Hafy Halloween

Camryn being a creative kind of girl took it upon herself to come up with a Halloween costume.  Can you guess what she is?  Scroll down to find out....

 A HORSE TRAILER!!!

Now tell me isn't that creative? 
As a side note, she's probably pretty depressed right now, I know I am.  We almost got her a real horse trailer.  One of those deals that sounded to good to be true. "It was."  Luckily, I investigated a bit before sending the cash as it was a scam.  So, Camryn still has be be her own horse trailer.

bit of a windy ride today

Have been impatiently waiting a wind free day.  Just not going to happen it appears.  Except a quick naked ride (Camryn was naked not me), around the pasture on Sun., it's been nearly two weeks.  So today we girls decided to saddle up and ride.  Danette on Dakota and Lori on Eclipse met me on their horses at the back of my woods and we headed to Danette's arena.  Danette lives one house over from me, she has a home barn with her two horses and Lorie's horse.  She then has a boarding barn w/indoor arena, which can be accessed off another road or via the woods.  We generally use the woods with Camryn and I meeting up where our properties merge.  On our rides Camyrn doesn't much care if she's lead, middle or last, today we chose first.  Eclipse (Arab) normally leads, though he'll just go with the flow as well, Dakota (Spotted Saddle Horse) is the only one of the three with a preference, leading is not in her vocabularyry unless perhaps we're headed to her home barn, then she might choose to lead.  Something comical always occurs when Camryn is leading in front of Dakota.  Comical because Dakota is gaited so she moves out faster than Camryn.  Camryn (and I) prefer to amble along enjoying the sights.  If Dakota feels Camryn is moving to slowly, she'll reach out and lip (never uses teeth) at Camryn's ample Hafy butt.  This just cracks us up, Dakota saying "move it", with Camryn's attitude being "if you wanna go faster, why don't you lead girlfriend?" It's one of the things I so enjoy about my golden girl, she goes on totally unfazed by just about anything. Nothing exciting happened which of course is what you want in the saddle.  Doesn't read as well, personally I like boring ;)

It must be love!

Our barn isn't large by any means. Once a horse was on the way, hubby built a lovely 12x12 stall, a hay loft, made sure the water and electric were operable.  He cut down lotus trees, and turned them into fence posts, he and my oldest boy tag teamed putting these in.  Fencing in a large paddock, and pasture, I mean I could just go on and on.  Hubbies dream never involved horses or any animal beyond your basic dog out back.  But, knowing and loving me, he's made all this happen. Our barn used to house three indoor/outdoor dog runs, along with Hubby's ATV, tractor, mower, and various other husbandly DIY stuff. Several of the larger items had to move outside.  Hubby still kept his tools, and not huge items in the barn.  I had my horse stuff area, he had his hubby stuff area.  I was content and happy, not bothered with the lack of space.  Without any prompting what so ever, Hubby began moving his stuff into the shed, which is actually pretty big.  Still the ATV and what not had no real home of their own.  Sooooo, hubby solved the problem by adding on to the shed.  Is my Hubby the best or not?  I say he is!!!  disclaimer: Hubby doesn't read this blog, so this blog entry is not made in order to gain anything for myself.  Also, he doesn't have any brothers girls LOL

                                   

Not quite finished, but well on the way

Treats? Did you say treats???

Camryn food motivated?  No, never LOL

Could it be an Apple?

Please, let it be an apple...

Mmmm, doesn't look or smell like an apple...

Drat, it's just Mom and that darn camera again (SIGH)

Can you tell Camryn is getting her winter woolies in order?  I just loooove running my hands thru her winter coat, so soft, furry and warm.

BFF together

Got a pic of the BFF together.  Camryn is doing her fav thing which is eating, Onyx doing one of his fav things, which is chillin.  And I'm doing my fav things just hanging out with the two of them. 
Notice Camryn eats from a slow feed hay bag.  When she came to me in Jan. she weighed in at nearly 1400 lb, an 11 on the heinke scale.  Of course 10 is the highest!!!  Vet recommended a low starch/low sugar feed, the amount fed to a 900 lb horse.  We switched from a 2nd cut grass hay, to 1st cut, fed in the small holed bags to slow her down a bit.  Started out just riding her at a walk, adding trotting once she'd gotten in a bit better shape.Our pasture is basically just enough keep her busy without adding much weight.  Last month she weighed 1030 lb. Vet feels maintaining what I'm doing now, with riding should take off the rest needed. 

I can tell she's enjoying the weight loss, poor girl I don't think she'd been able to roll as heavy as she'd been.  Of course she thinks she's starved to death and doesn't much appreciate my concern for her health. 
Her winter coat is coming in like the fur on a teddy bear, I just love running myy hands thru it.