the yin and yang of it

back home after the long trek from Australia.

as Dorothy says “there’s no place like home”.

I walked into the kitchen in the early morning hours from the airport

to spy the box of ashes from our ewe, Jackie-O on the side table.

her tests (demanded by the state and here)
all came back negative, as I knew they would.
she died from natural causes
despite the frenzy to find a deeper reason.

although cremation for farm animals is over the top,

in this case I was not willing to have her 10 great years spent with us
tossed into some firepit with all their other specimens.

so we took her ashes and spread them this week across the fields where she lived her days here.

and the last handful was spread near her old companion Ashley and another lost lamb.

Luna has done it again…her gregarious, friendly self
met an abandoned barbed wire fence.
it is nasty and will take a month to truly heal at this writing.
I won’t even dare to show the actual damage.
Luna is amazing. her heart is huge and her spirit soars.
she never complains and is always a happy soul.
she needs to teach me a few things!
but I do think she needs to find a part-time job
to help pay her vet bills