Gilt Sparrows - a Fifty Foal Challenge
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Mielle was rushed into surgery. Katie and Everett alternately paced the waiting room and rebuked the other for pacing the waiting room. Wren and Binky made arrangements to board Honeybee and the adults at the Equestrian Center - Bee needed someone to feed her, needed at least one familiar horse with her for company, and it was easier to just deliver the whole quartet, just in case an extended stay was in the cards. (Little did anyone guess what was in the cards).
By the time the younger Sparrows arrived, the parents knew that Mielle's prognosis was not good - GI rupture of as-yet-undetermined cause, and resultant peritonitis. After a sleepless night, they learned that she had not survived the surgery. With great sorrow they went home to a completely unexpected shock:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AJFCJaXdg-msmZfF8uYgp2hVRqvJe73jYlOqgzbxiiVOuquB4AN5QI69rGTaiU4sSjkrY3OI31RAb4gyoAWJPyP4DNFXl1u7xJE_GjNKV4EpY2DMldavvYdwAR6rTpncDJNNbv9qk8L1msTT2N7yH0_9DBaC=w1331-h749-s-no?authuser=0
A space ship had crashed onto their property! The stable was flattened - thank goodness ALL the horses had gone to the EC! - the house was mostly gone, the pool and fields were buried. The Space Force arrived just a few moments after the Sparrows did and took control of the site.
Fortunately, another property was available, already walled and Katie spared no expense in getting a new stable built while the family stayed in a hotel. The horses were soon returned to their own - if a new - property.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AJFCJaUTnp2KiyQFwj47Jz0SnCPL-Brwt3WiG1PZHkZDnjRAPrgKYow8nlgyy1frBkqXo_OHN6Wb_pyZT-JAM6Vszuf35QlPd9Z3GCiAZz-HbjwiWv5Ys5VYjRM3NcsZKa4Xdbr0qKx-3qXzqvehOgRxtCnf=w1331-h749-s-no?authuser=0
Electrum took over the role of mother for his somewhat difficult daughter.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AJFCJaVV1o740JpM6A7Q-BuKNxIfinZJxkceVobZOONl_c1JWu0eJhb81Y21Bx4o7DsWV3XQo58LfraGD5Yz1qYlTfDX2scGd2pQoLDD4M-2e5OnKY6L1Rh1t3MwU68uof9JJU0XtU4Wjiy5VOdmzD6zza3o=w1331-h749-s-no?authuser=0
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AJFCJaUx70WSnmUCPAbVR2CurotvWsICg6ldGhO28BZ5tzOplEyyyfM-VKT3hlIyib3DNTyt8n7bR2mOHdAXCz2kLYS0Ovzfz1N531CCyshPD_LpmJCem1Gr3CY37pVcPX4-tMkshuXoEUniuJY_SSes5gDS=w1331-h749-s-no?authuser=0
Skipper had her own foal and little interest in being Bee's mother. And of course Katie and her family still had to feed the filly.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AJFCJaX84QAzI3xh9qByitZtxs1jOPmXOFb2cyLNPql7__PDtgNBZfR6cBwuUICkprMyrJCsW3JYhof1bfvHX6Sg2VcNPJk5beY0i64hdF8uUPMZPMa2_P6GeAi3Kn4hSlBNSSk139RO_T8XgLWwkcDOXY2P=w1331-h749-s-no?authuser=0
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By the time the younger Sparrows arrived, the parents knew that Mielle's prognosis was not good - GI rupture of as-yet-undetermined cause, and resultant peritonitis. After a sleepless night, they learned that she had not survived the surgery. With great sorrow they went home to a completely unexpected shock:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AJFCJaXdg-msmZfF8uYgp2hVRqvJe73jYlOqgzbxiiVOuquB4AN5QI69rGTaiU4sSjkrY3OI31RAb4gyoAWJPyP4DNFXl1u7xJE_GjNKV4EpY2DMldavvYdwAR6rTpncDJNNbv9qk8L1msTT2N7yH0_9DBaC=w1331-h749-s-no?authuser=0
A space ship had crashed onto their property! The stable was flattened - thank goodness ALL the horses had gone to the EC! - the house was mostly gone, the pool and fields were buried. The Space Force arrived just a few moments after the Sparrows did and took control of the site.
Fortunately, another property was available, already walled and Katie spared no expense in getting a new stable built while the family stayed in a hotel. The horses were soon returned to their own - if a new - property.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AJFCJaUTnp2KiyQFwj47Jz0SnCPL-Brwt3WiG1PZHkZDnjRAPrgKYow8nlgyy1frBkqXo_OHN6Wb_pyZT-JAM6Vszuf35QlPd9Z3GCiAZz-HbjwiWv5Ys5VYjRM3NcsZKa4Xdbr0qKx-3qXzqvehOgRxtCnf=w1331-h749-s-no?authuser=0
Electrum took over the role of mother for his somewhat difficult daughter.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AJFCJaVV1o740JpM6A7Q-BuKNxIfinZJxkceVobZOONl_c1JWu0eJhb81Y21Bx4o7DsWV3XQo58LfraGD5Yz1qYlTfDX2scGd2pQoLDD4M-2e5OnKY6L1Rh1t3MwU68uof9JJU0XtU4Wjiy5VOdmzD6zza3o=w1331-h749-s-no?authuser=0
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Skipper had her own foal and little interest in being Bee's mother. And of course Katie and her family still had to feed the filly.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AJFCJaX84QAzI3xh9qByitZtxs1jOPmXOFb2cyLNPql7__PDtgNBZfR6cBwuUICkprMyrJCsW3JYhof1bfvHX6Sg2VcNPJk5beY0i64hdF8uUPMZPMa2_P6GeAi3Kn4hSlBNSSk139RO_T8XgLWwkcDOXY2P=w1331-h749-s-no?authuser=0
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