. All these many years she was a special member of the herd. She wasn’t the bravest, only liked being ridden in the arena but oh what a special, beautiful girl.
The herd is quiet as they process their loss and learn to live as a band of five. She will always be in our mind’s eye and our hearts.
The pictorial captures her very essence. A special girl, lovingly remembered.
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