I finally picked a name!
Her official registered name will be Freya's Needle.
Which... I know it
sounds like it has nothing to do with Dragon, but there was a long and winding mental road to get there. lol The initial suggestion from the BOs was "Dungeons and Dragonflies," and while that didn't quite work for me, I kind of ran with the dragonfly part. (I have all kinds of suggestions related to dragonflies, if anyone needs any!)
But nothing was really sticking. In desperation, I started googling things like "nicknames for dragonflies" and "gods associated with dragonflies." Which is how I found two things:
- The Norse goddess Freya is sometimes associated with dragonflies. She is also a goddess associated with war, along with fertility, beauty, and witchcraft.
- Some areas of the UK refer to dragonflies as "the devil's darning needles."
Her sire is Auraxium War. Her dam is Oubliette d'Acier - depending on translation, "steel dungeon" or "forgetfulness of steel" or "strength through forgetfulness."
And needles are steel, at least modern ones.
I was sitting there after reading that stuff and just kind of hit on "Freya's Needle" as an idea, and it just... didn't go away. So we're keeping it, and we're keeping Dragon as a barn name.
She is, as you can see, very impressed.
In other news, Cessa has already managed to lose one of her grazing muzzles so thoroughly that three of us searching the two pastures where it could be can't find it (which was today, and I hurt, and that's all I'm saying about that). We're basically gonna have to let the mower find it if it's in the north pasture, because if it's there, it's buried deep in the grass or in some hollow we can't see
because of the grass. It could also be in the pond in the main pasture. Who knows...
But it's okay. Vet's going to have us try some thyroid medication, and Cessa has to stay in the arena, getting a little hay and just enough ration balancer to take her meds until she
does start losing weight. (She's got a little bit of grass to chew on as well, since the arena has grass, but it's short and the vet said it's OK.)
...I may still have some Tile stickers coming from Amazon so that I can GPS tag the damned muzzles, though. lol
And in local health news, our dumbass governor has opened up the state "partially" and half the damned population is out acting like it's Spring Break. Second Quarantine is gonna be even worse than First Quarantine was, but I'm pretty sure it's gonna be a Thing. Ugh.
