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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The Race

Flicka turned out to be a very good pony. I kept her at a local stable. It was probably about 3 miles to my house. I use to ride her to town quite often. I would ride her into my house just to spend time with her and do something different. When I rode her to town lots of younger children would stop me, to pet and ride the pony. I really enjoyed sharing her with everyone, she was such a good little pony. I always let them pet her. I was afraid to let them ride, I did not want any little ones to get hurt.

There is one particular day I remember the most. I had taken Flicka to Nancy's house a few blocks away from my house. On my way home one of the boys I went to school with rode up on his new bicycle. 

All you girls know what happened next. Yes, he started,  Bragging about his new bicycle ," my new bike is faster than your pony, I'll race you". I knew my pony was faster than his bike but he kept at me. "come on race me" "chicken". Come on race me". Well being the competitive, daredevil young lady I am I jumped right on it.

We went running down the street as fast as we could go. This is the part where you need to pay close attention. 

I was on the left, he was on the left, Paying attention ? Remember I was about 13 years old. Flicka is my first pony.

Flicka and I were running fast as we could down the middle of my street Then I seen my house, we got to the front of my house with Flicka in the lead, I turned Flicka towards my house, which was on the right. Flicka, poor baby, ran into his new bike, jumped up high in the air just (trying to miss that bicycle). Like a rodeo horse, kicked out at the bike, and  went running into the back yard. I went flying over her shoulders rolled smack into the big walnut tree in front of my house.

Oh, my gosh my head hurt so bad I could barely get up. The neighbors went after Flicka, she was in the back yard, eating grass of course. 

They carefully walked me over to set on my porch. Well Flicka was fine but Larry's bicycle well that was a different story. It was not even rideable. Flicka broke the spokes out, and bent the rim, lol. So much for that new bicycle.

Lesson for the day. Remember everyone, I was only about 13 years old,  with little to no horse experience. As I set there in total disbelief and in shock. I finally figured out just what happened.

Guess What? *** Horses and ponies they turn much, much faster than bicycles. 

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Bummed

Owning horses and not having your own place anymore is a bummer. I enjoyed having my own Stable very very much. It is so nice being able to go out your back door to see your horses. It is just like keeping a very large dog around. They follow you around and are very nosey. I have not been out to see my horses lately. I am kinda bummed about it. I do enjoy them so much. I will make it a top priority on my list of things to do.

Sharing horses and Experiences with you

I bought one of Stars fillies back, her name is Stars Velvet Lace. She was, bred, born and trained on my farm. Yes, I done all of her training. I trained her very well according to the owner of the farm shes lived at for the last 10 years. She was one of their top riding horses, at Marmon Valley Farm, a Christian Riding Camp in Bellefountaine, Ohio. We had to sell her when she was about 4 years old. The same old problem all true horse lovers have, to many horses. She was born in 1993 and her sire is out of Merry Go Boy a foundation sire of the Tennessee Walking Horse. Her Dam was of course Miss Lady Starlight.

I am so happy to have her back, she is one of my horses first foals, Star. She was born on my birthday. What a wonderful birthday present that was from my old horse.








I also bought two other mares pictured above, they are both Tennessee Walkers। These pictures are from when we first brought them home। Pepper is the little Paint mare, she is 4 this year। Glory is the black mare, she is 13 years old। They are all very nice mares, and ride great