The Adventures of Odey, the Orange Giraffe Pony

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Now I have a little bit of Odin with me everywhere I go 🍊🦒🐎❤️ Earrings, necklace and ring with his tail from my husband at Christmas 🎄 # #

I still miss you every second of every day. I still can’t believe you’re no longer here, I keep expecting you to shout for me when you hear my voice or to be stalking me from across the paddock or the barn wall like you always did. I was blessed to have had you here, if only for a relatively short time. I can still feel the strength of the love and understanding we had for each other. You will always have my heart ❤️ Odin. 🍊 🦒 🐎

The most beautiful soul 🍊🦒🐎❤️

Odin - A Horse of Mine (a variation of Edgar Albert Guest’s 1930’s poem, A Child of Mine), so whilst I cannot claim it is mine, I have replaced the word “child” with “horse” because it resonates with Odin’s passing and the feeling of losing the other half of me 💔🦒🍊🐎

“I'll lend you for a little time, a horse of mine, He said. For you to love while he lives, and mourn for when he is dead. It may be six or seven years, or twenty-two or three, But will you, till I call him back, take care of Odin for me? He will bring his charms to gladden you, and shall his stay be brief, You'll have his lovely memories as solace for your grief. I cannot promise he will stay, since all from earth return, But there are lessons taught down there I want Odin to learn. I've searched the wide world over in my search for a teacher true. And from the throngs that crowd life's lanes, I have selected you. Now will you give him all of your love, nor think the labor vain? Nor hate me when I come to call, to take him back again? I fancied that I heard you say, Dear Lord, thy will be done, For all the joys this horse will bring, the risk of grief I'll run! I'll shelter him with tenderness, I'll love him while I may, And for the happiness I've known, I will forever grateful stay. But shall the angels call for him much sooner than I planned, I'll brave the bitter grief that comes, and try to understand”.

I don’t quite know how to find the words to say it, but this afternoon I lost my best friend, my soul mate, my whole world. There were so many ongoing issues, which I always fought my hardest with but it was a nasty bout of laminitis and rotation of the pedal bone to the point of no return that brought so much pain and I had to make the hardest decision. I don’t want to talk about it and I need to process it for myself, but I know many people have been wondering about him and he captured so many hearts.

🍊🦒🐎Odin - I’m not quite sure at the moment, how to navigate through life and the world without you in it. A piece of my heart and my soul left me the moment you left this world. You will always have my heart - my heart horse and my reason for being alive. People always say how lucky you were to have me - but I was so very lucky to have had you in my life; you found me when I needed you the most and I never looked back. You taught me more about myself than anyone or anything else ever did or could. You made me a better person and I grew in so many ways because of you. From the moment we met there was a connection like no other I’ve ever felt before and never will I again. I always promised I would do everything I could for you, took you in with eyes wide open - you would always be with me and I believe that is where you will stay, right beside me in everything I do. So, I will not say goodbye, I will ask that you sleep well, rest for now until we meet again. 🍊🦒🐎💔

🍊🦒🐎 on the gallops! Me screeching like a 10 year old banshee! Normal for a Tuesday night! 🤣😂🤣❤️