End of January

Time flies when you're busy!



Butterscotch



Kathy and Donna



We have a new pony: Butterscotch. She arrived on Friday. She's a half Arab, about 26 years old. She needs her teeth floated and her feet done, and lots of loving. Kathy D. has offered to sponsor her as well as Donna - thank you very much!


Peanut (Rock My Dreams) is sold. He's leaving today. He's moving to the farm behind us to be a friend for a 3 year old boy. They're looking for a companion for Peanut, too. Pebbles (Dreaming of Chocolate) is going there for a few days to help Peanut settle in. Peanut and Pebbles went to Peanut's new home in the back of the mini van. Talk about riding in style!

The girls came out to ride this week - they're done their exams for now. Back to school again on Monday, but we really enjoyed their company (and all the work that they do) this week!

We had great news about Silver. The woman who owns him has confirmed that she believes the horse in our photos is her stallion and is willing to sell us his papers. All we're waiting for now is confirmation from the DNA registry that he is CW's Totally Silver, and then we'll be able to market him as a purebred Morgan stud. He's such a sweet stallion! I hope to get him ready to do Training level dressage this summer.

Delilah is being considered for a breeding lease. She's a Canadian Sport Horse approved broodmare, and we found someone who would like to lease her to get a nice Sport Horse foal. If things work out, she'll go live at their farm to be bred and only come back after her foal is weaned next year.

Serge is making great progress on the tack room. Soon, we'll have an enclosed room for tack storage. We used Air Miles to get Rona gift certificates to pay for a lot of the materials. If you don't already collect Air Miles and would like to collect them to help us purchase more materials for the farm, please let us know. Mom can order more cards with the same number so that they all accumulate in one account. If you have Air Miles that you would like to redeem for certificates to donate, we'd love that, too. 375 Air Miles can be redeemed for a $50 Rona gift certificate - and that can buy a lot of fence wire, isolators, or wood for stalls and the tack room.

Thank you to all Mom's friends who keep donating shredded paper! It saves us a lot of money on shavings, and composts really well in the manure pile.

The vet will be out for "teeth day" on Thursday. Several horses need their teeth checked or floated, and Beauty (Beautiful Dreamer) needs two extracted. Pebbles and Peanut may also be gelded that day - the vet will let us know if it's the right time.
The farrier was out last week to trim hooves. He did about half of the herd and will be back next month to do the rest.


EastWind Pony Club news

We're up to 5 members this year: Miella, Emma M., Kaitlyn, Christina and Daphne. We have a couple more people considering joining, and Emma H. and Dawn C. are still considering renewing. Four of our members have signed up for Winter Camp in March already.

We're practicing for Quiz now. Quiz is in April, and all of our members will compete at the "entry" level this year. Mom found some old Quiz tests and we'll work through them in our meetings, as well as practice possible games. We're also practicing parts of the bridle and saddle and Pony Club grooming.

Summerfest Breeders' Show 2010

Yes, I know I'm way behind. The gremlins in my computer ate the post that I wrote way back when, so now I'm going to try to catch up.



We took Beauty, Pebbles, Daisy and Peanut to the Summerfest Breeders Show at Kemptville College on August 1st, 2010.



Daisy and Beauty went in the Broodmare (Pony) Class, and Beauty placed 1st, with Daisy placing 2nd. I showed Daisy, and Mom showed Beauty. Susan B and Serge took care of the foals.

Next was the Pony Foal of 2010 class. Peanut and Pebbles were in that class, along with another foal. Pebbles won the class and Peanut placed 3rd. Serge did a great job with Pebbles and I showed Peanut - both of them were so little it seemed like an awfully long run around the ring, even though the judges had us only use half of the outdoor ring.



Since Pebbles won his class, he had to go in the Champions class. In that class, he was up against a lot of much bigger ponies - yearlings, 2-3 year olds and more.



Pebbles won that class, too, qualifying him for the Sport Pony Challenge at the Royal Winter Fair in November!!!! He won a Champion ribbon, a Sport Pony ribbon, a cooler, and a bag of feed.

Beauty went in the Champion Broodmare class, showing against the winners of the CSH and Open broodmare classes. She was Reserve Champion!! Pretty amazing for a little mare that mom bought at Galetta Auction a few years ago, along with her daughter, Firecracker.





Poor Peanut! He was so tired at the end of the day that he fell asleep with his ribbon back at the trailer. He was only 1 month old - and had to run with his mom in every class.



Mom with Beauty and her 1st place ribbon.



Beauty and Pebbles, both showing off their ribbons.



The end result - a ton of ribbons, a cooler (for Pebbles - and all his friends), feed, treats and other stuff.



Pebbles' ribbons and cooler!

We're not sure that he'll ever grow into it, but it's a pretty cooler and we'll find a pony to wear it eventually.

Thank you very much to Susan B for all her help - we couldn't have run all those circles without you to help with the ponies.

Liberty Shots - Heather Swan

Heather Swan of Liberty Shots came out to the farm early one morning (July 10, 2010) and spent a couple of hours taking fabulous pictures of the horses and ponies. Mom was here, too, and took a few pictures of Heather taking photos - and smooshing on the ponies.

Pebbles was his usual human friendly self and presented himself for scratchies!

Heather and me being mobbed by the ponies - Breezy thought scratchies while she was lying down were a great idea!

If you ever want to have professional portraits taken of you and your horse/pony, be sure to call Heather. She is patient, horse-friendly, and takes amazing photos.

Heather has graciously given us permission to use some of her photos on the blog (with attribution) and several prints of our favorites. She also came to our Open Barn and donated a print of one her shots of the McCullough Peaks Wild Horse Range mustangs to our silent auction.

This is a picture that Heather took of Pebbles (Dreaming of Chocolate) when he decided to have a nap.

There are many other, equally adorable, pictures of Peanut, Shawn, Candy and Anabelle - it made it really hard to choose which ones we should have printed!

Thank you very much for coming out to the farm, Heather! Feel free to come back any time.