News

Well, lots has happened in the last week.  Most exciting of all is that Carla got a new horse!!!  He came on Christmas Eve day.  His name (which may be changed) is Tony, and he is an 8 year old, QH X Paint who is very smart and absolutely adorable.  He has been visiting Jazz and Scotty over the fence, and today he is out with them for the first time!  So far so good.  He seems to be low horse in the pecking order and Scotty has chased him a few times, but as you can see in the photo below, they shared hay!  The girls are in love with him, Starlight (meeting Tony in the photo to left) immediately went into heat, and she and Summer were arguing about who got to stand closest to him (over the fence) and they managed to take out the entire bottom line of fence!  I mean everything, handles, insulators, clips, and fence line!  Girls!!!

Other news is that we've finally got snow.  We had a storm Sunday into Monday that dumped about 18", but with high winds and frigid temps it was not really nice.  The horses stayed in for about 24 hours, and most had blankets on because the wind chills were as low as -20.  It's warming up now, most blankets are off and it may hit 40 by the weekend.  The nice thing is that the ground is now soft so all those ouchy feet are better.

We had a turkey invasion the day before the storm, they were all over the yard, fields, paddocks, driveway, there must have been at least 30 of them and the horses and dogs were all excited about it.   Maybe those birds knew the storm was coming???

Merry Christmas Everyone

 From:


Tapper





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News

Hey everyone, I have some really good news, but first I just have to tell you about something that happened the other day.  Mom and Auntie Carla were talking, and I heard Auntie Carla say that she thought mom should let someone else write the blog!!!  Can you believe it???  Mom set her straight pretty quick because really, I AM the lead mare - right?  And who else could do this?  Jazz or Scotty?  Come on, they're BOYS for goodness sake.  Becca may be able to do this in a few years, when she's settled in more, but I'm 17 years old and have lived here all my life, there really is no one who could do the job as well as me.  I just don't know, I always thought Auntie Carla liked me.....



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Jazz



Anyway, on to the good news.

We are all naked!!!  It's been so cold this month already that all us girls have had to wear our blankets, but it's a little warmer this weekend so mom took them all off and we get to run around naked until it gets cold again.  I mean, the blankets are nice, and they keep us toasty warm, but there is nothing like rolling naked in the snow on a nice sunny day...

This is some of us, with and without our blankets.

More good news is that mom hung up our Christmas stockings!  That means treats and goodies for us all.  I know most horses share their stockings with their people - so some of the stuff inside isn't actually for the horses, but I guess that's ok because there is always plenty for me!  Just a reminder...  I like most kinds of horsey treats, vanilla wafers, nature valley honey oat granola bars, and of course apples and carrots.  Mom asked me to tell you not to put apples and carrots in the stockings though, because they freeze.  Make sure anything you put in won't be bothered by freezing.  Oh, she also reminded me to tell you NOT to buy us those Apple Wafer treats, she won't let us have them because they are so easy to choke on.  I remember Sundance choking on one years ago and I'd just as soon not go through that thanks!

 

Summer "S'up?"

 

 Sassy checking out the camera.

We had a new horse come yesterday.  His name is Chance, I've met him before because he used to come visit sometimes.  He's only staying for a month, while his mom is home on school vacation.  Too bad really, he's cute!  This is Chance, tall, chestnut, and handsome...  who could ask for more?

Barn Buddies

Hi Everyone!  It's me - Tapper - reporting again...

 I'm good, not great because my feet have been sore.  The ground is frozen and lumpy and it's hard on my sensitive, tender little feet.  Once we get a little more snow to soften things up I should be fine.  A couple of the other horses have been a little ouchy too, but none as bad as me.  Of course I'm still beautiful, and still the boss, and they'd better not forget it!  This is me with Becca.  She's my best friend and is usually hanging around pretty close to me.  Sometimes I'll even let her share my hay (I'm such a nice friend).

Dolly and Sassy are buddies too.  They get along pretty well - at least as well as Dolly gets along with anyone, she can be SUCH a grump!

Another buddy pair is Starlight and Summer.  Considering they didn't get along at all at first, I'm happy that they've worked things out.  Starlight is still bossy with Summer, but Summer doesn't pay that much attention to her...

 Of course Jazz and Scotty have been pals forever.  This is Scotty watching over sleepy Jazz while I watch over sleepy Becca.

Mom is happy that the new house beast gets along with the others.  I guess his name is Joey, I've only seen him a couple of times because he doesn't come to the barn very often.  I know Rosy of course, she's at the barn every day.  Then there's a smaller one named Echo.  Anyway, I guess they are all pals now.  This photo shows how well Joey and Rosy share.