My last baby!

Hi All-

Been busy to blog and then i forgot my password. Oh well. But obviously i did remember it. Thank goodness i use the same passwords on alot of things. Anyhow, wanted to share with you pictures of my last foal. Destinee, born April 22, 2008. She was adopted by Cate and Dave in Madison. Cate just sent them to me this morning. The lesson that had is with Jodi Pursley of Pursley's Stable in Cross Plains. Pretty soon Jodi will have nothing but my rescue horses boarded there. They are a great stable, close to Madison. Right now, lets see, Cheyenne, Lady, Angie, Destinee are there. Jed is also there and he was actually a surrendered horse but never entered into my program. Lily was also there for a few years too until she was adopted by Jean in Deforest.
Destinee- She is out of my best mare Missy. She was an oops baby. Her sire is Gabe a PMU foal that i got from a girl who purchased him at an auction. Gabe is up in Sparta with Denise and her family. Destinee looks alot like Gabe. Missy is a bay and Gabe is sorrel. Gabe is an appendix quarter and Missy is a QH. So Destinee is 1/4 TB and the rest is QH. She looks like she got the best out of both horses. She is taller like a TB and has the build of a QH! She is a very special girl to me. Ok, so all of my horses are special to me! But we all love the babies dont we?
Destinee is getting trained right now and had her first saddle on her. Next year she should be ready to have a rider on her! She is spoiled girl and both me and Cate are the ones who spoil her! Every time I get to Jodi's, i go to give Destinee her scratches and lovin. She absolutely loves that. She wants to be boss of her group and at one time was. That was until Rosie and Dream came back to Jodi's- (They were there when Destinee came and then went to another stable and now back at Jodi's again!). Destinee was way too young to be a boss mare and she enjoyed every minute of it. But she is back in her place which is where she should be! She is getting taller and taller every day. i am hoping she will get to be 15.2-15.3 hands! Missy is 15 hands and Gabe is 16 hands. So it may happen. I think Cate would like to jump and do some dressage with Destinee. Destinee jumped alot of stuff when she was with me as a baby. Made me nervous, but it didnt make Destinee nervous. She was also a bigger foal for Missy and was the typical 'over the knee's' when she was young. We had a vet over as well and he thought she had a problem with her hip, but she was so young, that it never developed. So be sure to be careful on what your vet says when they are so young. Things can develop, some things may not. She is a wonderful girl. I also have her 1/2 sister, Prize. Now Prize is more like her mom Missy then her dad. Her sire was 16 hands but i am unsure how his shape was. He was black (brown) and so is Prize. But both mares are very sweet, you can touch them anywhere and are very agreeable in their training. Very laid back. While i miss Destinee very much, she is in very great hands with Cate and Dave. And Jodi is taking very good care of her at her farm as well. So here are pictures of Destinee and Prize. I must say that Prize was very upset with her mom when Missy cut her off when she knew she was pregnant. Yes, Prize did nurse on Missy until she was 3 years old! Kind of cool to see that Missy knew she couldnt nurse Prize anymore when she knew she was pregnant. But now that Destinee is gone, Prize has weasled her way back into Missy's life. Not nursing, but they eat, groom and stand together alot again.

some photos

I thought i would give more photo's. so here they are-
1. Rocket, He was adopted by Cher, in Illinois along with Ms. Mattie (aka Misty)
2. Shayla was my first rescue horse. She was a 26 year old Belgian mare. I had her for 3 years.
3. Titan- I had him as a yearling. He is now owned by Lisa S. a girl friend of mine from HS.

Its Monday!

Well its Monday and its now August. Still pretty hot out too. I hate to use my air conditioning so much. But with no breeze and super humid, what can a girl do??!! I sweat enough outside with the horses. Boy, those horses..... I put on their fly masks, they take off their fly masks etc.... I have had people come over and they see the fly masks in a box outside of the pen. They say, hey, why dont you put these on? I say, cuz in 20 minutes they will have them off! So the old girl that i am, really gets tired of putting them on and then finding them all over the pasture to pick them up! After about 4-5 times, i say, ok, so have flies on you! Little poopers! So hopefully not too much longer for the hot/humid weather, but i heard its going to be like this for awhile. Farmers almanac said the summer was supposed to be cooler, but I think they surely got that wrong! At least the horses have some BIG trees to be under. They like that! I have heard from both Daevin's and Antar new mom's that they are doing well and they love them to bits. Boy, does that make me feel good! I am very happy about that. Also is nice that they are close! Will be going to see both in the next couple of week.
Oh yes- Hay! Even with pasture, the pigs (oops sorry, horses) have eaten their pasture down. Now there is just the nibble stuff. So i have been feeding them hay. I thought i was smart and got some small squares and then got some big ones from my usual hay guy. Well remember last week or so when we got dumped with 7 inches of rain? Well, Miss Jenny didnt put enough weight on the tarps to make sure rain didnt get on the hay. I come out and the tarps are all flapping OFF of the hay and my poor (expensive) hay is getting drenched. And then the hot weather. Well i have probably lost about $250.00 worth of hay. Bummer.. But i sure learned - ok the hard way, but i learned! Will be building a lean-to later in the year to store in the winter, but will be more careful about the tarps in the summer! So have to get more hay. I have a couple of days left. Am seeing a family just down the road from me and i usually will get a few bales of hay first to see if its good. I hate to get a ton of hay and then find out its got weeds in it or thistles or just icky brown. My horses just look at me and say (as if to say!) What the heck mom?? We have to eat this?? But going back to the PIG reference, they do eat just about anything put in front of them. Also- my bad hay? Will have to find somewhere to put that, cuz it now looks like a sty with the crappy hay piled up. Oh well. Expensive little lesson. With my old place, i never had to worry about hay. I had a barn with no leaks! Could shut the doors to make sure the wind didnt blow it away! Oh well. So more to do this year, but its ok, i can deal with it. I really actually like my new place. There are a few things that I need to get my landlord to fix, but all in all? I like it! Remember me talking about the highway? Well my dogs havent (knock on wood- yes, superstitious)gone to the road and Zeus will stick by me and Hunter is on the prowl to get a pidgeon and he will at some point. He is relentless! He always gets his man! (or should i say, either the male or female bird) he is like the energizer bunny. Zeus is now 9 and is slowing down. But he still loves to go out with mom! Anyhow, so the update is about hay and here is hoping that I will find a few different folks with decent hay! I hope your week goes well!