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Monday, October 12, 2009
 
Comment! Zeus and Sammee



Not sure if I have ever done a shout out to John Albano who is the tech friend/wizard who has helped me set up the website, do our on line marketing, google adwords, etc.... And as of NOW you can comment on the blog!




You have to have a google account but it is pretty easy to achieve. Also, I will moderate all comments. So, content will continue to be appropriate for the multiple ages that visit our site. And, there may be a delay when I am traveling for your posts to go up.




We have welcomed a new horse to the barn! Zeus is an almost five year old gelding half quarter horse, half paint. He is Elizabeth's birthday present -- she turns 11 this week. He is certainly a little green, but really friendly and good natured. Karrie did his first ever jumping today. He was good -- not a natural, but went over everything she pointed him at. His worst habit is backing up so Elizabeth needs to be really firm with him and not let him do that at all. He also can't canter from a walk, so she will have to work him into a canter from a trot. He won't be a school horse for a while and only Karrie will jump him for now ... but hopefully he will develop like Jay and Hercules into a solid horse for the intermediate riders. Here he is making friends with Buck in the pasture. He has the white spot on his neck. Cute, huh?




Sammee (the cat) is obviously the perfect Halloween cat!




Going to post some new programs coming up .... stay tuned!

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Monday, July 6, 2009
 
Not just horses


In addition to the wonderful horses -- our school horses and our boarders -- we also have our Boston Terrier, Buddy, who keeps everyone in the barn amused. His most favorite activity is to chase after the bailing twine that has been discarded from the hay bales! Although barking at and chasing away the birds would probably qualify as a close second as a favorite past time. Then, last week while I was in San Diego, the girls convinced Chuck to get a kitten!!!! Sammee is named after their cousin Sam (although spelled in a very 8 year old kind of way) and is living in the 'quiet' tack room. The theory is he will rid the barn of mice ..... at the moment though he is simply another toy. A cute one though. And here is a NEW picture of Sammee and a great one of Buddy (the most photogenic guy in our family!) -- both done by Krissy.

Emma and Maradith were going to do a video today for me to post with some text tomorrow so we shall see!

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