Monday

There is a new foal in the valley! A day old - and very, very cute it is too. Pearl and I saw it when we took a walk down the lane to B's yesterday. As we neared his shed, Pearl must have heard him in there and went over to say hello, and when she did, he told us about the new foal, born a couple of days early, and now moved into the paddock down near the floats. We went over to have a look and even though it is chestnut, it will get darker with age. It has a small blaze on its face, and three white feet. There's something very special about seeing a foal, not yet 24 hours old, standing and walking with its mother. There will be some more new little ones as well - so that's all very exciting!

Finally WAG (Winners are Grinners) back at Trivia again; we managed the top spot on the podium - the first time in ages. I think we played well though. I'm just glad that it wasn't so close that the point I made them take off (they had given us one too many in Round 1) didn't spell the difference between placing and not. I don't think I would have ever heard the end of it - and I was only able to do it at all because F was away from the table at the time. But, honesty is its own reward, because they gave us some drinks vouchers for pointing out the error ... which will go nicely with the $50 voucher from the win, and the $15 voucher for third place last week ... and also with the meat tray that Sooz won tonight!

We still haven't had any rain to speak of ... even though it was almost like a Winter's day here yesterday. It was a day for curling up on the couch with a good book or DVD - not going through reams and reams of Order Amendments at the office!

All the furries are well and are mostly spending the nights in with M now. The other day when I went in to give Beazley his shot, he and Pearl were both very comfortable on M's bed. This morning it was just Beazley and Maggie - Pearl may have been on the bed beforehand, but as soon as I opened the door she was there and definitely on the lookout for a cookie (already elevated out of her reach before the door opened!).

And speaking of "elevated", Tink's blood sugars were right up last Friday when M took her to the vet and her insulin has been increased to 3 units morning and night. I think it's not agreeing with her - only in that she seems to be ravenous most of the time now. She asked for (and was given) special cookies three times this morning! Hopefully the vets will be able to bring her diabetes under control soon - it has been a while since she was diagnosed and she just seems to seesaw between too high and too low. But at least she is maintaining her weight and hopefully the new insulin regime will help.