Wow – who would have guessed, I’m on it two days in a row? Patrick is watching the Stanley cup Playoff games – game 7 actually (that’s Hockey we are talking about in case you do not know!)…. so since I’m a proud owner of a laptop, I usually sit on my corner of the couch and catch up on mail and other things (Blog for instance LOL) – ever since the first week of February we have had the most wonderful weather – EVER! Wow. In the beginning we were afraid to mention it…. afraid that it might turn cold again… we didn’t even put our winter jackets away till this week, just cause we didn’t think we could be that lucky! But the weather we’ve been able to enjoy since early February has just been unbelievable. We are still able to sleep with open windows (no a/c), even though some of the neighboring dogs make it less enjoyable at times (barking all night) – but that also gives us a chance to keep up to date with the coyote population… if it’s not the dogs in the neighborhood, it’s the coyotes roaming the fields at night. Foaling season started off well… we have gotten more mares in than last year, but not back up to our prev. years… but at least we could up the number this year again… so far so good…. other than the leg issues we deal with every so often all went well – so far! … We are not done yet. We have one more mare here that needs to foal and another one we need to pick up to foal. That should be it for this season. We’ve gotten quite a few horses in from the recent TB sales (the last one being a two-year old in training sale) and are full to the brim at this point. Too bad those are all temporary horses and not full-time boarders… but then the upside is that our pastures are able to recuperate through the Summer. The Lord willing we will pick up in the Fall where we leave off in the Summer…. I’ve been so fortunate to be able to train with my horse Scooter a lot on cattle this year and to show a lot… but more on that in another post… yeah… I promise, I AM getting y’all updated… just not all in one post! But here are some pictures!
now we have a real ‘kindergarten’ out in the field. So much fun to watch them play!
We also have had several torrential rains already – with the heat we’ve been having we do need it, but it’s always impressive how it can come down… wow!
