One of Sister Sherry's goals is to provide refuge for many animals. These mares were on their way to a slaughterhouse in Canada when a rescue group in Yakima intervened. Sherry has given them a home ever since.
The mares had been kept pregnant to provide the urine for the making of the drug premarin (which fell out of favor with all of the bad publicity about hormones). When production of the drug pretty much ceased, they had no use for the mares, so were sending them to slaughter. They now spend their days out in the pastures of the farm, occasionally coming into the corrals for water.
Yesterday I brought my laundry over to Sherry's big washer and got a start on it. Hopefully, I'll get it finished today. Forry spent most of the day working on getting a handle bar installed on the right side of Auntie Violet's entrance. My sole contribution to the task was getting to hunker down in the front slide (which is opened to take on diesel) with a wrench to hold on to a bolt while he tightened it on the inside.
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