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Hello Everyone!

I thought i would do a blog each day (ok so maybe once a week at least!) on the horses that i do have right now. Mine and the rescue horses. Well i count the rescue horses as mine until i find them the perfect home.

First and foremost!
Papa Jack! (aka Mr. Jackson Weaver)

Jack is a 15 year old Appendix/QH gelding. Big boy at 16 hh and probably weighs about 1250 pounds. He is the king of the herd. He is the one everyone of the horses love to eat with. He is a good boss to all of the horses. He loves the babies (Prize is his favorite), loves to play with Duke and Baby Breeze, loves the girls, loves all horses. He only enforces his king status at meal time. He is black in color. He is my first horse. I got him from a lady who was boarding at my friend Jodi's place. She just got him from an auction a few months before i bought him. She already had a smaller Arab gelding named Haji(?) and wanted a horse for her husband. Well she and her husband broke up and then she wanted to sell Jack. She told me that he was at this auction, was an Amish horse and knew how to drive and ride. Some people like the half drafts for driving. he has the height of a TB and the stockiness of a QH. She said that kids were all over him and he was such a good boy. He IS a good boy. But I got him at 9 years old. Now that i have been in the rescue business for awhile, i should have known there was something up with Jack. You dont get rid of a good driver/rider at 9 years old. Jack has some arthritis. He has his good days and his bad days. Some days he shuffles, some days he runs his butt off and bucks and has some fun. I just watch him to see if he is having a good day or bad day. I havent ridden him much in the last few years at all. But he loves me and his herd and takes very good care of them. He is my first horse and i will always cherish him! I hope he is with me for a very long time. I remember when he and Missy were the only ones I had. Missy was pregnant with Prize. I separated them when Missy was closer to her due date. She had Prize and there is Jack, just waiting patiently (ok so not so patiently!) to get at the baby! He adores the babies. Well, good thing that i did separate them, because Missy charged the fence where he was standing for a week solid! And he let her do that. He knew not to mess with her and her new baby! Well 2 weeks later, i let them both be together and he took care of Prize like she was his! For the longest time, Prize is the only one he would let even eat by him! He spoiled her so! She could get away with alot with him. Anyhow, Jack is my dear, dear boy and he is a beautiful boy that will be with me for the rest of our lives. Enjoy!
Next blog will be about Duke. My chaos boy, Duke! I will put them in order of hiarchy.

New year!

Hello Everyone-

2011 is here! Sorry, i havent blogged in a while. Life just gets away from me. sometimes it feels like I am just eating, sleeping, working and caring for the horses. But that is a good life. I have heard from a few people who have horses of mine. The horse i would like to feature today is Jewels and her mom, Sam. Sam has had Jewels for over 4 years old. She will be 6 this year. I had her as a yearling. She was a sassy girl. Not even close to the gorgeous mare she is today! Just love her. These photo's were taken in 2009 and 2010. As we say in the Quarter Horse world, Jewels has a great butt! Sam has done a wonderful job with her, dont you think?
Wow! What a looker she is. She has also received Grand Champion for halter at their fair in 2009. They sure look good together dont they? they have grown up together. I thank God for my adopters like Sam and her family. And I have wonderful other adopters as well. And i get to see quite a few of my horses and get updates often.

Other news! We have been accepted to the Midwest Horse Fair again this year! Very excited about that. We will probably be bringing Mya and Raven. Hope to find great homes for those two great girls as well. Rebecca has been working quite hard with Mya and Raven, well we need to do more with her. She is an assertive filly who will be 4 this year. She is a Missouri Fox Trotter. She has filled out alot since she has come to my home. She is also testing me alot. She has been getting out of the pasture area. She stays near the fence with the horses, but it still gets me nervous when she is out. She is also COVERED with burrs since getting out twice. I try to take the burrs out and she is uncooperative! I dont blame her since her coat is long and the burrs are just embedded in her coat! So i do a little at a time. I really need to take a picture of her now. More burrs then i have ever seen on one of my horses!! But she is safe now, i decided to put her in with Kobb and Max. Then of course Antar had a bit fit about it (Raven and Antar - buds forever) so i put him in with the boys too. I was worried because I wanted all 3 boys to be in that pen, but Max ran him around too much and then he was worried about not being with Raven. But it has turned out well. Raven and Antar hang together and then Kobb and Max. I have to watch her because she likes to bully horses out of their grain. And she also will tip over her pail with grain and then move on to the next pail and of course the older guys dont do that and they do not like to eat their grain from the ground! So now i have buckets tied to the panels. And then i found out that she will not cross Kobb! So Kobb and Max eat their grain together and then i put Antar kind of near Raven in the buckets. So far so good. But i really dont want them all to stay together all winter long. She will get the better of the old guys and they really need their grain and not Ms. Piggy beating them up to get extra grain! So this weekend we have hay to stack and also try to find out where she is getting out! I dont have the fence on, but maybe it had better go back on!
Anyhow, she is getting her way and her grain and she likes that just fine! HA! You go girl!