Riding Aside

As I suspected, Lourdes was pregnant with multiples - but only with twins.  The little ram was dead, but the ewe was born very healthy and ...

Meet Lourdes!  She is our best ewe and (obviously) pregnant...and obviously pregnant with multiples.  At this point with every passing day,...

We added a little addition to our farm that should have been built when we first built the barn... a well house. Although it is not yet don...

.. we lost our baby lamb.  After all the progress - he came down with phneumonia.  I know this is going to sound terrible... but I was exhau...

Don wants to name him Lucky... but he said not to name him anything for a few days...so I guess he has to earn the name 'Lucky'.. ma...

I went out to feed this morning and saw something that made my heart sink... one of our ewes over by the fence screaming by 2 little white ...

I found the light fixtures at Lowes a long time ago.  I love them - just because of the initial Wow factor when you open the barn doors and ...

..do not have to be massive to be beautiful.  While we all ohhh and ahhh over barns and facilities like these, they are rarely privately ...

..with the round pen!! Wish I was off so I could be riding in it now!

The pad is in... 30 loads of clay and who knows how many of top sand! It does not look like that much dirt from this angle: ..but if y...

..the shrub tree is gone...before: .. and after: 20 truck loads of a clay base then a 3" top coat of sand is being delivered to...

...on the round pen! It does not look too unlevel to the eye - does it???  Believe it or not, there is a 2 foot difference in elevation ...

One of them will be a round pen.  Honestly, I am not sure how we have worked without one for so long.  Especially with young horses and tryi...