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???