Ranch Updates

Updates!

"Updates" which is exactly what it says...updates! There is always so much going on that I just wanted a place to write about anything new and exciting, but that may not fit somewhere else on the site.

12/10/07 * We have some new additions to our family. Begley and Abigail are our two new puppies/future ranch hands...Harvey is already teaching them well. They are 1/2 lab / 1/2 border collie and are very cute. We will post pictures soon.

4/25/07 * Beauty had her foal tonight...a beautiful colt. He looks like he will be a black bay and has a small lighting bolt on his forehead. Check him out in the photos!

3/30/07 * Scott worked very hard this weekend building a brand new quarantine/medical stall. It is a beautiful 12' x 12' fully enclosed box stall in the far corner of the property to be used temorarily for new comers and/or sick horses.

2/18/07 * Today we finished remodeling our roundpen and the area around it. We took down the whole round pen and then graded the ground and area around it. (thank you Scott for all your hard work on this!) Then we put the round pen back up with a kick panel on the bottom to prevent any horses getting cast in there and to help keep the sand inside rather than outside the arena. Then we replaced all of the furniture and put in a new swing...it all looks so beautiful!

10/28/06 * Today was our "3rd Annual Harvest Fest" and it was so much fun! We had a pumpkin carving contest (congratulations Shelly) and we played BINGO (congratulations to all of the BINGO winners!) and of course we finished off with our "donut on a string" game. (watch for pictures of this in the photo gallery!)

05/09/06 - 05/12/06 * Scotts family once again saved the day! Tawnya and Trevor came for 4 days and helped us rebuild all of our arena fences and they look fabulous!

12/30/05 * Today we aquired a new family memeber...HERO our blooodhound was a gift for Paiges 16th birthday that she has patiently waited for. Although probably not an ideal "ranch" dog, he is adorable!

06/18/05 * Paige put on another "ranch girls campout" and it was wonderful...although I am not sure anyone slept. We had another great scavenger hunt too (in the dark) and it was a blast! Thank you to Paige for all her hard work!

5/5/05*Taffy had her foal tonight...all by herself! We all missed it! (even with all those barn cams) We did get out there just in time to see him standing for the first time. He is very cute!

04/10/05 * Strawberry had her foal tonight at 10:40pm! It was a colt and it looks like he is going to be a palomino! He is very cute!! We will be posting pictures on our "New Foal Pictures" page.

03/20/05 * We finally got our barn cams up in Strawberry's stall and will have Taffy's up in a week or two! Thank you to Ric of www.wefoal.com for the HOURS of help getting us here! Sorry for keeping you up all night! :-) And thank you to Scott and Christopher for the late nights installing everything! Now we just wait for the babies!!

02/28/05 * This weekend we rebuilt our ranch "ZOO" pen. Mariam started it on her own but it was such a huge project that our good friend Christopher who was working on our ranch electrical projects, stepped in and really helped it turn out perfect!!! Now the lamb, goat, pig and rabbit have much more room and they love it!!   And, it is so beautiful!!! Thank you Christopher! And thank you to Julie for the help in painting!

01/21/05 * This weekend, our wonderful family once again came to our rescue! In two days, we built our brand new foaling pens which are gorgeous! They are 16 x 24 and will have an attached turnout that is 16 x 24 too. We also added two new enclosed stalls right next to the foaling pens for the mares buddies. Sometime around the middle of March, we will be installing barn cams and the births of these 2 foals can be viewed live online so check back then!!

Thanks again to Trevor, Tawnya, Andy, Traci Tory & John!!!

And Thanks also to:

Debbie, Brittany, Julie, Caitlynn, & Elizabeth for helping paint ALL of the wood siding for the barn!

12/18/04 * We had our 2nd annual boarder Christmas party and it was so much fun!! Everyone brought great food to share, we did an ornament exchange and played some fun games! One of the games we played we called "Name the Changes". Since we have worked really hard to change so many things over the last year, we wanted to see how many people could name. Tricia won, naming 52 changes! Not bad for a years work.

11/28/04 * Scotts family was here for the holiday and once again put in lots of work! We have put some partial dividers between the stalls so that the shavings and bedding everyone puts in, stays in. They look very nice. We also put up our new quarantine/medical pens. They are 12 x 12 fully enclosed box stalls and are wonderful! These were not in our original plans as the foaling pens were going to double as the medical pens...so this is a nice addition. We now hope to make this area our vets work area and will be trying to improve upon that over the next year.

11/8/04 * Last weekend was our one year anniversary at the ranch and we had a "Harvest Fest" with all of our boarders. It was a really fun party with pumpkin carving, bobbing for apples, and lots of bingo!!  Watch for some of the pictures in the photo gallery!

10/23/04 * This was a busy weekend!! Scotts Mom & Dad came up and helped us get so much done.   My personal favorite project was the turnout arena to a full 70' X 60' so it is a great riding / lunging size now.

10/12/04 * Our new tack room was put in today! It should be complete and ready to use by the beginning of next week!

10/09/04 * Our new hay barn is up and it is beautiful!! Thank you so much to our family for coming and helping us put this up (Tawnya & Trevor, Traci & Andy) and to one of our boarders (Ian) who jumped right in to help as well!

              10/02/04 * The boarder tack room has been officially outgrown! So, a new one will go in the end of this month.

10/01/04 * We will be starting on our new hay barn next week, however, we need to take down two buildings to put it up so it may get messy...YIKES! Beware of CONSTRUCTION!   ha ha

09/21/04 * Scott got his own horse this month! His name is Shadow and we will get to use him for lessons when Scott is on duty...he is an awesome horse and very sweet!! (check the lesson page for pictures!!)