Pursley's Valley Stable

10/18/2022

My sweet girl, Ginger.

10/18/2022

09/16/2022

Snickers, This handsome little guy makes me smile everyday. Cute? Right!

08/11/2022

This pony found his place to hang out. Marc worked hard on getting him up in place.

07/26/2022

F A C T S

06/26/2022

My new friend, I get to see this guy,, where I work.

06/22/2022

YEP.

03/19/2022

Barn of the day. A beautiful green barn.for St. Patrick's day! I love the stone foundation. ❤ I hope someone fixes the roof so it will be around for many more years.
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03/03/2022

Barn of the day. Old barns and sunfowers... two of my favorite things. This would be a dream for me to have an old barn and a field of sunflowers. 🌻
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03/02/2022

Barn of the day. Even abandoned, overgrown and forgotten...this barn is absolutely beautiful to me. ❤
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02/28/2022

~~~~ My Farmhouse Love ~~~~

Crystal Blue Sky Love . . .

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." ~Leo Buscaglia

02/28/2022

Barn of the day. I have had this picture saved forever. I found it on Pinterest but it didn't have a link so I have no idea where it is...but it's one if my absolute favorites. ❤ I've always been fascinated with round barns and this one is just gorgeous. I would love to renovate it into my home and have the whole loft area as my painting studio. Some people dream of mansions...I dream about 100 year old barns. Lol.

02/27/2022

~~ My Farmhouse Love ~~

Big Beautiful Red Barns Love . . . . This ones got it all

02/24/2022

~~ My Farmhouse Love ~~
Good Morning Farmhouse Friends . . . coffees on and the donuts are rising. Stop by if you have time and visit.

"Rise up. Start fresh. See the bright opportunity in each new day."
~ Unknown

02/22/2022

Barn of the day. Absolutely beautiful. I have dreamed about turning an old barn into my home since I was a teenager. This one would be perfect. Maybe someday. ❤
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11/07/2021

Pictures from this Summer
Little Quarter Horse, I O

11/01/2021

Almost, had an amazing photo of Mia. Then there's Cody. 😋

08/24/2021

Jolene's new color, mud.

08/14/2021

My girl, Ginger.
Morning ride with
Michele, (and Chey)

08/01/2021

He's not mine, but I'm calling him Indy, short for Independence. At a month old, he doesn't care about wondering far from mom, so very independent.
The black horse is not his mother, but another horse (yearling Aloria).

07/26/2021

The nursery is filling up, with babies. DeeDee,
mare with baby c**t (one month old), and
Aloria (yearling filly).
Another 6 month old c**t, coming soon.

07/26/2021

Brianna welcomes her new little girl, Aloria, a yearling, Dutch Harness Horse.

06/11/2021

A couple of cute old girls.
Trixie and Penny

06/11/2021

Best photobomb ever!! 😂😂😂

📸: Kim Supko Photography

*This picture was taken at a 9/11 Hero Run in Norristown, PA

06/06/2021

Mia and Steppin, never too far from each other, best friends.

06/06/2021

Finding this little fawn, driving big red, And making hay, for happy ponies.

06/05/2021

Smoky was found in a foxhole in New Guinea in Feb 1944. The American thought she must have been a Japanese soldier's dog, but when he took her to a POW camp, they found out she didn't understand commands in Japanese of English. The soldier sold Smoky to Cpl. William Wynne of Cleveland OH for 2 dollars Australian.

Over the next two years Wynne carried Smoky in his backpack, fought in the jungles of Rock Island and New Guinea, flew 12 air/sea rescue, She survived 150 air raids on New Guinea and made it through a typhoon at Okinawa, made a combat jump in Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, in a parachute made for her. She would warn G.I's of incoming artillery and was dubbed the "angel from a foxhole."

Early in retaking the Philippines combat engineers were setting up a telegraph line to an airfield. The joints collapsed filling them in with sand. Cpl. Wynne knew that Smoky could climb through the pipe with a new line and that is what she did. Smoky's work saved approximately 250 ground crewmen from having to move around and keep operational 40 fighters and reconnaissance planes, while a construction detail dug up the taxiway, placing the men and the planes in danger from enemy bombings. What would have been a dangerous three-day digging task to place the wire was instead completed in minutes.

In her down time she preformed tricks with the Special Services to improve the moral of the troops and visited hospitals in Australia and Korea. Visiting with the sick and wounded, she became the first recorded "therapy dog".

After the war she became a sensation back int the states, had a live TV show, and often visited Veterans hospitals. Smoky's work as a therapy dog continued for 12 years. Wynne had Smokey 14 years before she passed away. He buried her in a 30 caliber ammo box in Rocky River Reservation, Ohio.

Smoky, the smallest war hero weighing in at 4 lbs even and standing 7 inches tall.

Pictures copyrighted by William A. Wynne (1996) and used by permission.

Read the book "Yorkie Doodle Dandy" (1996) by William Wynne!