Wordless Wednesday - He Does Ride...sometimes

Still here...

Been busy this week with work and the holiday. Got a little bit of riding in. Rooster is feeling much better on meds with no coughing. New horse is settling in and figuring out the herd. We found a former owner of Tiger's who really wanted him back so he left this morning. I'm really happy that we found her and she will appreciate him. Off to visit family and back to work on Monday.

Hope everyone had a great Turkey Day!!

Sunday Stills - Portraits

This week's Sunday Stills Challenge is Portraits.  I didn't set out to take specific pics this week but did take two that I really liked (both involve horses of course!).

T's new project horse, registered name The Great Diversion.  Even though it's bright sunlight, I loved the way the light hit him and the pic just seemed to scream "selective color" to me.

Candid shot of T on the same horse.  I love the look on her face and the way her hair landed on her shoulders.  She wasn't aware that I was snapping away.

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Wordless Wednesday - Tongue Wagging

Saddles Optional

One of the things that I absolutely love about the horses that we have is that you can grab a bridle, brush off some of the dirt and just hop on, in the pasture, in the ring, on the trails.  I tend to ride bareback more than with a saddle, especially when it's cold out.  T and I got to ride both Saturday and Sunday which was awesome.  Saddles were definitely optional.  The new QH gelding is about as quiet as you can get and totally doesn't mind tooling around with no saddle.

T on the new guy

Me on the new guy

Saturday we took advantage of the empty pasture and rode Tiger and Dash around the field.  It was so much fun!

Me and Dash in the pasture

T and Dash crossing the creek

T and Tiger in the field

Bookends

With the chilly mornings and nice afternoons, the horses have taken to napping in the sun.  Tiger and Rooster were like two bookends.  They even had the same back foot cocked.

Skywatch Friday, Season 5, Episode 18

The Light Before Sunrise

Saturday morning, after I had taken the dogs out in the dark, I decided to drive up the road to take pics of the sunrise.  Mornings have been chilly but I thought I would be fine with the fleece I had on – I was wrong, I froze my butt off!!  I pulled up to the edge of the cornfield that has an awesome view of the sun as it tops the trees and parked my car next to a hunter’s truck.  Because of the hunter’s presence I opted to stay close to the road (I had a dark gray sweatshirt on and kind of blended in).  At this point it was light enough that I didn’t need the car’s headlights but the sun hadn’t yet made an appearance. 

The light just before sunrise was awesome.

The rising sun lit the corn and turned everything gold.

It’s definitely something I will do again but I’ll make sure that I am dressed warmer!

The Great Diversion

Believe it or not, that is actually this horse’s registered name.  How on earth do we shorten that to come up with a barn name???  He’s been called Amos before but to me Amos is a plow horse, not a good looking Quarter Horse.  We will come up with something that seems to suit him better.  He’s 6 years old, papered and T’s next project.  He’s a bit out of shape and still figuring out where he fits in with everything but he’s an awfully nice horse.

Wordless Wednesday - Sleeping Beauties

Macro Monday - Wheat Stalk

A wheat stalk at the edge of a cornfield just before sunrise Saturday morning.

Sad Day

Yesterday afternoon I got a call from the mother of the girl who owns Maccabee.  Macky came through the colic surgery ok but developed a complication and was not getting any better.  In fact he was getting worse and stopped eating.  They made the very difficult decision to end his suffering.  I am so very sad at his loss and his teenage owner is really torn up.

This his how I will remember him - full of himself

Always wondering what you were doing

He crossed the Rainbow Bridge on 11/3/2011 and was lucky enough to be loved by 2 teenaged girls in the last year of his life

Maccabee G, may you run and buck in green fields forever.  Rest in peace, buddy.

Wordless Wednesday - On the Hill

October Snow

The snow started Saturday morning.  It was supposed to be mostly rain to begin with but Mother Nature had other ideas.  We blanketed all of the horses since they didn't really have their winter coats yet and it was very wet snow, a fresh round bale went out and the water tub was filled to the brim.  We weren't sure that we were going to be able to get back there later in the day since there were already tree limbs down.  The snow stopped sometime in the early morning on Sunday and left us with about 8 inches that compacted down as the temps came up.  By Sunday afternoon it was sunny and every thing was melting.  The barn is still without power, our cable just came up last night and there are still several streets closed due to downed trees and power lines.  Let's hope we get back to normal by the weekend.

Saturday morning, looking through the fence

Saturday morning in the pasture

Sunday morning in the pasture

T took advantage of the snow to jump on Zip bareback

While Craig cleared the driveway