More Horses!

Everybody knows our Taffy and Dakota. I know you like to read updates, so today is the day. A lot of things have happened over the past couple of months that affect Taffy…. sort of. Painted Acres Ranch moved from Andi Country in CA (I’m not quite sure I like that idea yet) to TX. The big news is . . . Painted Acres Ranch bought Rubicon, Taffy’s (and Kody’s) sire! He is so gorgeous and is billed as “the kindest stallion.” He really is a sweetheart. Check out Painted Acres by clicking this image. Or go to https://paintedacresranch.com/

Here is a 4-minute video showing off Rubicon (I call him Rube). He’s headed for a romp in the field, while Jewels, Taffy, and Kody look on from inside their temporary stalls in the huge barn that came with this 11-acres mini-ranch. If you watch the whole thing, the last part shows Taffy and Kody frolicking in the field after they have been let out of their “jail time.”

Why are the horses going in and out of “jail” (i.e. indoor stalls)? A huge Arctic blast hit us over the weekend, and we are still in the middle of it. We had to get the horses used to being stalled before it hit, so this video is from last week. The beautiful gates have still not arrived, so the stalls look “slapped together,” and they are. It’s a winter storm emergency, after all!

On Saturday night, all the horses were stabled, but it was still in the 20s inside the next morning, Sunday. And Rubicon knew Jewels was just two stalls down, and guess what! She’s in heat! Worse and worse! Almost a rodeo. But things have calmed down since then (maybe 20 degrees inside the stables cools down all of the mares and stallions in the world), and the horses are used to being stalled. They are stalled across the aisle from a bunch of soon-to-deliver pregnant goats! Days like this make me wish I was back in California. No, wait. Atmospheric rivers are flooding the old place. Is anything worse than mud up to a horse’s hocks, slipping and sliding as the drenching rain pours down? Well, maybe. This Arctic blast is no fun at all.

Here’s the video. Enjoy! Don’t you agree that there is nothing more beautiful than horses running and romping in a field full of sunshine?!

Job 39:19-22 “Do you give the horse its strength or clothe its neck with a flowing mane? Do you make it leap like a locust, striking terror with its proud snorting? It paws fiercely, rejoicing in its strength, and charges into the fray. It laughs at fear, afraid of nothing; it does not shy away from the sword.”