i didn't want to write any of this, give it words. But i think i should. Everything now will arise from this moment. And things will be changed.
The first Watch Duty Alert came at 11 01am ten acres grass and oak woodland, moderate rate of spread by 11 p, 3000 plus. Both able bodied males had left that morning to go visiting…Phoenix and New Mex. It was the four of us. Jenny, Alyssia, Emrie and Me. Jenny was coming from work. A E and me were to get Goats into the corridor of the Curry House. j and A struggled to pull the "goat boat" forward from where it had been blocked for 3 years. They finally did. The loading, one by one with Tay's long horse lead and a lot of coaxing went as smoothly as could be, considering. We rolled down the driveway down stopping at Jack's to open his gate, open the door to the feed shed there. Wish him well with pained hearts. Emrie had questions. We drove toward Gridley…the fairgrounds were on a 45mph stretch of highway just out of town Alyssia first with the Goats, Jenny next, me and minnow. Puppy in a carrier with Alyssia, her 2 dogs and her cat. jenny braked hard and veered to the right.
i saw a white form coming out of the trailer hit the pavement bounce hit the pavement again then roll to the side of the road. It got up. Stood a second then took off down the steep embankment. It was Onday. Jenny came running and i was running along the top of the embankment calling to her Onday, Onday….she ran A young woman , Alyssia's age and Energy came running as did a man from a truck. She yelled to Jenny to GO, help with the trailer, she would do this and she ran down the embankment, as did the man she ran behind Onday till she suddenly stopped and i said jump! she'll let you hold her and she did and i threw the Tay lead down to the man who put it on her. They made their way up and the young woman said we'll put her in your minivan. Ok and we did and i said something like….i cannot say, and she said she had had Goats and turned and left.
a couple weeks ago Jenny and her man did the CHECK on the trailer…tires, lights, Jenny's new divider gate to keep some first loaded from the rest if needed. Into that part we'd put Onday, LuckyStar , the old ones and Celia who has a chronic bum leg. i am known as someone who engages in catastrophic thinking. Which might be true, but also might not. I try to work with it. I let them do the readyness check. Did not question. Trusted. Did it occur to any of us to check the entire floor? No. and that single small part at the right corner of the front….went through.
within some moments Celia who had also fallen out was loaded in Jenny's car and Lucky Star was squashed with all the others in the back. Now standing room only. We drive. to the fairgrounds in Gridley which was enpty and quiet. Error. so we turned went back and drove to Camelot arriving well into the dark were everything was different but got signed in and the Goats unloaded and they made it clear, time for us go go away. They asked as i filled out the papers with names of each and gender, if any were injured and i said probably so they put Onday and Celia together. I got a call early next morning from the Vet who was there, the same really great and wonderful Vet, Sarah Lynn, of all other evacuations who remembered them, remembered us. She said she had checked Celia's leg fully and it appeared to be maybe arthritis or something similar and she had prescribed Meloxicam which they were starting. that we should ask for remaining pills when we left and then call her and she would continue to prescribe on going. I said….but Onday, Onday?????? she said with the exception of a few scrapes, Onday was
fine.
Snowbunny was jenny's first Goat. Onday and her two brothers Iko and Iko were the first kidding. I named them. Nancy…go to UTube and listen to Iko Iko Dixie Cups
This has turned my whole world around. I close my eyes and see it over and over, her falling, bouncing, falling bouncing on the pavement
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