January 2015 Leo, Levendi and Apollo Walon and Oskar Rubrico and Donovan Largo and River Sparky, Griselle and Timbit Silky and Norman Gibson and Silver Hesse, Walden and Remmy Thomas, Moe and Homer Homer, Ritchie and Baby Apollo and Hemi Flyer, Lofty and Donneur February 2015 Apollo, Hemi and Thomas Alex, Mick and B-Rad Bruno, Duesy, Hesse, Walden, Fabrizzio, Merlin, Remmy Calimba, Dolly and Cuff Links Lighty, Sebastian and Sam Homer, Trigger, Ritchie and Levendi Mick and Joh

Yesterday was an exciting day for one group of horses. One of their family members, Lotus, left a few weeks ago to see if a return to work was going to be possible. Although it became quickly apparent that he was not going to be able to return to work Lotus is pretty happy with how things worked out. His wonderful mom sent him back to our farm so he could resume his previously scheduled life of retirement. Lotus quite enjoys the retired life. He is very active and is always r

Blu and Nemo Johnny and Sebastian Bruno, Lucky and Lightning Griselle and Sparky Calimba and MyLight hanging out Tony and Baby Flyer and Faune Cocomo and George having a foggy morning grooming session Thomas doing his routine pre-meal stretch with Homer watching Romeo and Lotus #pictures

January 2014 Lighty and Murphy a January 2014 sunrise handsome Donneur Faune and Flyer Sam doing his tongue/nose licking routine after eating Noble and Lucky February 2014 Lotus, Romeo, Lofty and Flyer Sparky the donkey and Timbit the mini being wild foggy February morning Walon grooming a napping Clayton Gibson and Gus Fabrizzio, Noble and Walden on our one snow day of 2014 MyLight and Silky March 2014 Largo and Oskar Elfin doing his signature dogwalk so he can roll on the o

January Hemi and Apollo hanging out Bergie showing everyone how they’re supposed to look after a good roll Darby showing off his fuzzy winter ears Moe was the last man standing, surrounded by Trigger, Apollo, Levendi and Homer February Elfin and Baby on the run heading across the pasture single file; Winston, Silver, Lotus, Romeo, George and Gus Wiz and Sam napping in the shed Lighty and Johnny being silly March Toledo and Johnny I remember taking this picture of Norman and C

We have a lot going on around the farm but no time to write about it. Enjoy the pictures and we’ll be back with an update soon! MyLight, Cinnamon, Norman and Calimba waiting for breakfast under a pretty morning sky Having fun in the pasture. Thor leading followed by Walden, Fabrizzio and Noble . . . . . . Lucky and Thor . . . . . . Walden opens the gap followed by Noble, Lightening, Merlin and Fabrizzio . . . . . . Noble and Merlin pulling away from Fabrizzio and Lightening K

I always like to glance through all of the pictures I’ve taken at the end of the year.  It is always interesting to watch the changing of the seasons through the pictures and to see brief moments in time of the year.  Below is a compilation of random pictures taken during 2012.  Enjoy a pictorial walk down memory lane of 2012! January 2012 Rampal napping hard in the hay Jason hanging out with his girls, Miss Lyle, Jo and Mina Norman and Traveller are pony cuteness Jason and M

Most of the time I take for granted the amazing landscape, horses and scenes that I get to see every day.  Today was a day where I really noticed and appreciated everything I usually take for granted.  I think it was because the sunrise was particularly stunning this morning.  Instead of rushing around getting feed ready I actually took a few minutes to watch the sun light up the sky and I was treated to a particularly spectacular show. After such an elegant start to the day

One of the things I enjoy doing the most is simply watching the horses. It is good for the soul to watch happy and content horses just hanging out. All weekend long it seemed everywhere you looked you could see horses grooming each other, horses napping and horses playing. These are sights that can be seen most any day, but sometimes I forget to take the time to simply watch and enjoy the sights. Unfortunately I did not have my camera with me more often than I did this wee

I started going through a bunch of pictures and decided to pick a few pictures from each month and show some scenes of 2010 in pictures. It ended up taking me forever trying to remember certain pictures from each month and then find them on my computer! These aren’t necessarily the best pictures that I took but each one brought back a strong memory for me. I remember taking each and every one of these pictures and most of them are associated with very happy memories and momen

Ivan and Tony sharing a meal Dustin was using a tree as a scratching post #pictures

(blog post written by Jason tonight; as always picture captions by Melissa) Melissa and I are in the rare spring-time position of actually being relatively caught up with our farm chores this weekend. But all was not sloth around here as we took advantage of the excellent weather to move the horses around to take advantage of grass in other areas and do a little very timely area spraying in some of the pastures. The way horses move and graze are incredibly hard on pastures,

No rambling from me tonight as it is late and I need to tuck in the World’s Cutest Fainting Goats and go to bed (the crowd stands and roars!). Video and pictures from the weekend:Another video clip of the big boys taking their daily runabout. Apollo and Levendi come first, then Thomas, followed by Trigger and Elfin, then Leo, Tony, Ivan and Homer. Tony is the one trotting at the end. So many lovely movers to watch as they run around! Norman, medium pony, the embodiment of

According to Punxsutawney Phil we have six more weeks of winter. I don’t know about everyone else but I seriously considered having groundhog for dinner tonight after Phil’s announcement!! I know I shouldn’t complain to much – but let’s be honest here, when has that ever stopped me from complaining?? Anyway, we’ve had a grand total of 4.5 inches of snow so far this winter and that is a lot by our standards, especially since we just finished January. Global warming please

Hopefully I did not fry anyone’s computer when they opened this post. I got carried away and ended up posting all of the pictures I took over the last three days, which as you can see was quite a few. Anyone with a dial-up connection would be cursing my name right now! Our snow accumulation doubled on Friday and Saturday. When I last posted Thursday evening we had received a quarter of an inch of snow. Of course that closed schools for two days, and I don’t know yet if sc

I sprang out of bed at 6am this morning and immediately went to look out a window. I was excitedly anticipating our highly anticipated, much predicted snow. All of the middle Tennessee counties went ahead and closed the schools in anticipation of the snow (no I am not kidding). There was absolutely nothing on the ground, not even a flake of snow anywhere to be seen when I looked out my window this morning. What a disappointment that was! I do enjoy a nice snow day or two

Sparky the donkey and Traveller. Traveller is a large pony who did his share of winning in the pony hunters. Faune; Faune is a Selle Francais (affectionately known as the ‘Big French Guy’ since he is 17.3) and was a very successful show hunter. Buffy and MyLight; both are Thoroughbred mares. Buffy is a retired show hunter and MyLight is a retired dressage horse. Billy, Jo (world’s cutest fainting goat along with Mina) and Bubba grazing in the shade. #pictures

The last few days have been fairly quiet, and also very pleasant, around the farm. Ivan has been acting 100% normal since our episode from Thursday. I did have a panic attack Saturday morning as I saw a grey horse down in the field as I was walking out to feed breakfast. As I got closer I realized it was Homer simply having a nap and not Ivan. Then on Sunday morning Ivan was napping as I went out to feed breakfast. Ivan is a huge napper and this is not unusual for him but see

This is going to have to be another pictures only post, no ramblings or random thoughts from me again. (The crowd stands and roars in approval). It has been a really busy week this week and I’m behind on life so enjoy the pictures. Have a great weekend! Norman #pictures

Three bays; O’Reilly, Snappy and Slinky #pictures