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 [...]
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 [...]
This isn’t a current picture of the barn (I’m lazy you see), but imagine that where that garbage can and those bales are is my potting table. And between those and the front of the barn are the baskets of potatoes and pepper we harvested this year, waiting for us to figure out where to [...]
I keep thinking that I’m about to get back into the blogging swing, and then there’s yet more work to be done before we settle in for winter. This weekend and the next two should be the last big pushes with the end of canning and hopefully a break in the rain to put the [...]
We’ve let the horses back out on the pasture – mostly because having them full time in the barnyard was hard on us and them, and the grass is slowly coming back. They’re still getting hay to supplement to make sure they’re getting enough calories every day. So basically the two of them spend their [...]
This morning we got up at O-dark-thirty and packed our lunches, gulped some coffee, loaded the horses and headed for Stevens Pass with friends and their son. Our destination was Valhalla Lake, a challenging yet fun 6 miles from the Stevens Pass parking lot. Or so we thought…
Turns out there are some seriously exposed sections [...]