The new guys hide together, eat, and bat at the line of play toys I'd put out.

Just adopted: Barnaby (fluffy tuxie) and Sammy (crumpled ears):

I miss having orange boys who loved to snuggle together.

Dammit, woman, you wrote Wolf Worm and I just read it and holy guacamole but you HAVE to keep writing. Yes, I'm selfish. Deal with it.

Old deadwood in a swamp.

Merc today, in failing health. Edging up to the final decision.

Snuggle time!

Have a lovely snuggle for Caturday!

Jesus take the wheel!

The solution! it could work!

Oh, yes, yes indeed.

From decades ago, my late QH, visiting a friend's farm for the summer, met her homebred colt, who'd never seen another horse besides his dam and was fascinated by this stranger in his home.

"What the...?"

The idiot in chief doesn't know, doesn't care, and will demand his performative pseudo-warrior in charge at Defense -- excuse me, WAR -- send in the Marines.

Oh God they're really going to try to seize Hormuz with boots on the ground. What a horrible waste of those young men's lives.

Winter beach riders, who sometimes are crazy.

A chicken in every pot!

Dogs know! You have been honored.

Dunes on a winter beach.

After the storm:

Enjoying their window time: Pumpkin, Ed, Schooner.

Pumpkin snuggles with his brother Squash. Happy Caturday!

Late afternoon light, with bays.

When you want to play with your favorite toy but it's at the very bottom of the toy basket, and by the time you dig it out you need a nap.

[eulogy cont.] Commander slipped swiftly, peacefully into surcease from pain. He died with dignity, with his pride and spirit intact, and with a cookie in his mouth.
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[eulogy] Commander went to his rest [that] morning at a little past 10:00, ending his drawn-out, roller-coaster, ultimately unwinnable battle with founder. He walked slowly but resolutely out of the barn, into the sunlight, and stood foursquare with his head high as we gave him our last gift.
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Commander (reg.Beyond Command0, a Morgan I had for a few years until laminitis took him. A smart, confident horse who liked to test the human's limits but was always a pleasure to be around.

Sand patterns left by the retreating tide on a flat beach.