I’m sure there is no need for me to mention that I am way behind on sharing pictures! All of these pictures are from November. Jason and I just finished finalizing all of our 2008 information as we are meeting with our CPA tomorrow. Nothing puts me in a grouchier mood than dealing with taxes. So to cheer myself up I thought I would go through some pictures and post them. Levendi wanted to make sure I got a nice close-up picture of him #jason #bear #chainsaw #pictures #farmmai

Just as it did a few weekends ago this weekend got off to an auspicious start. On Friday morning my horse Lexi decided to put herself in the running for a Darwin award. Not five minutes after Amy and I had left her pasture after feeding and putting on rainsheets my Dad calls me to say there is a horse tangled up in the fence and to come fast. He also said to bring my chainsaw. GULP. OK, I don’t know what else he could have said to make me panic because that certainly did! I r

If only running a horse retirement farm was all about playing with the horses. It would make life absolutely perfect! Unfortunately there is a lot of other stuff that is involved in maintaining a farm that has nothing to do with horses. About a week ago I was feeding the horses one morning and I noticed this huge tree limb was down. It also happened to be over a fence line. Thankfully it was not touching the fence and hadn’t damaged the fence at all when it fell. I don’t have

. . . but wow are they destructive!! People are always surprised to learn how we ended up with goats on the farm. It was not by design, and very much by accident. In the fall of 1996 we noticed three goats (mommy, daddy and kid) living under the bridge which is near our driveway at the bottom of the hill. We asked everyone we knew if they were missing any goats or if they knew of someone that was missing some goats. No one ever stepped forward to claim them and we worried the

. . . or the queen of the retirement farm anyway! I have been campaigning for my own chainsaw for quite some time. They are incredibly useful tools that have many uses. Our favorite uses for chainsaws or cutting up old trees and repairing fence boards. Neither Jason nor my dad would allow me to use any of their (many) chainsaws. They claimed I did not have the upper arm strength to control them in the event that one of them “kicked back” while I was using it. I guess they tho

We’ve all used the saying “it is really hard to get good help” at least once. The day to day things on the farm really aren’t as time consuming as most people expect them to be. Everyone always wants to know how many people we have helping on a daily basis. It isn’t feeding the horses, scrubbing and filling troughs, putting on blankets, grooming, stall cleaning, or any of the day to day things that are particularly hard or time consuming. We have the daily routine down and ge