my crew

Here is a pic of my critters a couple days ago- lol obviously not New Year's Day but Ive since fixed the date on my camera. From left to right- Twista (sorrel paint) Dusty (gray arab) Cimmaron (bay) Sierra (bay paint) Kazam (bay roan mini) and Pheonix (buckskin dun). The only horse not in the photo is Blue, who was at the feeder.
         Buckley, my buckskin QH, is sadly no longer with us. In April her battle with cancer was too much for her and we had to do the humane thing, she is buried on a hill overlooking the farm and her horsebarn. So it has been a rather weird spring in light of that. I hope to now have more time to spend with my crew now that I'm no longer working in town. So far I've gotten a few saddles cleaned, oiled and waterproofed but still have alot of stuff to go thru. I need a better tack storage solution so havta build something I think.

Dusty training...

is ending at Ray's. Today's the day he comes home to be my handful lol...

Finally!!!

Finally finally made it to Yello River again for a campout this weekend. A short adventure due to the rain forecast. But we had perfect weather for riding on Sat and early this am before eating breakfast and loading back up, rain hit just as we were driving back. I took Pheonix and she did very well. I rode her last weekend after her refresher course and this weekend she was very good. Full of energy of course, and we had a big spook at the beginning of the first ride but I stuck thru it and on we went. I wish I couldve stayed longer and been able to take some pics but had left the camera behind. By today's ride she was nearly perfect and acting like she'd done it for years and no more worrying about things from yesterday's ride. Hoping to go again on my next weekend off...

Training

It has been awhile so here's an update! Dusty has been at the trainer Ray's for 2 weeks now and doing wonderfully. He's a little more high-strung than my others, due to his arab-ness lol, but he's coming along. Last night I took Pheonix there for a refresher course before she gets ridden. What a sucky year, nobody of mine has been ridden yet cuz work has been so fricken nuts. But I'm hoping to at least get some time in before snow flies! Pheonix remembered everything so tomorrow I plan to ride her on a trail ride there and then bring her home. Gearing for a weekend away- hopefully next week- of nothing but me & her and time in the woods with nothing else to think about but where we *finally* are....

some fun pics

Me & Sierra

here they come!

Left to right: Dusty, Blue, Sierra, Pheonix, Cimmaron

Pheonix,Twista, Blue & Buckley