Sunday, December 14, 2008

by the light of the Fiesta..

last night, going up to bring Smokey in to his stable after work, it was pitch black and some of the stable lights are not working. I couldn't see to read the code to open the padlock to get Smokeys breakfast ready for the following morning, he does not 'need' this feed or the treat of apples and carrots he gets for his tea, but.....how could you dissapoint the poor horse? so I reversed my Fiesta round the barn, avoiding building materials etc. and used it as a torch...don't know what the farmer would have thought of this and I'm not sure you are allowed to take your car round there. just to point out this car is 10 years old and sooooo reliable its amazing. just realized i don't have a picture of it, will try to take and post one today sometime.

and here is my wee garden robin, unfortuately I have had resisdent robins before, one was dispatched by the cat downstairs and another by the cat next door. my cats have yet to be accused of murdering robins, Tansy has had a couple of sparrows and a bluetit. Daisy has never caught anything as far as I know and I have seen birds hopping round her as if they know she is not a threat.


4 comments:

Wildside said...

Ah, hello, Robin!

Smokey, you are so lucky to have Claire as a friend!

clairesgarden said...

Wildside, Smokey does appreciate food!!

peppylady (Dora) said...

I sure Smokey enjoyed his spot of tea. Do you feed him corn on the cob or not.
Coffee is on.

clairesgarden said...

Dora, you do get corn in horse mixes here, but Smokey is always on a diet so they are too high protein for him, he gets lots of carrots from me as a treat.