We've had a few beautiful, sunny days, though its been quite cold. Bellow 0 at night and often in the teens during the day. Yesterday it got up to 30, however, and that was nice. Creeks are freezing up, so I am on ax duty already - going out twice a day to break ice.
Still working out the kinks in the new fencing for Ryder. Yesterday we came out to find him in with his mares (the pasture across from his new fence) and there was no damaged fencing anywhere. All we can think of is that the boy jumped right over the whole thing! I looked more closely and saw that the workers had put up only 3 rails in a few spots (we had asked that this be a 4-rail, 6+ foot fence). I am guessing he jumped at one of those. I will go out tomorrow and affix a fourth rail and we will see how this fence does!
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Friday, November 23, 2007
Honey
We got some really sad news today. Its about Honey, one of our horses that we sold last year. She died suddenly this weekend, leaving a very sad-hearted family behind.
We sold Honey last year to a family with a 5-year-old girl named Makayla. Makayla comes from a family of avid riders and Honey was Makayla's first horse of her own. They adored each other. Makayla got a pink halter, pink saddle, pink brushes and lead ropes all to use only on Honey. She couldn't get enough of riding her or brushing her or walking her.
The only problem they had was that with Honey being very big, and Makayla being very little, they had to wait for Makayla's mother or brothers to come out and saddle Honey every day so she could ride her all around. Well, within the first two weeks of having her, Makayla decided that situation was just not satisfactory.
One day she drug a ladder over to Honey, leaned it up against her side, and proceeded to climb it to saddle and bridle her. Honey stood patiently through the whole process until Makayla climbed up the ladder and into the saddle, kicking the ladder away once she was on. And that was how they did it every day from then on out.
I loved getting updates about the two of them - they were the kind of match I am in this business for.
Makayla's mother called me today to tell me that Honey has died.
She was got sick and the vet said she wouldn't survive the surgery to try and save her, so they had to put her down. She could barely tell me about it through her crying. I asked her how Makayla was and she said, "She doesn't know yet. I don't know how I'm going to tell her."
We are sick at heart for them and for our faithful, loving Honey who gave so much to everyone she knew, and we are sick at heart for the loss of such a perfect, delightful match between a horse and her little girl.
We sold Honey last year to a family with a 5-year-old girl named Makayla. Makayla comes from a family of avid riders and Honey was Makayla's first horse of her own. They adored each other. Makayla got a pink halter, pink saddle, pink brushes and lead ropes all to use only on Honey. She couldn't get enough of riding her or brushing her or walking her.
The only problem they had was that with Honey being very big, and Makayla being very little, they had to wait for Makayla's mother or brothers to come out and saddle Honey every day so she could ride her all around. Well, within the first two weeks of having her, Makayla decided that situation was just not satisfactory.One day she drug a ladder over to Honey, leaned it up against her side, and proceeded to climb it to saddle and bridle her. Honey stood patiently through the whole process until Makayla climbed up the ladder and into the saddle, kicking the ladder away once she was on. And that was how they did it every day from then on out.
I loved getting updates about the two of them - they were the kind of match I am in this business for.
Makayla's mother called me today to tell me that Honey has died.
She was got sick and the vet said she wouldn't survive the surgery to try and save her, so they had to put her down. She could barely tell me about it through her crying. I asked her how Makayla was and she said, "She doesn't know yet. I don't know how I'm going to tell her."
We are sick at heart for them and for our faithful, loving Honey who gave so much to everyone she knew, and we are sick at heart for the loss of such a perfect, delightful match between a horse and her little girl.
Nov. 19, 2007
Got a foot of snow. Wasn't quite ready for it, so we are scrambling to do the last winterizing projects now - tying down tarps on hay, picking up tools and brining in irrigation system before it all freezes. Temperatures bellow 0 at night this week, so I think winter is here. All our downed fences are now covered with snow, unfortunately, but it is certainly beautiful.
Nov. 14, 2007
Big wind-storm took out large tracks of fence in every pasture. Christie staying with her cousin again, Dave trying to manage the ranch on own. Worst wind-storm we've had. Only one pasture survived.
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