TBT: Half Brother

Because who doesn't love baby horse pictures?! Here's one of Bobby's half brothers (the 2007 model by Oratory) as a two month old foal.

TBT: Bobby's First Event

way back in 2011

these were the first xc jumps he'd ever seen, and he jumped around like a pro

also his first full course of stadium jumps

those knees tho

a green ribbon for a greenie baby event horse

TBT: Red Pony

The Red Pony knew no greater joy in life than rolling in the biggest puddle he could find. These pictures are from 2009 when I had him boarded at the college I went to, and just before I sold him.

freshly bathed and clipped.

searching out the perfect spot...

nothing beats standing water for a good roll.

full coverage. mission complete.

In exciting blog news, I'm veeeerrrryyyy slowly starting to add labels to some of my more fun posts. You can now find some of the dressage conversations between Bobby and myself, all the Wordless Wednesday works of .gif art, and can reference back to the scintillating lesson fees discussions. Eventually I'll label all of the hoof posts. Plus, I finally added a search bar so that if you can't wait for that, search for it your fucking self. I'm not here to serve you, bitches.

In other exciting blog news, I intend to have another contest/giveaway for when I reach 200 followers. I'd like to do this by June so I have the cash to fund such extravagance (I don't actually have any idea what the giveaway will be at this point), so bring forth the new readers!

TBT: Baby Bobby Learns to Pony

with former ex-roper and all around champion jackson as his mentor.

bobby clearly paying no attention to us.

"herp derp. i do not understand this game."

perfectly respectable baby racehorse in the making.
(and, as a long yearling, already taller than his pony horse.)

he never did grow into his ears.

TBT: Farm Life

Since the latest bout of fucking snow is coming down, BM and I have to cancel our Thursday dog sled team meeting. I can't get out of the driveway, and I'm certainly not driving down our unplowed road as it continues to snow its balls off.

Instead, I figured I'd do a post of some of my favorite pictures from when Hubby and I were farming in NY before we moved down here and became rural suburbanites. I swear that's a real thing.

we did a lot of relief milking for our fabulous neighbor.
the kelpie was always willing to help feed the calves.

my pygmy buck, napolean, ruled the homestead.

my exceptionally expensive pygmy mama and her twins.

just a goat in a truck.

hard working farm dogs.

baby goats with the wrong mamas.

checking the bee hives.

my brother on storm.

out of our entire raised bed, i grew one flower.

storm and napolean were besties. they were constantly harassing each other.

4' of snow in one day. bring it, pa.

proof we lived in the middle of nowhere: while we obviously had fencing,
storm and the goats had free rein of the entire property. 

storm helping bag and tag corn for the goats 

we bought him for me, but he liked men so much more. hubby rode him a lot.

my awesome pig barky drinking her morning goat milk.

she knew how to sit on command

the fat cat with his chickens and ducks.

baby goat out for a ride.