Donations
If you would like to make a donation, a PayPal account has been set up in the name of Eleanor Lorden (dreamscapeacres@yahoo.ca). If you'd rather mail a cheque, please email me for the address.
Thank you!
A very big thank you to Celine at Forest Lane Horse Stables, Jen at Aspen Creek Stables, and Christine at Forever Green Stables, Trevor in Crysler, and Kirk and Lorraine in Casselman. All have taken one, two or three horses or cows to live at their farms until we can rebuild.
Thank you very much, too, to those strangers, friends and family members who made financial contributions. Every penny will go towards the new barn and continuing our horse rescue efforts.
Thank you, too, to the Ottawa Sun for featuring us in an article in Thursday's paper, Ottawa Citizen (online news), the Jewel 107.7's Drive Home commentary, and to CTV's Karen Solomon (and the nice camera man, John) for filming a story on us for today's 6 pm news on CJOH.
A special thank you goes out to Horse World for their generous offer to replace the essentials and to set up a donation box for other items.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
After the fire
From the back porch, this morning - about 5 am. The fire fighters brought seven fire trucks and did their best to save what they could.
The fire fighters saved the tack room and the hitching post.
The backhoe came from Casselman Cement. It was used to dig through the wreckage so the fire fighters could thoroughly soak any hot spots.
The hay is ruined. It didn't all burn, but it's soaked and smoky. Some of it is still smouldering.
Serge's hitching post survived - the fire fighters tried to pull it out by hand and then with the backhoe, but it's still here.
The pile of ruined hay. We had 800 bales of good horse hay in the loft at the end of September. Some of it had been fed, but there were still 650-700 bales up there.
The tack room, hitching post and the dog run that we used for the chickens all survived. The shingles on the tack room are scorched and melted, as is the solar panel on the side of the tack room (Christmas lights inside the tack room).
As it grew dark again this evening, the lights in the tack room came on. Despite the heat and damage, the solar panel is still powering the lights.
The fire fighters saved the tack room and the hitching post.
The backhoe came from Casselman Cement. It was used to dig through the wreckage so the fire fighters could thoroughly soak any hot spots.
The hay is ruined. It didn't all burn, but it's soaked and smoky. Some of it is still smouldering.
Serge's hitching post survived - the fire fighters tried to pull it out by hand and then with the backhoe, but it's still here.
The pile of ruined hay. We had 800 bales of good horse hay in the loft at the end of September. Some of it had been fed, but there were still 650-700 bales up there.
The tack room, hitching post and the dog run that we used for the chickens all survived. The shingles on the tack room are scorched and melted, as is the solar panel on the side of the tack room (Christmas lights inside the tack room).
You can see the melted and scorched shingles - but the roof is intact and we saved all the stuff that was inside the tack room.
As it grew dark again this evening, the lights in the tack room came on. Despite the heat and damage, the solar panel is still powering the lights.
Thank you
Thank you to all the generous friends, neighbours and strangers who have offered places for the horses and ponies to stay while we clean up, and to those who have donated cash, blankets, halters and lead ropes, and to all those who have offered labour when we can rebuild. You've all made this bleak day much brighter!
Serenity, Firecracker and Breezy are now at Forest Lane in North Gower with Celine, Soul will be going to Jen Pretty's place, and Classy will go to Forever Green this week. Lori has the healthy surviving chickens in her coop. I still have three chickens here in intensive care.
Thank you, too, to Serge at the Embrun Rona - Co-op for finding a couple of fence chargers for me at a very reasonable price - and for the "fire sale" discount on the rest of my purchases today. We're trying to stretch every penny right now and put aside what we can to put towards the rebuilding fund.
Devastation
Our barn burned to the ground this morning. I called mom to let her know it was burning at 5 am. A man driving by the farm banged on our door to let us know - and I called 911.
As I write this, the firefighters are working hard to save the tack and feed room.
That means that we lost most of our blankets, all our carefully stored small square bales of hay, a few saddles, grooming gear, and all but one of our fence chargers.
Since most of our fences are electric, that means we're scrambling this morning to find alternate places for the geldings and the cows (their fields used the barn as part of the fencing), and to replace the fence chargers. If you have a spare solar fence charger, we'd love to have it until we can get a few more. If you have fence boards and fence posts, we'll take those, too.
The only good thing about this is that there were NO horses in the barn last night. It was mild, so they are all outside.
If you can help with a donation of equipment or cash, it will be gratefully appreciated.
As I write this, the firefighters are working hard to save the tack and feed room.
That means that we lost most of our blankets, all our carefully stored small square bales of hay, a few saddles, grooming gear, and all but one of our fence chargers.
Since most of our fences are electric, that means we're scrambling this morning to find alternate places for the geldings and the cows (their fields used the barn as part of the fencing), and to replace the fence chargers. If you have a spare solar fence charger, we'd love to have it until we can get a few more. If you have fence boards and fence posts, we'll take those, too.
The only good thing about this is that there were NO horses in the barn last night. It was mild, so they are all outside.
If you can help with a donation of equipment or cash, it will be gratefully appreciated.
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