Whew . . .

I know it's been quite the hiatus since I last posted here, and I have no excuse except that I have bee busy! Work, home, and with life in general! Things are going good and I have no complaints!

I found these online today and they made me super excited!! Woot, Go Ontario!! If you ever have had any of this companies granola bars, you know that they're delicious. If you haven't had one, find them and try them, you will not be dissapointed!

Ups and Downs

This week has been a challenge. A very emotional draining one at that.

The goods; celebrated a birthday and a long awaited birth of a filly.

The bads; had to fire one girl from work and lost two amazing animals this week, one unfortunately being the same filly born this week.

It sucks. Big time. I think I'm more upset over the death of two horses that I am at the issue from work. Not too sure if that's good or bad. . . .

Both of the horse that passed belong to good friends of mine. Charlie, was a strawberry roan Belgium, who sadly succumbed to equine protozoan myopathy on Tuesday. He was 31 years young and thanks to his owner Aaron, lived the last years of his life with lots of love and happiness. Pixi, a beautiful little Thoroughbred filly, was born on the same day Charlie passed. She was shy, sweet and had legs that went for miles. She stole the heart of anyone who looked a her. Sadly today we found her collapsed in the brood stall, unable to stand and shaking terribly. The vet was called and came out, but sadly was not able to help. She had a suspected intestinal inception, and we would not have been able to get her to the closes animal hospital in time to save her. She passed surrounded by her owner Cate, myself and a friend Alexis. She will be sadly and dearly missed. It's not fair and my heart just aches for them all.

Sweet Pixi - March 2011

Only two days will us but forever in our hearts

A Day Late . . .

Happy (belated) St. Patricks Day!

I'm in the midst of a six day breakfast shift week, I'm currently on day five. I usually only do two really early shifts per week, but the other girl wanted March break off to spend with her kids and how could I say no? I was super nervous with being one man down in staff and also because of some other issue that happened on earlier in the week with another staff member, but we're getting through it and we're doing pretty good! Not exactly where I want to be but damn close!

Even though I bake all day at work, sometimes I still have the urge to bake when I get home. Apparently some people think that I'm crazy for it but whatever, I enjoy it. So with St. Patty's I wanted to do something Irish for dinner but wasn't fond of the idea of colouring our food green . . . I know someone who did that once and it's not a pretty sight. So I ended up going with a 'mock' Irish stew and some soda bread. I say 'mock' stew because traditionally it's made with lamb, which I seriously dislike, but I used beef instead. I wasn't over the moon about the stew but the bread turned out decent. Hop over here to find the recipe I used.