A Horse Called Moon

We've had a bad couple of days around here.  Rae's great Moonshine horse died yesterday-very suddenly.  Poor Moon and poor Rae!  The sad thing is that Rae had just decided the day before to go ahead and try out for Rodeo Royalty.  She had originally decided she needed to work with Moon more and get them both whipped into shape this summer.  Because she broke her elbow last summer, she wasn't able to ride much and she and Moon both needed more time.
Well anyway, she just decided to go ahead and try for it anyway this year and called Grandpa Barry to see if he would bring Moon up to our house the next day so they could get started.  The next afternoon when Grandpa was supposed to bring her up, he called instead saying she was sick and he wouldn't be bringing her.  His next call was - I'm taking her to the vet - come and meet me.  They did tests and tried to figure out what was going on until late into the night.  No answers really.  The next morning she was gone at about 9:30 - after another visit to the vet and realizing there was no hope.  She had bad stomach stuff going on - they called it Colitis X (x meaning they really have no way of knowing exactly what nasty bug decided to attack her from the inside).  90 - 100% of horses that get this die.   How sad.
I started looking at iphoto for pictures of Moon to post - and realized just how many there are!!  Definitely more than there are of me or Kelly!
Looking at these pictures made me so sad!  Everyone knows I'm not a huge animal lover - but I LOVE RAE, and I love Moon for being such a good friend to Rae.  They had some great times.
So here's a few pictures remembering Moon and the fun times she and Rae had --