Random thoughts - and photos - from the weekend

It's been three years since we moved in. It may be hard to believe, but when we moved here, there were no fences, no fields; just the barn and the swimming pool and a small area cleared where the winter paddocks are. Everything else was bush and scrub trees.

In the last three years, we've cleared fields for paddocks, cleared trails in the bush, put up miles and miles of fences and fence posts, and rescued and put up for adoption many horses.

Happy third anniversary, Dreamscape! We hope we have many more happy anniversaries here and make still more progress this year. Maybe we'll finally find the money tree and be able to build an arena, new barn, and put up more post and rail fences... No sense in keeping dreams small - we might as well dream big and hope we can do even more.

Laura and her Mom came out to see Neala and Gwen on Saturday - and fed them Apple Snax. Both Neala and Gwen really like Apple Snax - really, really like them. Laura brought Neala a new blue halter, too. It's not on in this picture, but it was before Laura left. Both Neala and Gwen are learning a lot - Neala is an escape artist and if she's outside with her mom, she gets out of the electric fence and goes exploring. We're adding boards to the riding ring (where we have them quarantined for now) to keep her in. No one likes to go out and catch horses at 3-4 am in the dark!

Roo has most of his feathers back now. He is very happy in the coop with the hens and happily strutted around in the pen yesterday in the mild weather.

All the hens lay eggs now, but not every hen lays an egg every day. Some are still pretty tiny, but they're getting bigger.

Chubby Cheeks, the rabbit, was renamed Einstein. He has wild hair much like the photos of the scientist, Albert Einstein, especially when it's a bit static-y from being brushed. Einstein is very patiently having his mats removed - he likes to be brushed, but some of his mats are thick enough that we have to cut them out.

He's a big fuzzy rabbit - and he's not afraid of the cat (Stripe is afraid of him, but curious) - or even Jasper.

Jasper was shocked when Einstein hopped up on his back when he was snoozing in the living room! Jasper was very good, though, and didn't hurt Einstein even though he couldn't figure out how to play with him. It was very funny to watch Einstein crawl all over Jasper and even under him. Mom and I giggled for about 20 minutes as Jasper tried to figure out what to do about the rabbit.

Thank you!

Thank you to Laplante Chevrolet in Casselman - they donated shredded paper for bedding last week. I traded in my Neon on a newer used car there, too!