Good Bye Dusty

I think I am not supposed to have a new show horse. Last year my yearling gelding I had kept to be my new show horse broke his leg at his hock and I had to put him down. I then showed "the old man" (Daddys Legacy) another year. It was a good year, but I was looking so forward to showing my new two-year-old. This summer I kept a different yearling to be my 2-year-old project to start and show this fall, Dusty. Well, yesterday he broke his neck in a freak accident in a hay feeder. Seemes he stepped into the feeder, reached his head around the next bar, went into a panic, and broke his neck. At least this is the scenario we are thinking happened as all we found was a dead horse draped around a hay feeder. He was fine at morning chores, but dead as a door nail when Stan went to blow snow out of the bull yard after lunch. I was so looking forward to showing him this summer. I had been taking my time letting him grow. Every time I would try to push him a little more with grain, hoping to show him at halter as a yearling, he would grow taller. This fall I decided that was fine as he was going to be big enough for a riding horse for me. He was already 16 hands when he died. Of course it had to be him that decided to be stupid. The one I had picked to be mine rather than sell. I guess if I decided to show this year it will have to be the "old man" again this year. Maybe I will just be a horse show mom this year with Joellen and her horse. I really like to ride her horse. Maybe she will share Uno with me and we can show some trail too. I guess it will be two more years now before I have a two-year-old to show. I better make sure not to doom them and pick them to be mine!

Merry Christmas

The weather outside is frightful this Christmas Day. A blizzard has swept accross much of our state and neighboring states. As the rest of my family watches movies, I have spent much of the day catching up on websites and blogs. If you haven't seen our world show pictures online at http://www.gonsoirquarterhorses.com/ I will share them with you here. Looking at these pictures help me remember that winter will not last forever! In a few hours I will have to bundle up once again to go outside and do chores. The snowbanks continue to form between here and the barn. When I went out this morning, they were knee deep. My poor rat terrier, Trigger, felt the need to accompany me to the barn. The snow was over his back, yet he kept leaping along side. He was ready to go inside by the time we were done. As I have gone to walk him periodically this afternoon, he looks at me like you have got to be kidding? You want me to "go" (either since of the word) out there? Well it is nearly time to trade snow storm activites- the kids want to have a competitive game of Wii golf.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!