After less than 20 rides total over 3 months and only 2 weeks of trying, Mitch had 2 clean changes this morning and NO drama! Thank you Kellie Hart for your kind and tactful training. Mitch LOVES you or he wouldn’t be working this hard for you.
It’s been exactly a month since we’ve had any precipitation and that was 10 inches of snow. Hoping this lasts for a bit.
I can’t believe it! They’re back!!! Always makes me think of spring when the Sandhill Cranes come back.
But here’s Patrick first thing this morning to finish the job. Too many customers yesterday!
Mitch stands so oddly I’m often confused as to why I put his boots on backwards.
Mitch’s new treat ball. It had one lousy inverted hole the treats got hung up on inside and frustrated the heck out of him. I added two more and now it entertains him for a while.
Warm enough for a wooly bear to come out!
When you are a wienie about the cold weather even though you have a warm blanket with a neck cover and you’ve been standing inside your run out stall all day. Your kind owner takes you in the indoor and lets you play.
The sound of the ice breaking up as we’ve gotten above freezing. I thought it was dripping off the trees at first!
So, the last couple days I’ve been watching this happen where half the turkeys are inside the pasture the other half are outside and the turkeys inside cannot figure out how to get to the flock on the outside. I want to ask “you guys can fly, right? “
Our place seems to be THE place to stop on the migration south.
I don’t know why our farm & woods have been such a favorite gathering area for crows the last few years.
This doesn’t do justice to the volume of these crows...we could hear them in the house with the TV on. I’m not sure what it is about the farm that’s so appealing.
This video is Allegra in a nutshell. She has been volatile, then willing for the 26 of her 31 years I was privileged to spend with her. In the past four years I almost lost her to colic twice, treated her for Cushing’s disease and the seizures that seemed to be associated with it. Seizures became more and more severe over the past two months and medication only helped to a degree. Bad days have come closer and closer together, but now she won’t have any more bad days. My thanks to Dr. Patterson, pathologist at MSU, for his interest in the reason for her seizures and his generosity in performing a necropsy.
Crazy number of crows behind the arena this morning!
Welcome Gitano! So happy for Blake Jamison Williams
The visitor coming out of my feed room this morning. I've seen so many all around the farm the last few days.
Mitch missed his bucket SO much! This is his way of telling me "more treats please!"
Probably the most unique of any horse sculpture-type gift I've ever gotten. What fun and a limited edition signed and everything!