Sunday, March 16, 2008

The Weekend

Some sad news as Sanctuary Horse, Foggy, passed away sometime Friday night. Please take a moment to read his Shiloh story here.

As usual, another busy weekend.
Little Will had lots of visitors and he hammed it up for everyone. Will spent all day out in the run, always on the move. Poor Inspirada is exhausted from trying to keep up with him. But, she is enjoying all the extra carrots!

Dave and Sharil (below) had a private Parelli lesson with Marc Rea. They have been working hard and are both doing wonderfully! Borrego and Rookie seem to be really enjoying it.


Tomahawk was adopted to a great home and left Saturday afternoon. Gotham's adoption to Beth was finalized and Baby Fortune has an adoption pending to Yvonne. Angus left for his new home in Pahrump on Sunday morning.

It is wonderful how everyone pitches in to help out with the daily chores. There is always so much to do! Volunteers groomed horses, helped turn them out, and filled the endless water buckets. Sometimes, even the horses help out! Below, Slidell holds Lodi as Geoff, the Farrier, trims Lodi's hooves.



Sabine gave lots of riding lessons. Below, Seven gets tacked up.

The Wanderers enjoyed the activity and the warm sun (when the wind would die down).


2 comments:

Mikey said...

That is so cute!! Love that picture of the horse holding the other horse. I have a couple that like to do that too.
Our "old man" will take a lead rope and twirl it. I always duck and cover for when he lets go. It's a wonder he doesn't brain himself..

Love that post!

KellyByrd said...

So sorry about sweet Foggy. We met him just recently, but know that he did love his carrots! Glad his last two years of his life here were filled with love and care, and all the food he could eat! Saw the footage on Salsa and Dave- so....... it's all Dave's fault! Salsa wants us all to learn to wrestle like that! At least when Dave's playing with Salsa, the poor pig gets the day off! Glad to see NASDAQ is the "biggest" kid in his new block. Although, I don't think he seems to understand that- such a gentleman. He's looking so handsome! The mini ponies came up for their carrots, but NAS stayed in the back. One of these days he's going to realize he's one of the bigger kids! Hopefully he'll still be a gentleman- I'm sure he will be. Lastly, Baby Will is EVEN CUTER in person! Inspirada should teach parenting classes- she's amazing! Will is so curious and such an active little one. At the rate they were going yesterday, Inspirada should lose her baby weight in about three days... Ok, truly lastly- Godspeed is really coming along. What a gentle giant- he's holding his head higher, and has complete understanding of what the wheelbarrow carries...