A horse photographer...I'm not!
These turkeys are harder to work with than kids and as bad as dogs :P
These turkeys are harder to work with than kids and as bad as dogs :P
Today's focus here at this house has been anything but the celebration of our country's independence.
But sometimes, my daughter seems to hide her intelligence.
My company a) doesn't believe me when I say I'm married w/two kids or b) has money they can't figure out how to spend so hiring an outside audit firm to do a stupid review of "eligible dependents" seemed like a good place to waste some $$$.
How can it be that we've already gone from here:
Between work, horses, kids, school, softball...things have been completely crazy around here. I can't believe we're alredy in June. I'm switching to a Typepad template for a bit until I have a few minutes to work on a new banner design.
Yesterday I attended a great clinic at Valhalla Minature Horse Farm. It was a introduction to driving a miniature horse and cart. I had a great time and learned quite a lot! The other attendees were really friendly and welcoming. I learned about the Mason Dixon Miniature Horse Club and their upcoming events. I cannot wait to learn more and meet more of these great miniature horse people. We're going to go to the show in Thurmont, MD next Sunday to get taste of what that's like!
Much thanks to Kathy and Linda for their great information! Can't wait to learn more from these fabulous ladies :)
And what would a visit to a miniature horse farm be without a couple of pictures of the babies? Here's just a couple of my favorites:
Here's the first pic with a cool effect from Picnik!
Tonight our friend (and former babysitter) Katie came over to give us some lessons in horse care. Her friend Dave came along too. The idea was to give Izzy a bath, trim some of her mane, give me some pointers on hoof cleaning and anything else she could think of.
It all went pretty well. Katie even worked with Izzy and some lead training. Definitely gave some things to work on myself now that I've seen it done by someone used to working with horses.
We do have our work cut out for us! Here's an updated pic of the little girl. She's still a bit of a fuzzy-wuzzy but little by little the woolies are coming off.
You know those baby announcements that were/are so popular? The ones that say "Have you heard? Our family has grown by 2 feet!" Pretty cute aren't they?
It's all my husband's fault. He's the one who found the ad. He's the one who insisted I call. And after I called, he's the one who said we should go look.
On what? On getting Izzy a buddy! Sometime this week (hopefully), Izzy's new sister will be delivered to her new home. Her name is Cha Cha. She's a 10 yr old brown and white paint mare. She's from the same farm as Lexie, the girl we looked at about 3 weeks ago. We looked at a couple of yearlings today but after much discussion, decided our best choice was to stick with adding an older mare to our "herd". The idea being that the older mare will help Izzy learn how to behave like a good horse :-)