Pilgrimage of Peace

24/08/2024

We thoroughly enjoyed a peaceful mosey on the trails this afternoon. 🤎🐴

22/08/2024

“Two wonders here that I confess
My worth and my unworthiness.
My value fixed, my ransom paid
At the cross

I rejoice in my Redeemer,
Greatest treasure, wellspring of my soul.
I will trust in Him, no other
My soul is satisfied in Him alone.”

{Keith & Kristyn Getty}

21/08/2024

I just love taking care of the horses.🤎

Their water tank got a good scrub this morning and they thoroughly enjoyed the fresh, cool water.

20/08/2024

I think we found the most peaceful time to enjoy the park in the summertime in a tourist town. 🤎 Tuesday mornings for the win! It was so nice to meet up with friends for an hour and play with the kids.

Now it’s back to work homemaking and tending to the barn chores.
What a beautiful day the Lord has blessed us with.

20/08/2024

“Teach me to live, that I may dread
The grave as lit­tle as my bed.
Teach me to die, that so I may
Rise glo­ri­ous at the judg­ment day.”

~Exerpt from Tallis Canon by Thomas Ken 1674

{Pictured with our rescue mare, Comet, and our Lilly Girl’s beautiful keepsake tail hair bracelet around my wrist.} Horse North Rescue

19/08/2024

Hello, Shelby Road Stables friends!!!
Jessica here with a life update and big announcement!
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If you’ve been following us for the last several years, you know that we enjoyed a beautiful season of horse boarding and horse fostering through the wonderful Horse North Rescue. Although we enjoyed those things very much and might foster again someday, we found life was getting far too busy. We made the decision to sell part of the farm in 2023 and focus solely on our own horses and spending more time with our family.
No regrets!
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We never imagined some of the trials that would try to consume our family and steal our joy and our peace over this past year. For the sake of our privacy, I will not be sharing specifics, but our faith was tried and tested as one trial heaped onto another. There was a moment I was sitting in my living room crying and broken and the thoughts in my head were, “If I could just go home, everything would be ok.” I felt so childish! Especially since I was sitting in my own home! But the Lord took those thoughts and showed me how true they actually were. Someday I WILL go to my heavenly home and everything will be ok.🤎

Until that beautiful and glorious day, I am on a pilgrimage. I have a choice HOW I will pilgrimage to my heavenly home.

I choose Jesus. I choose joy. I choose to cling to my faith. I choose to live my life with a heavenly perspective.

I am choosing a Pilgrimage of Peace.

It is an internal peace from my Heavenly Father that external circumstances cannot steal away.

With that, I believe it is time for this page to make a shift. Although we will always be Shelby Road Stables, it’s time for a new name here.

~Pilgramage of Peace~

I’ll also be adding some new content.

You’ll still the horses regularly, especially little Shelby🤎, but I’ll be adding other content that represents a peaceful pilgrimage for me and for my family.

I hope you all stick around and enjoy this social media shift with us! I pray it encourages you and points you to our Lord and Savior who gives the only true peace.

“Peace I leave with you; Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.” John 14:27

13/08/2024

Shelby is doing MUCH better with Eve’s extra special care. ❤️ Her appetite continues to improve and her fever has been gone (with meds) since yesterday morning. Eve has been such a great helper to me as I continue to administer medication and monitor Shelby’s temperature.

13/08/2024

Shelby gave us a bit of scare over the weekend with a fever and lack of appetite. We still aren’t fully sure of the cause, but with excellent care from our wonderful veterinarian, meds, soft food, extra cuddles with Eve, and time, she seems to be on the upswing. ❤️

We know how much our community loves this special filly and would ask for your prayers for continued healing for her.

28/07/2024

We thoroughly enjoyed a surprise ride with friends (and former boarders) this afternoon!! It was great to hang out with Mary and Jess and Sparkles and Pudden again. Welcome back to the farm!! Come back and visit us again soon! 🤎🐴

24/07/2024

Beautiful evening. 🧡

23/07/2024

Nothing better than a drink of fresh, cool water on a hot summer’s day. 🤎

16/07/2024

We were extra blessed with schedules lining up for a longer trail ride on this beautiful, cool morning! The horses were full of personality and had such a fun time right along with us. 🤎🐴

15/07/2024

Shelby had a sweet little helper with her fly mask this morning! 🤎 Eve always wants to make sure the horses are taken care of.

14/07/2024

That was so much fun. 🤎 We are beyond blessed with these special equines and beautiful trails.

06/07/2024

The trails got some much needed maintenance today! Of course we had to check out the end result with an evening ride! 🐎

03/07/2024

What a beauty at our favorite rescue! ❤️

Her story is so reminiscent of our sweet Lilly (Charlotte) who we fostered and then adopted through this amazing organization.

Chloe - Available for adoption, fee waived to an appropriate home

Sweet Chloe is looking for her hero!

Chloe is a beautiful, 21 year old Quarter Horse with a silly streak and an adorable and expressive face. She has had a tough life in the years prior to coming to Horse North rescue, living with a muscular condition that was not being properly managed and we suspect pushed into some hard riding in her youth, while still battling the pain of her condition, which amounts to something similar to muscular dystrophy in humans.

As a result, Chloe has an old injury and arthritis in her left front fetlock, which sadly has retired this girl from riding in her golden years. However, with proper management, our vet feels she still has quality of life enjoying her days in a pasture and she still has so much love to give to the right person.

If you have the ability to give this girl a family, we are certain she will give you something special in return, as has been the case with all of our beloved older horses, whether they were able to continue under saddle or not (just talk to Shelby Road Stables about Lilly Charlotte if you want to hear about the joy that can come from an older pasture pet!!)

Chloe's management is for a condition called PSSM, which is an inability of the muscles to properly process glycogen. It cannot be cured, only managed. She requires low starch and sugar feed, constant turnout (absolutely no stalling), good nutrition, specific supplementation of particularly magnesium and vitamin E, daily Equioxx for her arthritis, and warm blanketing in the cooler months to keep those muscles comfortable. We will have further detailed information regarding Chloe's management for any potential adopters.

If you are interested at all in Chloe, get in touch and come meet her, we promise she will touch your heart.

To learn more about the adoption process or to download an application, visit:

http://www.horsenorthrescue.org/adopt

If you are already an approved adopter with HNR and wish to be considered as a home for Chloe, be sure to either call, email, or message the page to officially let our board members know.

29/06/2024

Tuesday morning’s storms sure were intense!
The animals were not fans (neither were we!), but they made it through just fine.

We definitely had some trees come down in the woods! We were hit more mildly than other places, but there’s still some cleanup to do to make the trails passable. 🪵 Thankfully Elijah loves cutting wood, so he’s been on the job here!

How did you and your critters do through the storms?

26/06/2024

Summer evenings 🤎

08/06/2024

Shelby gave Eve the sweetest lead-line pony ride today. ❤️ Although a bit unsure still about a tiny rider on her back, Shelby is taking each session in stride and gets more confident every time. She takes such good care of her favorite little girl!

This filly is going to be an amazing trail pony someday!

06/06/2024

These sunsets never get old. 🧡