Worried, Very Worried
I just got off the phone with my riding coach. Pi and all the other horses at Christine Traurig’s barn are being evacuated to the San Diego Fair Grounds because of the approaching fires. I’m sick with worry about my boy. Yes, I wanted to sell him, but I hate to think of his afraid and being forced into a truck when all the humans around him iwll be so upset. He’s a very sensitive horse and I know he’s going to be very worried.
This trip to CA was ill fated. Last night I hurt my back, and had to cancel. Then we get calls from the barns where we were going to look at horses up in the L.A. area. They are all evacuating too. I couldn’t have ridden even if were physically up to it.
I’m trying to work on my short story, but it’s hard to concentrate. I just keep thinking about my pony.
Melinda
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:19 pm
Poor Pi. Hopefully the move will go well and it’ll be all right. I don’t know how many pictures I’ve now seen of the fires — really terrible.
October 23rd, 2007 at 11:40 am
Fingers crossed that all comes out right, Melinda.
October 25th, 2007 at 6:36 am
The fires are rather worrisome; I’m in the older built-up areas of San Diego, several miles from the threatened areas, but the fires moved rapidly enough so that my roommate and I packed up the essentials Tuesday, just in case. Two good friends of ours lost their house in Rancho Bernardo, and several others have been evacuated. But the latest news sounds as if things are improving a little. In the meantime, we’ve been keeping in touch both with our local friends and with people we know elsewhere, partly by phone but largely by e-mail and livejournal, much more than we did during the last big fires in 2003, and it makes a difference. There’s a lot less sense of isolation. It may be that the worst is over now; let us hope that this is so.