Horses, Equine

If you would like to meet an old hand with horses, you have come to the right place. My experience of forty plus years speaks for itself. I have a Certificate from our Local Extention Office from OSU for my 11 years of being a 4-H Advisor in Marion County. My 4-H kids were one of the first Horseless Horse Kids. (The kids that wanted to show horses but did not have one). Sometimes, they would showed my horses. I am also a CHA Certified Horsemanship Instructor and Lifetime member. In the beginning it was not like that at all. I was always backwards and embarrassed. 

I taught myself everything about horses with help by observing others, lots of reading, and practicing.

My first horse was Flicka, she was a medium sized Quarter pony about 12 hands, she was a beautiful bay. Flicka was 1 1/2 yrs old, and not broke, she was the first horse that I broke and trained by myself. I was only 13 years old, when I bought her for myself. With my bicycle money. Look for some of those stories to come. 

My parents had never owned a horse before and knew nothing about them. I learnt to ride the hard way, by falling off and getting right back on. I was a very stubborn young lady that never liked to give up, I still do not give up very easliy. I hit the ground more times than I care to remember. I still have A LOT OF BATTLE WOUNDS from all my wonderful experiences. Take it from an old pro the older you get the more painful those battle scars become. You really do not want to be as stubborn as I.

I started this Blog because, I never want any kids to learn like I did, by themselfs the hard way. It wasn't really my parents fault they didn't know anything about horses. I was a very good kid that paid for my own first pony. My parents just wanted me to be happy, just like any good parent.

Since then, I have bought, sold, boarded, traded, bred, raised, and trained Horses. I love to try to help horse lovers with their horses, especially you kids. If you have any problems, questions, concerns or just want to chat about horses. This is the place for you, you do not have to own a horse just be A TRUE HORSE LOVER.

The horse in the photo with me is: Miss Lady Starlight

Star was one of my first horses. My mamma bought her for me for $50.00 when she was 22 months old. I broke and trained her, too. She died in 2001, at the nice old age of 27 and 3/4. I had her for about 26 years. She was gray with a Star, Snip, and Stripe, but you can't tell that from this picture of her. She changed colors every year and people always thought I had bought a new horse. It was great.

 I am practically a professional when it comes to gray horses. I been raising them for 35 years. In fact almost all of my foals have been gray.

 I never won in a hole lot of big horse shows, I did do pretty good in a few. I never really cared to get into the show circut much. I especially like to go trail riding. If you would like to make any comments or have any questions. Give me a holler

Kids : PLEASE GET HELP PICKING OUT YOUR FIRST PONY, OR HORSE. 

To the parents out there: PLEASE LEARN ABOUT WHAT YOUR KIDS WANT BEFORE YOU LET THEM GET INVOLVED with horses or ponies.

Surprised Me

I have not been here enough this year. For some odd reason,  my horse got dropped off on my door step in the middle of town. That was a shock for all of us at our house, it's a good thing I still had horse fence and gates around, they came in handy. 

 My cousins husband is a little strange, to my face he acted like taking care of my mare was no problem. Then dumps her on my door step.

 We were suppose to be able to ask for a permit to keep farm animals in our yard, in town, if we have enough room, which I do, so I ran up to the Health Department and put in my app. for a permit.

 Low and behold of course they will not give out permits for that anymore. We can own property but CAN NOT have anything we want on it. 

I explained to him that she (my last horse) got dumped in my yard. He so graciously gave me a whole week to get her out of my yard.  I tried all week long diligently to find her a new place. At that time, there really was not many places around here that rent out stalls. 

This horse was kinda a basket case when I first bought her. Her name was even Flippa. She spooked all the time, about anything, but she would spook in place. Thats why I bought her.  We call her Flicka

She shocked me so much during that week, I was under the impression since I do not get to spend much time with her, that she was a little spooky.  Boy has she fooled me, she is the perfect horse now. She was a lady all week long in my back yard.

Now for the rest of the story.  Not even 5 days later, (remember the Health Dept. gave me a week, I thought that was 7 days )  I had the health dept., the cops,  and the Humane Society at my door. I had just found her a place to live and had planned on moving her the next morn.  My daughter the one leading the horse went out first to tell them that we had planned on moving her the next morn.

 The Humane Society was threatening to take her and my daughter was throwing a major fit. I suppose that is why the police were there.  As you can see there is nothing wrong with the mares  health. I finally made it out calmed everyone down. Explained to them all, that I was planning on moving her the next day. They of course, said, (that if we did not get her out of there by then that they would have to help me get a place for her to stay and monitor her). We moved our mare the next day to a nice Amish mans house, Him and his kids take excellent care of her and lots of others along with their own. 

That was what happened at the beginning of my summer. Since then I  have had 2 more grandsons and another one on the way. Making my total of grandchildren 8 very soon. I have been very busy taking care of them this year. It is calming down now and Soon I hope to remember lots more horse stories from my past.  So,  keep checking back, and tell all of your horsey friends. 

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GO FIGURE

Hi everyone! I still do not get on here much these days. With 6 grand children and a new job I am pretty busy.  I do not have my own Internet connection and driving around using others is a pain in the neck. Its does bother me that I can not get on here as much. 

I had my horses in the city right beside the public fairgrounds. When I bought the house I called the city council, the fairgrounds, and the City Police Dept. They all said it was fine they had no laws or what ever against it, just keep the manure cleaned up which was not a problem. 

I get my horses all moved into there new home. The my mare and her colt passed away as I wrote in my last blog. Just when I thought everything was gonna be great by having my horses in the back yard. 

Go figure, the city council decides to put restrictions on the farm and other animals in the city. We fought and begged them for awhile so they decided to let us have them as long as we filed for a permit every year.  They made a bunch of new rules that you have to follow, etc.. 
I was planning on moving my horse to where she could have lots of pasture however, I did not file for my permit, a couple months later they sent me a letter saying, They gave me 10 days to move my horse. My boyfriend and I was having some trouble because he has a farm with pasture but I could not move my horse there because I had no job. That is one of the reasons I started working, but I was a little mad at him so I hadn't moved my horse yet. I got a job shortly thereafter. Then the city health dept. guy starts sending the humane society to my house. Well I will be damned if they take her, so I tried to find another place for her. I could not find one. 
 I finally had to brake down call one of my xxx boyfriends to see if he'd take her for me, well he did, Thank God. I did not want to tell them where she was at, I really did not think it was any of their business, after all the issue was over me having to move my mare. 

I would not tell them where she was, They issued a warrant for my arrest. I had to get a lawyer which did not really do anything but keep me out of jail, which I do appreciate. I just had to tell them where she was stabled, so they could check to see if she was there. 

The City Health Dept. had been to my house several times to see if she was there, but they could not come back to see if she was not there. They are not issuing anymore permits after next year. There you have it The fine politics  of the city at work wasting tax payers money.