Twisted Pine Paints

12/05/2024

If you watch close you can see Misty’s baby give a few good kicks 🥰 she is the first one due in 2025

Misty’s kiddos are ALWAYS the most active babies inutero haha. I love sitting there feeling them bounce around while she eats her dinner 😍

12/03/2024

I have been MIA because my life is cursed 🫠. My dog (the border collie photo bomber in alot of my photos) has been extremely sick. He almost got put down last Thursday but when we went to say goodbye at the vet, he took a couple of treats and the vet wanted to keep fighting since he’s such a nice dog. Thankfully, he seems to be on the up and as long as we can get him eating he should recover 🤞🏻

Merlin also had some more complications due to the cold weather so he was back at the vet. He seems to be feeling much better on difreeent antibiotics.

Now Izzy. She somehow managed to gouge her eyeball over night and nearly ruptured it. She is at severe risk of losing the eye (horses live pretty easy without eyes) but we are trying to save it. If no improvement is seen by Monday, she will likely have it enucleated. (I’ll toss a photo of her eye in the comments for those who would like to see it)
So if you’re the kind to send healing vibes, please do. We could all use it over here 🤞🏻

11/30/2024

Hank dreams of being a stripper 🕺🏼

The blanket was fully intact, with every strap still done up and not caught on anything. He is just talented ✨

11/26/2024

Merlin wants to build a snowman, and has the carrot ready for its nose! ⛄️🥕

11/26/2024

This 👇🏻 while I do share a lot, I don’t share it all. This is definitely a labor of love ❤️

“You are so lucky ….you are spoiled… I am Jealous “

As breeders and horse owners. We don’t normally talk about the hard things in life. We normally won’t share how it feels to pull a mare through cancer… finally get one in foal… loose your favourite broodmare to a torn intestine while carrying your hopes n dreams…have one abort or when one colics…..We don’t talk about getting ready for something important and dropping everything to assist our animals….. even in your dress clothes
We don’t talk about the tears shed when we have to put a foal down due to complications..when it hardly got a chance at life…
All the late night and early morning mare checks and sleep deprivation…

We don’t share the hard parts where a mare looks to be having a miscarriage….But also colicing , and we have to decide to walk the mare to save her life …. Knowing full well it could terminate the pregnancy. But saving that mares life is more important than the baby you spent all the months planning and thousands of dollars to see on the heartbeat on the screen is now less important.

We don’t talk about emergencies that only seem to happen on holidays and middle of the nights. When we know vets are with their family’s or asleep. And the return call will come long after you’ve exhausted everything.

So when you see cute baby pictures in the spring , foals frolicking in the pastures. Just know there’s a lot that we don’t talk about that happened long before we could share those happy moments with you….

Grateful for this beautiful filly Georgia 😊
Sired by Shiners Got Swager and out of my NRHA money earning and producing daughter of Boogies Flashy Jac❤️❤️

11/25/2024

Someone is a gate opener.. and someone went for a neighbourhood stroll this morning… thankfully his little friends stayed put 😐

11/25/2024

Thank you Mountain Edge Designs for the beautiful flyer of my boy and some of his gorgeous kiddos 🥹🤎

11/24/2024

Ok my only complaint is doing chores in the dark 😂 I hate how dark and long winter is but the snow does really brighten things up, thankfully!

11/23/2024

Hello winter ☃️❄️🌨️

I’m not even going to pretend to be upset. We so badly need the moisture and snow makes everything look so clean and pretty! 😍

11/22/2024

The chronicles of Arnold the cat and his horseback riding adventures 😂
He scared the 💩 out of Merlin when he snuck up and jumped on him 😆

11/22/2024

Hank came and stole my glove from my coat pocket. I thought he was just going to play with it but then proceeded to try and EAT it 🤦🏼‍♀️

11/21/2024

Everyone is bundled up 🥶 bring on winter 🫣

11/21/2024

I can see this happening a lot in Hank’s future 😆

11/21/2024

If anyone knows about life not working out the way we plan, it’s me 🤍

Izzy, Butterscotch and Azora(who were going to be leased out) are back as circumstances changed. I can’t say I’m sad about it as I sure did miss them being here more than I realized I would.
It was dark by the time I got home, but they were happy and settling in again 🥰

Please don’t tell me “everything happens for a reason”. After the year I’ve had, I am extremely tired of hearing it and it isn’t true at all for everything my life throws at me 🙃

11/20/2024

I finally got around to sending off hair for Sally to be panel tested and colour tested 😆

She is 7 panel N/N

SW1/n
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It’s good to know, even if I don’t have plans to breed her at this time 🥰

11/20/2024

Merlin had a bit of a set back with his castration 👎🏻

Unfortunately he is an overachiever and healed to quickly, even with forced exercise multiple times a day. Yesterday I took him back to the vet and they had to reopen the incisions so that proper drainage can happen and he is now on antibiotics. He is feeling SO much better today already! 👍🏻

The vet said this happens as often as 1 in 20 castrations. Some just heal to fast no matter what you do, but after having it reopened they do great!

He isn’t the happiest about me being near him, and I can’t say I blame him 😳 but I’m glad I listened to my gut and took him in ❤️

11/20/2024

Boys being boys 🤪

11/19/2024

Tilly found my zipper 🤣