Pax: “Mum, you are STILL on the couch?!? To be honest…this is very boring for me. Very inconveniencing.“ *Sighs deeply while making direct eye contact* 🙄😂 Pax is such a lovely boy, but you mess with his outside runs, he will let you know 😂

Hi lovely people, I caught a bug and need to cancel the community call tomorrow, Wednesday 12.8. Thank you for understanding. Much love, Birdy 💛

I need to step away from most of my social platforms for a while. Prepping to move away from Tasmania is proving to be a considerably more difficult journey than anticipated and I'm finding myself slipping into a burnout spiral. Today I am forced to sell my older pony, and it's weighing extremely heavy. Everything I currently know, and have worked for is being sorted through, packed up, sold or left behind. The last 26 years of my life stripped bare. I know this needs to happen to move forward to create a bigger brighter future and a better life, but it is brutally confronting and exhausting on so many levels. There is nobody here to help and I have to navigate this task alone. My dogs keep me grounded, and so far this community has kept me sane. But right now contributing to yet another platform is leaving me far too drained. I must away to fully submerge deep in PAWS, I will sit in on community calls when I can and will read but not post. My inbox is always open. Big love x

Remembering how good it feels to hug my daughter, the dogs being very happy to see me, but one earned a struggle cuddle first…… she’s now tucked into bed with me and her doggie bro. My OWN bed!!! SO happy…… I just had to share my joy! ❤️💕

So we have really heavy winds at the moment. So strong, that you don't want to stand under gum trees and you can't hear each other talking, you would have to yell. You also shelter your eyes at times. This is quite normal for us on top of the mountain, especially in winter. Pax had ants in his pants this morning and we decided to go outside and brace the wind. You can have weather like this for 1-2 weeks, so you adapt and learn to adjust. Pax was so keen to explore the property for the latest sniff emails (there is a new girl dog in the neighbours yard who often escapes and leaves her pee emails everywhere 😆), that he took off like a rocket. And because I was wrapped up in so many clothes and 2 hoodies, the wind making it hard to see, I couldn't see him all of a sudden. Couldn't spot his fox red tail wagging in the bush. And then the glimmer came: I knew he would come back, without me having to call him as I doubted my voice would travel much in the wind. Pax just naturally checks in regularly and comes back. That's our rhythm on the property. He can run around like a maniac, but he checks in. And I was so calm about it as I just trusted him. And like clock work, he came back a few moments later. And that was such a lovely glimmer of connection and trust. And we both smiled at each other when reunited in the crazy wind.