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Go Pros, Snow and Horses!

Tonight I really wish I owned a Go Pro camera.  The boyzees, Princess (our cow dog aka feeding partner) and I went down to the barn to do chores. It was after dark, the moon was full and bright and we were all a little tired from the week. The boyzees each had sport practices tonight.  At the barn we needed to feed, fill waterers and move hay around for the next week-we had been putting off moving bales of hay for quite a few days!

Diamond, our 7 month old filly is now full time in a pasture-we never stall her because of what we thought was muscle probs.  We now think maybe she just needs to be in a large run/pasture always!  We have been hauling water by bucket fulls for a while as she is in a large run with a shelter that is no where near water or electricity.  So tonight we moved a large water trough and started hooking hoses together.  Four VERY LONG hoses later we had the hose long enough to reach from the water spigot to the water trough.  Little side note:  HUBS had to fix a hose and he thinks this past summer he had a great reason to put two female ends on one hose. So the boys and I are in moonlight only (we finally broke down and used the flashlight on the cell phone) to put the hoses together.  After a long laugh we figured it out and got the hoses organized.

I do think the horses were all wondering what the he** we were doing laughing, hollering and carrying  on.  That Go Pro would have come in handy tonight just because it was all funny to the boyzees and I!!!

We also moved had to all the pastures to make feeding (especially in the mornings) a little easier on HUBS!

Boyzees and Hubs think I am a bad driver.  EVERYTIME the snow (currently from the night before last) drifts I seem to get stuck in a snow drift in my one ton truck.  All the males in my household think it is me.  So driving back up to the house from the barn took  three tries-which gave the boyzees a good laugh when they told hubs!

Tonight I am thankful for the laughs and memories I made tonight night with my boyzees.  It was the absolute highlight of my day!  It just doesn’t get any better!

So horses are watered and fed and we all are sleepy…Have a GREAT evening!

 

Alisha (aka Wild Woman of the West)

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P.P.S.S. Does anyone own a Go Pro?  How do you like it?  What do you use it for?  I was thinking I should get one.  Lots of uses-spying on the horses when I am gone at work; wearing on my head while I feed with the boys to capture laughs and memories with them; and I am pretty sure the boyzees could think of ways to use it too!

New life is amazing!

I knew the night that our mare, Jeny was going to have her baby!  So about 10 minutes after the filly was born I got there-doesn’t that just figure.  I had set my alarm for 2:30 am to go check on her and about 2:20 am I woke up startled-so I boogied down to the barn.  What a cute little filly.  I instantly fell in love with her (as did the rest of the fam)!

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Before the little filly was born I couldn’t for the life of me think of a name. I got out the AQHA papers of the mare and stud and still couldn’t figure out.  Hubs and I brainstormed name ideas the night she was born.

When I walked into the stall at 2:30 am and saw the lopsided diamond on her forehead I instantly knew her name had to be Diamond.  And you know what they say, Diamonds are a girls best friend!  My little lady already says they are best friends!!!

My little lady and little Diamond have the most adorable relationship with the panel fence between them!  There is sniffing and petting and talking to each other!  All of that stops when they are face to face!  It is hilarious!  They are both terrified of the other when the panel is not between them.

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I love getting close to Diamond.  She follows me around the field and their round pen.  She loves her neck petted but NOT HER EARS!  It is relaxing to watch her run and buck around!

 

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