horse
My pretty little pony
Just living the dream…of every 6 year old girl.
Couldn’t take another day of Beautiful’s snarly mane so I spent the morning braiding it. 1-1/2 hours unsnarling (Really makes amazing curlicue dreads. It looked kind of cool, but was truly just poor hygiene); 1/2 hour braiding. I had to hold myself back not … Continue reading
Animal Anarchy
It’s really been a tumultuous few months with the animals. Battles being waged, injuries sustained and sometimes worse.
You know already of the war between the dogs and cats which to my utter dismay the dogs are winning so I won’t go into detail on that. I fear this is an ongoing battle.
We also … Continue reading
A girl and her horse
Ta-da! Today for the first time, I sat on Beautiful. I can’t really say I rode her; it was more like a pony ride. We did put the bridle on and she took it fine. Although, I would really like to introduce her to a bitless bridle. Baby steps…must stay focused. I got up on … Continue reading
Horse Tricks
So the horses, Beautiful and Brutus, have been here several weeks now. They seem to have settled right in with the rest of the menagerie. The large pasture is now covered in large mounds of horse poop. Good: lots of manure for compost. Not so good: the large pasture … Continue reading
Here a horse…there a horse
We did it! We got a horse! Actually 2 horses, but 1 will probably go to another home in the summer. And actually, we didn’t do much to get them except say “yes!” We got a call that a couple needed to get rid of their horses. They couldn’t care … Continue reading