Lacy comes for a visit.....

Lacy was coming up the road when I snapped this shot of Gilly, I love this picture of him. I changed it to sepia tone and it really popped out. He is standing by the fence looking through the trees and down to the roadway.

Lacy is watching Gilly run down off the hill behind the barn. She had been whinnying to Gilly as he came to the fence. This is the first time Kim has ridden her in awhile, she was pretty happy to see Gilly and Pokey.

Now to the problems with trailer mats! I thought they would go in easily, NOT!!!! They are six feet and my trailer is supposed to be six feet wide but NO it is five feet eleven and a half inches! So every one of them has to be cut in some way. The first one had to have notches to fit around the back posts by the door, plus the half inch off one side. Second one has to have half inch off one side but then were was another problem. Just past the escape door the trailer wall is not as thick as the back of the trailer so it is over six feet......ugh.....now I think we will have to run the mats from the nose back then trim the long sides. I will have to take pictures to show when we are finished. We have found that using a saber saw works pretty well but boy is that rubber hard to cut.......
Rats, if it's not one thing it's another!!!!!
Oh, tried to move the trailer around, did some backing......oh, my!! It was ugly; sigh, I see lots of practice in my future before Gilly and I hit the road! :-(

Tagged...6th photo from 6th picture folder...

Angie tagged me with the instructions to take the 6th photo from my 6th folder on my computer and the post and blog about it. Well of course it would be a picture of Gilly, I have hundreds of pictures of him on my computer....I mean after all what else is there to take pictures of????
This picture was taken in January before he had his feet trimmed, the day I got kicked, 8 weeks ago. Snow on the ground then today it's in the mid 50's this morning and hopefully it will get warmer as the day goes on but it looks like it could rain too so I guess no riding today!
OK, now on to business, I have to tag 6 other people to play the tagged game! Lets see now....

Heart of a Cowgirl
Black Feather Farm
Jesse's Desert Rose
Art by Gail Ragsdale
Art of Scotland
A Cowgirl's Grace

Now I have to run over to this great sites to tell them that they have been tagged to play or not. If you don't want to that's OK, but we would love to see your photos! :-)
Let's go!!!

New Pony in Hollow

There's a new kid on the block, so to speak! Lacy has a new friend but they aren't buddies just yet. Princess the pony is now with Lacy for a companion but they didn't hit it off right at first. Princess came from a place with a lot of other horses, ponies and a donkey (good, she won't freak out when she gets to meet Pokey!) The people that had her before never put her in the barn and she didn't even have a run in shed to get into. She looks a little rough right now, she was a show pony at one time.

Last Friday when Kim and I went to get her it poured the rain for half an hour before we got her into the trailer. These pictures were taken when we got her home so he is a little ratty looking. She will look lots better this summer when the rough coat of winter hair comes off and all the good food gets in her; and she is wormed.
She wasn't too interested in Lacy at first; yes, there was lots of squealing and snorting going on. A kick or two but nothing major; she spent most of her first hour looking the fence over and hunting for her buddies she left behind.
How hard that must be for a horse, dog or other animal to be taken away from the place they know and their friends. Get onto a trailer, then back off into strange surroundings and a strange horse to deal with. It's almost heartbreaking to think of how we would feel in the same circumstance; she will have a good home at Kim's and be well taken care of. Good food, dry warm shelter and another friend to play with; and will get to meet Gilly and Pokey in time but still, it's kinda sad.

Kim's boxer Sophie had to run and play with her, although she didn't pay much attention to her. Sophie is a clown and always has to play with Gilly and Pokey when they come down. She will chase the horses for awhile then they will chase her; till all of them are worn out. The pony will learn this too.

All the running and chasing around finally came to a halt, with the pony still trying to figure out just where she was. Sophie on the other side with her tongue hanging out.
I talked to Kim today and she said that the two are doing much better together. But they aren't good enough friends just yet to eat their hay together and Princess is now named May-Belle but that could change too! Kim hasn't decided for sure on her new name; she doesn't know the name Princess so a new name is in store. Any suggestions on a name and I will pass it on to Kim???

Cowboy.....

Now THIS is my idea of a COWBOY!! (sigh) Tom Selleck, oh, there are others too, Sam Elliott for one they look so good as cowboys. I have a BIG collection of their cowboy movies.
(Yes, it's crappy weather here and I haven't been out taking pictures...sigh...so I'm dreaming a little....of spring and cowboys!! LOL)
I hope that spring is just around the corner, I am so tired of this cold, snowy, icy, muddy, unbearable weather! The winter doldrums, if the sun would peek out it would help.

Tomorrow my friend Kim and I are going to get her new companion pony for Lacy. Lacy will be thrilled to have a companion of her own. She always tries to steal Pokey from Gilly; it never works though. I will have the camera ready tomorrow to get some action shots!
later.......