Seriously, Travis has the longest face ever. I’m not sure how he functions without his bottom lip dragging on the ground all of the time! He’s using all but one hole on his bridle…
This is his worried face. He makes it any time he’s not sure what’s happening or how he should react. We call [...]
We had sun last Sunday and in honor of the occasion I let the boys onto the lowest pasture (we put up cross fencing early this spring) and let them tromp around in the wet to eat some long grass. I went out in the afternoon to try to get some garden pictures and got [...]
Ever just get an impulse? I had one Monday night while looking at a horse. After two that have failed vet checks and had to go home, I decided to just risk it and buy a horse with no checks or guarantees because I just knew he was the one. Meet Travis, the strangely painted [...]
Cody's First Day at The Hennery
Sometime Friday Cody twisted something deep inside his gut. He was the same old Cody when I checked the horses at 10pm on that night, stoic to the end, but went downhill sometime later on. By the time we realized that he was colicing on Saturday morning it was [...]
This weekend was enough to make us think that spring had come to Seattle. But alas, it’s just a bit of nice weather that will be replaced by rain again later this week.
We worked on the bathroom a bit this weekend, but we also just got out and enjoyed the sun. I pulled some winter [...]
Aunts Betsy, Susie & me with Peanuts the Pony
As far back as I can remember there were ponies. First there was Peanuts our shetland pony. He lived in the barn with crazy white Qeony and her spotted sons Travis, Blaze and Shane.
At age 7, after what I can only assume was much asking, I [...]
Apparently Cody has an aversion to his right front shoe – or at least to wearing it for longer than 7 weeks at a time. This is the second shoe job in a row that he’s pulled his right shoe off two weeks before he was due to have it replaced anyway. He did a [...]