This message is from: Anneli Sundkvist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all!
I guess many of you have heard about the heath wave in southern Europe.
Now, this has caused all the bad weather to go north and has given us
here in Sweden a very bad summer. In many places they have not been able
to put up any hay yet, and perhaps there won't be any in some parts of
the country. Large areas in mid-Sweden has been flooded due to much
rain. Roads, bridges and houses have been destroyed by violent streams,
that used to be small rivers or even creeks, but now have grown into
rapids. People has to boil the drinking water. They say that things are
getting better, but it's still raining outside...in this part of the
country, we haven't been flooded yet and hopefully we won't be. 'My'
barn-owner has managed to get the hay in, but the horses will eat
haylage most of the time this winter too. They will have their annual
shot in august.
Another sad thing that has happend here is that a horse-murderer is on
the loose in southern Sweden. He has killed three horses - one of them
was a fjord mare! Only a mile from my barn another horse was cut (she
survived) by somebody (a different person this time - the horse-murders
are many miles from here) which has caused us to lock all halters and
lead ropes into the harness room and to lock the barn as well.
Apparantly, the horse had been brought in from the pasture into the
barn, and we hope to make things a bit more difficult for anyone by
locking up the barn and hiding things that can be used to tie a horse.
The horses weren't even allowed to wear their fly masks, which made my
mare catch an eye-infection! She's fine now and her flymask is on. The
situation has been quiet for some weeks, but they still have no trace of
the person who cut the mare. I'm not particulary worried about my own
mare, since she's afraid of strangers and I don't think she would let a
strange man handle her. BUT one never knows and there are other mares in
our barn.
Well, time for my question: my gelding Cider has a pretty short and
silly-looking forelock. On the other hand, he has a thick mane and a
lovely tail. Does anyone know a trick to make the forelock grow longer?
Regards
Anneli in a rainy Sweden
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Anneli Sundkvist
Department of Archaeology Ancient History
Uppsala University
St. Eriks Torg 5
S-753 10 Uppsala
Sweden
Phone: +46-18-4712082 (dept.) +46-18-553627 (home)
