NEWS - Jul & Aug 09

***Aug - 28 - Sierra - Color Guard - WHHS football game. ***Madira chooses "Massage vs pain relivers" for her Senior Project. ***27 - J rides herself outside of round pen. *** L gets lots of practice on her own in the roundpen and does balancing exercises.

*** Dr. Dean, DVM from Southern Oaks Animal Hospital arrives and all 4 of the children get to watch as he does shots and coggins for Sami & Flower. Sami is gelded, does great and is very "drunk" when allowed to get up. Stuffy has blood drawn to see if she's in foal. Rhythem is examined and it's determined that the problems she's having are due to a broken elbow - to learn more she'll need exrays. ***26 - School starts. *** 25 - J rides on her own outside of round pen. Practicing w/t and turn/stops. ***L practices riding in the round pen by herself. She wants to go out, but doesn't want to practice her stops & turns outside...

*** 20 - After warming up in the roundpen, J does a lot of riding offline on a trail walk. *** L and Stuffy also go out - but they are on the line. Stuffy's leather bridle breaks when doing water work and it's "jerry rigged". The "new" braided one will be completed soon.

***18 - J is riding more on her own. Practice going over cavaletti. *** L is riding on her own in round pen. She's working over cavaletti to get her balance. Still having many steering problems, but it'll come. Stuffy is patient. ***14 - "Magic" is better. *** 13 - Morning - "Magic" found in wrong pasture (nearer AJ) w/0 water. *** late afternoon - Jasmine & Laura ride. Laura cleans "Stuffy's" hooves by herself. 2nd time in roundpen. Both girls bothered by helmets w/ new hairstyle - Jas has a headache. "Magic" off as well - and acting colicy when lesson finished. Given an Epsom Salt drench.




***11 - Jasmine & Laura ride. 1st time in roundpen - work loose - "Magic" unhappy with this. Laura just laughing happy.



*** 10 - Round pen post replaced by Larry & gate re-hung (YEA!!). Skye finishes mowing the back pasture. Sierra & Danielle clean the Star paddock. *** 9 - Paula spends morning mowing the front yard & Rhythem paddock. The afternoon is spent mowing the roundpen pasture and 1/2 the back pasture. *** 8 - Ashley (spending the weekend) & Sierra ride and take pics of ponies. Flower is 3 1/2 months old. ***





*** 4 - Jasmine rides "Magic". No rein exercises - arm stretch, trunk twister, touching dock & poll. Rein handling - guiding over obstacles on the ground. Laura has forgotten shoes & socks - so doesn't get to ride. ***


*** July 28 - Jasmine riding "Magic".



Laura rides "Stuffy" - need to get boots/heeled shoe.



*** July 25 - Jasmine rides "Magic". Laura is introduced to "Stuffy" - scared but willing to pet her. She graduates to sitting on her bareback and getting led around. She watches Jasmine's lesson and realizes that she, too, wants to ride. *** 4 - WH JROTC goes to the Carolina Lakes Independence Day Parade. They are split into 4 groups - Jeeps, Horse, Joint Service and Color Detachment. ***

NEWS - May & Jun 09

*** June 26 - Sammy is 8 months old. Bath pics.


***20 - pics of "Flower" in her fuzzy baby coat.

***13 - WH JROTC performs opening ceremony at WHHS Graduation and provides an Honor Guard w/ swords for Seniors. I didn't take pics and haven't received any from others. *** 9 - WH JROTC provides an Honor Guard at the WHHS Baccalaureatte.


*** May - 25 - WH JROTC Joint Color Guard & Motor Pool participates in Memorial Day Dedication at Lillington, NC Veteran's Park. ***

NEWS - Apr & Mar 09

***Apr - *** 25 - Stretching/flexing has done "Flower" good.



***21 - Flower is born. Star doing great. Flower is standing up on her rear hoof toes. We start a stretching and flexing regiman. ***



*** 7 - Fuzzy ponies - still in full winter winter coats. ***

***Mar - 14 - Paula & Sierra attend the Military Ball. ***

NEWS - Jan & Feb 09

*** February - 20 - "Stuffy" is out of season. *** 14 Valentine's Day - "Stuffy" is in season and is bred to "Iggy". "Stuffy" pulls manure tubs to compost heap now...
*** Many people have asked about my "braiding". I started out braiding haystring as practice before purchasing Paracord to make horse-y items. BUT I've found this is good - the hay string works well for outdoor horse-y items, easy to hose off and our local landfill is VERY HAPPY that I'm not bringing all that string from both small square and large round bales to them anymore. *** I've use the 3 strand braid (actually strands for each "string" - so 6 strands) for rope - temporary fencing, gates, stall guards, tye straps for equipment. One shows in the rear shot above. Use a flat braid to do the collars that all of our ponies and some of the horses are now wearing - making it easy to identify them and catch/tie them for feeding 2x daily. ***



*** Jan - 18 - Ashley (spending the night) and Sierra take lots of pics of the ponies.



*** 10 - WH JROTC motor pool meets to work on jeep. *** WH JROTC goes to Mrytle Beach, SC to perform for the 4th Brigade Conference. *** 7 - "Stuffy" and "Magic" return from Karen Eaker. ***