Animal Update

Here's an update on how all the animals around here are doing.

Kitties

Here are the three kitties. Buddy's in the front, Noel's in the middle and Coale is in the back. Buddy turned eight in May and he is still crazy and playful. Noel and Coale turned six in April. Noel is a pretty kitty and Coale is as troublesome as ever

Buddy is my cat. He's the best kitty ever! He's posing in this picture.

Here's Motormouth, one of the stable's mousers. He's a friendly cat, but he's a little weird sometimes. For instance, he buries his entire food bowl if he didn't finish his food so the other cat doesn't find it. He now likes sleeping on the roof of Sedona's stall. He sits on top of the port-a-potty roof so he can see if anyone who feeds him is entering the stables.

Teddy

Teddy is as playful as last summer. I think he's one and a few months old or somewhere around there. This is on of the structures he plays on.  It's made of plastic so when he has an… accident, we can just wash it off.

This is the whole structure. He has a little hidey hole below the yellow castle as you can see him peeking out of in the first picture.

Horses

Sedona is doing great. Her shoulder is better and I ride her regularly for lessons. Her saddle is fixed so now she will canter correctly. Sadly, Masai died last summer in a accident in pasture where he broke his leg.

Kona is doing good as well. Last summer, she had a back problem that confused her and caused her to spook and run non-stop. She had a sore back a few months ago again, but now she's all better. The bay horse behind Kona may be Kira, Wing's daughter.

Here's Wings. She hasn't been sick or hurt since we got her. Her health has gotten a lot better since she came here. It turns out that Sedona and Wings used to be friends and they were Wing's old stables together for a while. When we introduced them, they were already friends.

Wings

The newest lesson horse.

Her name is Wings. She's from half-moon bay. She is nice to ride because she is so gentle. I rode her bareback for a while. The people taking care of her didn't give her the grain she needed each day and they didn't exercise her. Now she is not skinny because we have been feeding her the grain she needs. Since she's a lesson horse, the work she does helped her get stronger. She is here because her owner wanted her to get better care here, and because our old lesson horse, Masai died.

We miss you Masai!

Masai Ride

I rode Masai in the top arena by myself at the stables. This is not a picture of the rise I took today, but this is a picture of me riding Masai in the top arena (a year-ish ago). We walked, trotted, cantered, and on our way back, we took the tree farm loop (a small trail around the upper arena) back to my teacher's horse's stall. The ride was great! It was fun to just ride around on Masai.

Another picture from the ride about a year ago.

Horse helping

Every weekday, I go to the stables to help out with the horses. This is a picture of me cleaning a stall. The horse in the background, is Kona, one of the horses I ride and help care for. She is hanging out in the back of the stall I am cleaning.

This is a me with Motormouth, the cat who follows me around the stables because I feed him (Motormouth is his name because he talks A LOT).

Here is Masai, one of the horses I help out with. I get to ride the horses pretty often, 3-4 days a week. Masai is one of the horses I ride a lot.