Thursday...

It was a beautiful day today. Everything looks so much better when the sun is out...

The Big Pasture's morning hay...

A meeting in Okay Corral. I moved Nike back out for a while to let her quarter crack in her hoof dry out. It opened up a bit with all of the mud and rain we had and some of the pens are still so wet. That is Nike in the middle with Avalon's head over Sadler...

Slider (the chestnut on the right) was moved back out into the Saloon. That is Baldwin sniffing him...

We finally weaned the latest batch of babies (left to right: Butterfly, Locksley, Brisa and Twister). As Sally says, "They went right through school and are now in college!". They are almost 9 months old now, and we normally wean at 6 months. But, at weaning time, some of the babies and their mom's had respiratory infections and we didn't want to wean them until everyone was healthy and feeling good. Today was the day. There was some calling going on...

But then it was play time! We also moved Wanderers Scrappy and Baja in with the babies to act as babysitters. Scrappy loves the babies and always hung out at their fence line. It's good for newly weaned babies to have older horses around to teach them how to act like a horses.

Baja grabbed her last quiet meal for a while before moving into The Bungalows with the babies. Here she is with Ethel the Mule...

The Breakfast Club: Inca, Donkey Otie, Fiesta, Mojo and Lyfting...

Jimmy Dean...

Sharil gives Taquito a hug...

Taquito and Tortilla are happily wandering full time now...

Elisa and Inspirada...

This happens every half hour. Charlie opens our tack room door and gets into the mints. Really, every half hour!

We also moved Ochocinco and Cairo into the large pen in the Bungalows. They have more room and it is a bit drier...

A Beautiful and Busy Weds

A clear day, lots to do...

Elisa and Baldwin...

Sally cleans a sore on Icey Litla.

While Curry takes a sun nap in Jeder's outdoor area...

Tortilla and Taquito hanging out near Little Vacation Village and the Saloon...

Me and Jeder in what is going to be our new jumping arena...

Pecos hanging out in the Big Pasture...

Mojo and Aztec by the Barn...

Part of the Breakfast Club, Left to right: Lyfting, Fiesta and The Sheriff...

We sent our old wandering pony Rugrat back into the Vet clinic for her chronic eye problem. After examining it this morning, the vets decided the eye should be removed. So she will spend a few days in the clinic. She has had eye issues since she was rescued but it just keeps getting worse in spite of treatment...

Fiesta and Ethel...

Big Pasture...

Elisa and Kenzo in our new jumping area...

A cold and cloudy day...

Today was cold and overcast, just one of those days...

I did pick up my new horse trailer. It's a three horse with living quarters. It's for me and Jedermann and our new future together... Tortilla and Taquito back in their corral for breakfast. We are leaving the gate open so they can get used to wandering but can still return to the safety of their own corral...

Fame over in the Brat pack...

Angel, the Skin Horse, in Okay Corral...

Jimmy Dean snuggling up in his straw...

While his roommate, Daisy, eats her hay...

Not a lot of photos today, more tomorrow!

Sunday Adventures and a Haircut

Another busy day, lots to do but no emergencies. That is a good day in rescue!

I decided today was a good day to body clip Jedermann. I am taking him down to my sister's in San Diego in a few weeks for lessons and training (actually a kind of "boot camp" to get myself going). Now he will be nice and clean and not get so hot with his heavy winter coat as we work together. He was a very good boy (as usual) and stood patiently while I clipped him...

Of course, since it is Shiloh, there is always some action going on just off camera. Here are Mojo and Charlie trying to eat my clipper cords, etc. Mojo stood right next to Jeder the entire time and chewed on his legs, turned over my bucket of blade wash, got covered in white hair and generally just got in the way...

But, the end result was worth it and later Jeder enjoyed some time rolling in the turn out to remove the itchy hair. My goal is for our first show to be in March, so we have a lot of work to do, but I am really looking forward to it...

I even carved Tony's initials on Jeder's hindquarters, so Tony will be along for the ride!

Here is a cute shot of Inca exiting this morning's Breakfast Club...

Okay Corral. The glare is from my cracked lens (as usual, I have wreaked another Flip camera)...

More Okay Corral. There is still mud everywhere but it's drying up...

Godspeed eating Breakfast...

Waco...

We let the new mini burros, Tortilla and Taquito out to wander. They had a great time and explored all over the rescue!

Here they watch Sally and the dogs walk by...

Sally and Sabine cleaned up Toluca's shoulder wound on City Center...

And we had to treat Sheriff the Mule for a choke. It cleared up just fine in a few hours and he was back to his wandering ways...

Aztec and Lindsey Loham check each other out...

Saturday and New Friends...

First off, I will be blogging about the Summit of the Horse in the next few days, but I just don't have the energy to do it today. It was a very draining experience but I want to share with everyone our impressions (we did post a lot about it on Facebook). It was not easy to sit through that Summit...

On to better things:

A cold but clear day today at Shiloh...

We had two new Arrivals, meet Tortilla and Taquito- two mini burros! They were donated by their very caring owners so that they could have a more stimulating life with other animals. They will be badly missed, but their previous owners will be able to come out and visit them whenever they like...

Daria gets to know Taquito...

They are darling!

They seemed happy with their new surroundings and spent lots of time just looking around. In a few days we will let them out to wander freely...

Tamale came over to meet them and welcome them to Shiloh's Burro herd...

Slider had some fun in the turn out...

I missed Donkey Otie when I was in Alaska so I gave him a big hug and kiss!

Sabine exercised Moses...

While Ed blew out the Barn aisle...

Our round pen is still a skating rink...

Lindsey Loham snored away in her cozy house...

Sabine and Willie Nelson...

We let the Icey pony, Lyfting, out loose to wander...

I caught Cowboy snoozing in the sun...

Wandering Mule, Moose, looking cute...

A good day!