other colts over the years

Dixie 

Whisper

 Leroy on the left and below

Brooks

 Cody

Walker

Walker

Fancy

Bruschetta (Coyote Flats)

Grace (previously named Bruschetta

Thunder

May 15 horse meditation

 Thunder and Ben are taking us on a morning ride
This is the black colt's first ride off our property
Soon she will be handed back to their owners
Ben and I are riding to support her

 beautiful morning and newly cultivated land to place their hooves into.
 Nice and soft for their feet.

there she is taking Mantracker for a ride
very minimal "shenanigans" from Thunder and
Ben and I rode behind and beside them.
This was my first long ride this year and I am calling that my morning
meditation!

A horse moment

horse business

 it's been a busy winter filling our bellies to keep warm and fat

for spring!

Yes Thunder has been ridden a few times and learning

to move in S-curves around the large pen

thunder is a wonder

training is going so well

Mantracker has been working with her most days when weather

is not too windy.

She is now carrying a saddle. walking on a noisy crinkly sounding scary old

tarp

here are some training pictures

 wearing a halter (no prob)

 she will let me come up to her at anytime and let me pet her

and rub her back and neck

 I just love horses...

here she is going over the noisy tarp

 walk on and over tarp again

 saddle is on

 leg up first time

 halfway up 

 rub her neck to let her know it is okay

for Mantracker to be on her - she finally thought that this

was okay

 keep getting half way on for practice

will post pics once she is able to take someone riding her around

the pen

Ben, with the kind brown eye and moi!  horse smell is awesome (love)

just musing and stuff

receiving and giving

which is harder?

it depends as I know people who do not like 

to receive anything but like to be more givers.

you really cannot give if you cannot receive.  (think about it, it is deep)

it means that alot of us are not comfortable receiving compliments, gifts, admiration from others

it is important to let others be the giver.  It is a 2 way street as far as I am concerned.

Christmas is giving and receiving and talking and listening, praising and non-judging.  

Kind of special to me.

expressing honest appreciation and we must never pretend appreciation, but if we feel it we must express it.  This new horse called Thunder was untouchable up until a few days ago.  Mantracker called the pasture manager down the road who is also a farrier and has spent his life working with horses.

Thunder needed to be roped and roped gently but firmly so she could learn that the touch of a

human is not terrifying.  We are so appreciative of him coming over on his own time

and it took him 30 minutes max and he was rubbing Thunder's face and neck and back.

it was amazing to watch.  We learned an awful lot in those 30 minutes!

thanks Cliff (our community pasture manager) for your expertise.

 i just liked this photo because of the black horse and the
 red horse shelter and a bit of white snow.

 the young horse  brings a youthful vigor to our place and it is exciting.

it keeps me in the "present" and the moments for this horse is always in the now and what's in it for me.  Training, as I am sure Mantracker would agree keeps you  always in the present moment because that is all there really is when a communication and closeness is learned and it is how we relate and communicate well when, in this case, we want to keep this horse focused.

Here is Storm, our charge this last week while owner's were holidaying in Mexico

The only imperfection this dog had was she snuck a couple of ornaments off the tree and tucked them under the coffee table.  I noticed them when we got home from dropping her off.  Ha I had a good chuckle.  She could sure fly through that snow fast too.   That was funny to watch!

that is the musing post for today.

keep grounded and safe this week!

Pet Connect

How is our 2 year old mare "Thunder" making it ?  she has been with us 9 days and

she is making some really great positive moves to connect with Mantracker.  She is learning to trust him.  The weather has been so cold this last week and now it has warmed up and sunny again so he is spending more time with her yesterday and today.  She is so black and her fur so velvet that I can hardly wait to be able to rub her neck and back.

Also....We are babysitting my brother-in-law's dog "Storm".  She just arrived this afternoon
and is feeling a little lost.  She has never stayed here with us and she follows me around the house alot and is now in her little bed.  

So we now have  a"Thunder Storm" going on around here now!  ha ha!


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have a great week!

Thunder is my name-o

 this cute black "untouched" 2 year old was dropped off yesterday at our

training centre

they called her Thunder because she was born in a thunderstorm.

She has never been touched by a human so there is training to be done

by Mantracker.  This is exciting for her and for us.