February 22nd, 2010

Windchill lays and thinks

Windchill spent a lot of time listening – and thinking. We would wonder what was running through his mind as he lay there with a fully functioning brain and intellect and a body that couldn’t respond to its commands.

When I would sit out there and lay his head in my lap during my shifts with him I read him business magazines. Windchill was well-versed in how to start or run a business after a couple of days. I found I needed that as a way to distract myself from the intensely bitter cold, even the blankets we had for us out there didn’t keep the insidious cold from entering our bodies down into our bones. Plus I think Windchill liked being read to – he liked being talked to but being a guy, there’s only so long I can carry on a conversation – hence Windchill’s education by Entrepreneur and Businessweek!

Windchill sleeps in

Blankets were rotated each day, and Windchill himself was turned over every couple of hours and the straw was cleaned, hay was freshened, he was held up usually by pushing your knees under his shoulder and neck so that he could drink and munch on the special mix that was recommended by the experts we were working with at the time.

February 22nd, 10:05am: Sorry, our internet was down this morning. I fell asleep last night typing the update below and can’t remember what I was trying to say so sorry if it was incoherent babbling. KARE-11 out of the Twin Cities is coming this morning to meet the little guy, I’m hoping he does more of the talking. Because we haven’t been paying any attention inside the house – we ran out of fuel oil. BBBRRRR. I’m going outside to warm up (it’s warmed up out there to 0F). Hope the oil company
comes this AM! Here’s the latest news in the Duluth News-Tribune:

Article in DNT on February 22nd (link no longer works)

Unfortunately I’ve used up all the bandwidth and memory space on the server I host my website. I’m working with a friend to see if her company will at least host the videos for us to open up some additional space. The hosting company said they won’t shut the site down for all the bandwidth, they’ll work with us to make it affordable which was a big relief.

Windchill wakes up with his red blanket

The towel or blanket under Windchill’s head was intended to try and protect his eyes from the hay as he moved his head around. When he was really tired it would work, when he was restless – not so much…