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Cuteness Abounds at Carpe Diem Farms!
Written By: Sue Blair - Carpe Diem Farms | Issue: July 2023
Every dog has its day. For Miss Hathaway, it was May26 at Carpe Diem Farms.
We have a big announcement to make!
Carpe Diem Farms has a new family member. On May 26, the canine crew increased.
Jethro has been looking for a permanent, in-house playmate for months. Together we headed to Greenville, South Carolina, to find a perfect match – a two-month-old “Mini-Me” look-alike Bernedoodle.
In keeping with the Beverly Hillbilly theme of naming the canine crew, Ellie Mae the Yorkie, Jethro Blair the Bernedoodle, and now Miss Hathaway, who will be called Hattie for short, joined our happy family. I must admit, it wasn’t love at first sight for Jethro, but five days after her arrival, the tide has turned, and a wonderful kinship is forming. The cats, Lilly Belle and Gracia de Dios, together with Ellie Mae, are still deciding – so far, they think it was a bad idea.
We had a wonderful birthday celebration last month for the horses. If you couldn’t be with us celebrating the six turning 16-32 years of age, we hope to see you sometime down on the farm.
Some days I get stopped on the street, at the grocery, or in the Post Office by followers of our amazing Morgan mare, Battersea Tracy (aka Tracy).
In late October 2018, Tracy developed an abscess in her right front hoof that went rogue in her hoof. The resulting infection required three operations. She lost the wing and a portion of her medial side of her coffin bone. She survived and within nine months was thriving back in her herd.
Within months due to the loss of her hoof bone, her leg at the fetlock joint began rolling over her hoof. The result: Another operation cutting the deep digital tendon to release the hoof. Following six months of healing, she was once again running with the herd. Now, four years and seven months since we began, every day starts and ends with Tracy care. Her loving spirit, resilience, fortitude, innate purpose to be with her herd, and an amazing teacher for me and her caregivers to think freely. Through her, we invent new possibilities.
