but all three of our horses are now gone. Both Mark and I weren't able to ride over the past few years, and it had gotten to be a real problem about going out there to the barn and dealing with them.
But I'm really glad we didn't just sell them to people we didn't know. Instead now Shadow, my really gorgeous horse, is living at our best friends, Janet and Mike. They had five horses already, but when I let her know that we had to remove OUR horses, Janet said she'd really like to take Shadow. Shadow is younger and much taller that our other horses, so she hauled her up to their place and she's just fine up there now. I love seeing her when we visit them often.
And the other two horses - Duke and Arthur - are now over at the place just across the road where they get people to come practice riding on all their horses -- they have something like 20 or so horses over there. People who come ride can eventually let those folks buy a horse from them if they're good enough to handle a horse. But since there's less than a mile away, we can go over there occasionally and watch folks riding those horses we sent over to them. For instance, here's a very young little girl who was about to ride Duke.
When we go over there, we can pet our horses, but if someone eventually decides to buy Duke or Arthur we probably wouldn't be able to visit with those horses any more. But it is much better to have them over there than we would have been able to sell them to anyone ourselves because we can watch anyone riding who might want one of our horses. And they don't let anyone buy one untill they ride over there so those folks can be sure they'd be able to handle them correctly. So eventually at least when those folks who have them selling them, at least that would be folks who would have been good about dealing with them. They would have been riding them there so they could check them out. So those folks never sell a horse unless those people are good at handling them.
Anyway -- two previous horses are over there now. But Arthur has a bit of a problem in one of his feet so no one was able to ride him when we were over there last weekend. But there's taking good care of him and keeping him inside so his feet will be getting better.
As for us, we've been doing SO much about changing out the barn and all since the horses are gone. I guess I'll show you when we're doing over there later on - but I haven't taken any photos about that at the moment.
Well, I'll try and remember to fill out this "Life as We Know It" blogger sooner because I've let SO much time gone before filling this up again today. Sigh.
But I'm really glad we didn't just sell them to people we didn't know. Instead now Shadow, my really gorgeous horse, is living at our best friends, Janet and Mike. They had five horses already, but when I let her know that we had to remove OUR horses, Janet said she'd really like to take Shadow. Shadow is younger and much taller that our other horses, so she hauled her up to their place and she's just fine up there now. I love seeing her when we visit them often.
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| There is Shadow back behind one of their other horses - but she was watching us visiting there then! |
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| Here's that little girl who's about to ride Duke out in the large property. |
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| And here she goes out to the big area where she can get up on him. |
When we go over there, we can pet our horses, but if someone eventually decides to buy Duke or Arthur we probably wouldn't be able to visit with those horses any more. But it is much better to have them over there than we would have been able to sell them to anyone ourselves because we can watch anyone riding who might want one of our horses. And they don't let anyone buy one untill they ride over there so those folks can be sure they'd be able to handle them correctly. So eventually at least when those folks who have them selling them, at least that would be folks who would have been good about dealing with them. They would have been riding them there so they could check them out. So those folks never sell a horse unless those people are good at handling them.
Anyway -- two previous horses are over there now. But Arthur has a bit of a problem in one of his feet so no one was able to ride him when we were over there last weekend. But there's taking good care of him and keeping him inside so his feet will be getting better.
As for us, we've been doing SO much about changing out the barn and all since the horses are gone. I guess I'll show you when we're doing over there later on - but I haven't taken any photos about that at the moment.
Well, I'll try and remember to fill out this "Life as We Know It" blogger sooner because I've let SO much time gone before filling this up again today. Sigh.
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