Kara's First Solo Ride on Charisma

These are pictures from Shelley was here in November. This was Kara's first Solo trip on Charisma. A good possiblility that Charisma might be Kara's walk/trot show horse for this upcoming season!

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Thank you to Shannon Ryan for coming to the barn for lessons and training. We are happy to have her and look forward to working with her. We will be doing lessons on every other Saturday - next date is this Saturday, Dec 8th. Please contact me for scheduling.

Also, I posted previously about our new filly, Sugar. Well, sadly, she was diagnosed with Wobbler's Syndrome, which is a neurological spinal disorder - which is incurable. Fortunately for my pocket book, I was able to take her back to the owners, and picked up a new filly. Her name is Dafnie and her registered name is "Zip With Me". She is very sweet and gentle, and I really like her alot. She is also, my Gus's half sister - they share the same sire. I also got to meet Gus & Dafnie's "daddy" at the breeders, and it was really cool to see him. Here is a picture of Dafnie from at the breeders. I haven't gotten around to taking any photo's of her at home yet.

I LOVE feeding under the lean-to....let me tell you!!!!!!!! After the snow this weekend, I could just go under the lean - feeding grain and hay without plowing thru snow, fighting off hungry horses, searching for frickin feed buckets in the snow, carrying bales of hay....all that - GONE - .....was it was worth $60,000.....a STRONG possibility.....

I haven't ridden much in the indoor arena, as I normally don't ride much at all in the months of December and January. It is a well earned rest for my horses, and a very good mental break too. Before we built our own place, I had lived for 8 years at a place that had an indoor riding arena. I normally would get started in February, riding 3-4 days a week to start conditioning the horses - often spending the first couple of weeks on ground work and not riding at all.

I'm anticipating the barn to get really busy starting in February. I have had recent inquiries about openings, so that is good. Randy is busy digging in the water lines in the barn.... better late than never right??? The plan was to run automatic waterer's thru the new stall barn, but we've run out of $$, so he is running the water pipes and stubbing up to where each waterer will be. We needed to do this BEFORE doing the stalls, as once the stalls and footing is in, it's alot more difficult and expensive to do. He is also running water hydrants to the back turn-outs. Right now we are dragging 150 feet (yes, not a typo) - out to tanks in back. Can we say MAJOR Pain-in-the-ass.... Of course, as my friend Paul, has pointed out - why would I need Curves or other weight loss programs - with this extra work.... Ha Ha I say!!!

Bo received a C on his big Biology test last week and an A on his binder. He wasn't happy with a C, but I pointed out to him, that he had a big FAT F on the last exam along with a zero on his binder - so that was a great improvement.

Kara is loosing her two front teeth....very SLOWLY..... she was playing with Twinkle and bumped her mouth and was all bloody and gross, and wiggling that tooth for all it's worth, and still stayed in... I have vague repressed memories of my Dad just yanking those out......I haven't the heart to do the same.

I best be getting back to work!