Horse trailer trade

This is my old trailer, a 1992 modle, 4 horse with full dressing room.

 This is the trailer we traded for, a 2000 trails west, 2 horse slant with a dressing room

 It is pretty cool, I prefer the white but wont show the moss so bad, LOL.

 She has some rust spots that need touching up, and tweeking to get it how I want it, but that will be a fun project.

I am happy, the 4 horse was way to much for just me, I only have two rideable horses now. The gal I traded with between her and her sister they have 9 horses, so they should get good use out of it.

Extreme trail NW Nationals, Eugene, OR.

I went to Eugene, Or. Sunday with my favorite ladies. Carol and Judy. Carol drove her fancy new Subaru, with an in dash GPS.

 When you first walk in Mark Bolender has his booth. He competes, trains horses for, builds extreme trail courses all over the world! US, Germany, he said he is going to Australia soon and much more in the works! Him and his wife are very nice people too. Check out his website Unique Horsemanship, Mark Bolender

 The courses are just amazing! Here is Mark on Checkers, he was going when we first got there.

 He rides Checkers and his half brother bridleless in many disciplines, extreme trail, cutting, reining, etc.

 There were a lot of gorgeous mules!!!

 There is a large Mt. mural on the wall in the background. There are all natural obstacles.

 I took a pic of one of the like 5 or 6 different patterns through the obstacles, it all depended on which classes you were taking, experience and age.  That is a lot to remember!!!

 Mark on Checkers waiting to go up to the waterfall crossing.

 There was a guy riding a huge Draft horse.

 There were at least three buttermilk buckskins that look really similar to my Moms gelding Sonny. (these pics are for you Mom).

 There were a couple of Halflingers.

 The full arena from the end.

 Checkers is an amazing horse to watch, it helps that he is really cute too! LOL His expressions and intelligence are really fun to watch.

 He sidepassed to the left, between all these poles, bridleless.....

 A few steps forward and sidepass the rest of the way.

 See the waterfall Mt. in the back corner.

 There are ditches and holes filled with water. There is a giant pond beside this rider.

A Bridge.

 Carefully picking the way through the rocks.

 Another Mule. This is the balance beam obstacle, it is 18" wide, beveled to 16", Mark told us. A lot of the animals walked on it, a lot didnt. This Mule did awesome.

 Lunch break. We went to the restaurant and had lunch and they have a live feed of  what is going on in the arena, pretty cool.

 I had chick strips and fries.

Part 2 to come!!!

Big Buck!!

Yesterday we had these two come trough the pasture.

 This morning I filled the Hummingbird feeder and spotted this guy. Daddy is visiting now!

 He is a nice 3x3, no eyegaurds.

 He was eating apples.

 When I went out to feed the mares, he was still there.

 His neck is swollen, he is in rut.

 He is a pretty boy, we guess that he is about 2 years old.

He was peeking at me when I walked back to the house.

 He is a nice big bodied deer. Would have been a nice one in the freezer! Deer season is closed now.

 This is how close he is to the house. Just to the right of that yellow bottle.

 See him?  Whether you harvest them or not its nice to see them.

The girls are getting beet pulp now that it is cold out. Emma loves her beet pulp! LOL She was raised on it from the time she was foaled.

 Easy was having a problem with watery stool, formed balls, but a lot of water. Messy, I was having to hose her off every day, yeck. I started her on Fastrack, probiotic, an there was no change. I decided to start them on the beet pulp, soaked of course, again and her loose stool cleared up almost immediately!! I was so glad! Its getting to cold to keep having to wash her off. She is looking pretty good, old lady, she will be 27, in March.

 And the other fat old mare. One thing about Mickey is she has always been an easy keeper, she loves her beet pulp too! I like to feed it when its cold to give them more moisture in the gut, so I can hopefully prevent cold weather colic. They tend to not drink as much when its cold.

 And the beet pulp. I soak 8 cups in about 20 cups of warm water. The cup in there is a 24oz sour cream container, Easy gets 4 of those, the other two get two each.

Do you know what happens when the Labrador gets into dry beet pulp pellets. Yeah....
When Hubby got home from work at 7 am day before yesterday, Dublin had pooped in two spots, Hubby said "it looks like coffee grounds!" I said oh no!! The little shit has been eating the beet pulp!!! (sigh) Needless to say I now have a lid on the bucket!!!!!  Always put a lid on the bucket!!! Max would have been in it too, but he is to short to reach in the bucket!!! LOL
I spent two hours shampooing the living room carpet that morning!!

Silver and a trade!!!

Hubby and I went the the Portland, Antiques and collectibles show last Sat. We had fun, lots of stuff to look at. we didnt find anything that we couldnt live without. A lot of stuff that we had, but isnt worth much LOL.  These two pics are the only ones I took, and of course they are a horse stuff!! LOL This absolutely gorgeous silver parade saddle, caught my eye. The Indian head detail! Wow, it is supposed to be one of the rarer silver saddles out there!

 I snuck the pictures, with my Iphone, didnt know it the owner would want me taking pics of it. These old saddles are so beautiful, especially in person. When I was a kid growing up the neighbor lady had her husbands old silver parade saddle in her basement. We used to ask her to go down and see it! She passed away, I never knew what happened to that saddle. Her husbands name is Jim Croswell and he rode an Appaloosa stud named Polar Star in the '60's. She had a display case full of his ribbons and trophies. Wonderful daydream memories for a little girl. (Maybe thats where I got my love of Appaloosas?
The tappaderos on the saddle were solid silver with the Indian head on them too. You could tell this is very old when you looked close at it. You can see a head on the saddle horn too.

Its one of those things "If you have to ask, you cant afford it" LOL LOL


We are making a trade!!!!!! I am sooooo excited!  I currently have a 1992 Circle J, 4 horse slant load trailer with a full tack room in front. Well Meghan was talking to a gal at work, and her sister has been trying to find someone to trade her trailer with for over a year. I still cant believe it!!! Hers is a 2000 Thuro-Bilt, 2 horse slant load, with the full dressing room! We are going to do a straight across trade!!!! Wooo Hoooo!!
I do not need a 4 horse trailer anymore! I have been going through trailers on the internet and its really hard to find anyone that wants to trade to one that big! I left the ad she had posted in the garage, I went out to find it and no piece of paper anywhere, hmmmm. If I find it I will post the picture!!! (Hubby is sleeping, working graveyard shift, so I will ask him when he gets up!!!!
I cant wait to put my fat butt Appy into our new trailer and go ride!!! ( it is an extra wide and tall, with oversize axles, etc.) I am so happy, we are going to go do the paperwork on Saturday!!!
The only thing wrong with mine is it needs new tires, and the floor in the back needs to be replaced. She said they have rebuilt a few so that didnt bother them at all! It has a little surface rust but no cancer at all!!!
Hers has some surface rust and scratches on the back door, and a few other little things.
I am happy!!!!

Things in strange places....

We went for a drive on Tuesday, we were way out 20 miles from nowhere, and what is parked beside the road!!

Weird huh! LOL

Archives, well, some found old photographs!!!!

Some of my blogger friends have been posting archived pictures. Well I can say these are not archived! But newly found!! LOL LOL

I found some pictures of Meghan and her favorite pony! Sugar. We got Sugar for her when she was about 6 years old. Sugar was 4. I know that is young with young and that doesnt always work. In this case it did work. Sugar did come with lots of baggage. Her last owner, well the Dad, had beat on her and forced her to do what he wanted, she was saddle broke, although she had a bucking problem for awhile. They put my nephew on her with spurs to get her to quit. She was a very sweet pony. She was just big enough I could rider her bareback. She was about 12H, and that beautiful Silver Dapple color. I schooled her on the ground a lot, found out she was terrified of the lunge whip. She would run and run and you would have to reel her in until you could get a hold of her. She also hated baths! LOL But that white mane and tail were absolutely gorgeous after they were whitened and cleaned.

We worked through all that. Meghan rode her for three years at the 4-H fair, as a junior. She got blue ribbons on her. She rode Western  Eq., Bareback Eq., Hunt Eq., trail, Showmanship, and they did gaming. That little pony would do it all! LOL she did have some Shetland attitude at times, and Meghan rode her with a little pair of nub spurs, but that was all she needed. ( she only bucked Meg off one time! LOL and Meg fell off one time waiting in line after being judged for bareback class, she was wiping the dirt off of her butt LOL and Sugar moved and she slid off! LOL In front of the whole grandstands full of people! LOL LOL)

She had the cutest little fuzzy butt!!! LOL She was not perfect conformation, but she was OK.
I ended up selling her, after Meg outgrew her. Sugar was only 7 when we sold her, she had a lot of kids to raise!!! Sadly I sold her to someone who was a regular at the feed store I worked at. I thought they were knowledgeable, well not so much. They cowboyed her and she fell back to the fear response she had before we got her, scraped their son off on a fencepost (sigh). Poor baby. What can you do after the fact. I sure wish I knew where she was now. The people I sold her to had her less than a year, and didnt tell me they were selling her again. I hope she went to someone kind and has had a good life. She would be 16 now. Little Sugar Booger, she was a fun pony!

That little saddle in the background, I found it at a garage sale for $2, yes $2!!! LOL The tree was not broken and it needed a little TLC, stirrup fixed and such. LOL my sister in law has it now as decor in her house!