My week so far...

My main horse these days is Billy, he is showing me how athletic he is...liking it!

Graice...she is doing so well under saddle, look forward to each days ride on her.

Mr. Moon before his solo ride!

I came back from a ride and Taylor had jerry rigged my english saddle on Drifter (as there was no cinch) she had an old back cinch and throat latch....he is so good with her!

Taylor brushing a VERY in foal Jessie..

All the halters...

Gracie & Blaze

Mr. Moon (Moe)

Rusty hanging over his new buddy Mr. Moon (Moe)

Teeko is out of here...galloping away after a ride towards the hay!

Pretty Billy...note the nice muscle lines coming with all my spring training!

Ringo a Pepinics Master 3 year old we bought. It was his day, round penned and saddled for the 1st time!

My string in the barn after a great ride. Riding horse Billy then Gracie-Rusty-Mr. Moon (Moe) and Teeko with her bum to us...

No moon tonight so came in early...gorgeous night though!

Long weekend is almost here...yee haw!

Good bye....trailer!

This was our first "real" trailer, I slept in it for a summer with Taylor and it pulled awesome. The first people to come and see it bought it...young couple and their first trailer. But....it was still hard, the memories. One night I stalled my truck on the way into hummingbird with Brenda. The trailer full of horses pulled us back...I stayed on the brake, she unloaded the horses. We drove ahead and made camp and came back for our ponies. Was sad to see her leave but hoping for a new (new to us) trailer in the near future!

Spring is here...

We went for a Sunday drive this morning and I took some pics along the way...now going riding!

Night riding yet again....smile!

ME getting up on Rusty...yikes...he was my last ride of the day and my first ride on him. I have to say...wow! He was amazing and it really was enjoyable. We went on the loop and he is sooo smooth, then we came to the creek crossing, I thought he would jump but he smoothly walked over it... I CAN"T WAIT FOR TOMMOROW"S RIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Me finally on the big guy!

My view on Rusty....

Taylor wanted to get on...so she did!

Blue bedded down for the night in the hay....but I had one more ride!

Friday's ride...

Taylor re-named Tiny (because we have one) to RUSTY! Last night I put the pack saddle on, flanked him and he was awesome. Went for a long ride in the dark with an awesome moon. Found some good mud, lots of water holes and the horses had fun! I am going to get on Rusty today...stay tuned!

Horses were all fired up with spring fever running around the pasture having fun!

Blaze

Gracie

Facebook....

All you facebook lovers....I just added a new album of our horses! If your not on facebook get into it and become a fan!!! My dad would so slap me for this sentence and tell me to pick more rocks in the day. Love the era I grew up in....night all! Sorry for the lack of Wednesday wine....but a women can only drink so much wine, Rachel help! smile....weekend is HERE!

Puppy-mania!

Mika had 6 puppies, 1 female and 5 males. I could sit with them all day long! My nieces were out and named them all, then Taylor was out and re-named them all.....so you'll have to excuse me if I can 't remember all their names!! lol! They said they'd email me if I got them wrong! :)

Striker

Rascal

Sam

Denim

Rex

Tuk

Aaaahhhh.....!!! Now if you're ever having a bad day...just look at this page of the blog and how can you help but to smile!

Brenda

The best thing about friends visiting.....

One of the best things about friends visiting....is that you can get SO many horses rode! I know y'all know what I mean! :) I don't know how many times I said to Terri, "it's sure fun watching you do the work!" And it gives me a chance to get behind the camera!



Here's Terri riding one of my main horses this winter, Steel. Very kind eye, great mover, 16.1 h, can take him anywhere! He's seen the miles in the pack string last year and been through everything!






You gotta cross the river...






hills and banks....

great stride...

over jumps...

learning about flexion...

having some fun with the steers!

The end of the day. Opening and shutting gates.

We have Steel currently for sale. Including his riding this winter, Steel has seen more miles than most green colts because he was used all last season packing too. All this work really matures the mind! Steel is so easy to get along with and carries his heart on his sleeve. We want him to go to a loving home with someone who is going to use him. He has the athleticism go in any direction, western or english. You can contact us if you're interested.

Oh...and thanks Terri....! :)

Brenda

Spring in Alberta...the canoe is covered in snow!

Woke up to a nice blanket of snow here in Rocky this morning...