Random Ramblings and Pictures

Horses first!

Then a few of some bunnies:

Some fall Foliage:

Bunny Show!!!

Saturday morning Aunt Lisa and I went to the River City and Capital City's RBA rabbit shows.  It was a small show but boy was it fun!!

Not a big building either!

There's Xena, Juliet and Miss Robinson with the tort babies that were for sale on the end.

Aunt Lisa standing at the River City table while judging New Zealands- the gentlemen next to Lisa raised New Zealands as well. He took Best of Breed with a white buck(or was it a doe?) in both shows. 

There's Miss Robinson with her Best opposite Sex of Variety win, waiting for Best of Breed choices.

Aunt Lisa cuddling with the Nethie I had, unsure still if I was going to sell her.  She's thinking about keeping the little girl for herself as a pet. 

Bunny pictures and New saddle!

I had a bunch of the bunnies out in shifts and small groups in the X-pens on Wednesday.  First up was Oriel so I can start to judge temperment on her. 

She's a smart bunny, she understands No quite well.  She was testing her boundaries for a little while to see what she could get away with.  She's a very good doe.

I had Oriel outside by herself I didn't want to push her with someone else yet.  After she went back inside, I had Connie, Natalie, Marcie their mother Keisha, Kylie and her daughter all out there.  I know I have more pictures than this but I only selected a few to post:

Miss Connie:

Keisha with Kylie behind her:

Kylie's little girl that doesn't have a name yet:

Miss Marcie:

Miss Natalie:

Today my saddle for Heidi came in.  It's a Wintec Wide with the 3XL gullet in it- I also have the 1XL and 2 XL gullet bars if she ever gets narrow enough to use them. 

And we rode around a little bit to see what I thought of the saddle- LOVE it!!

I can even re-set my stirrups the saddle balances enough on what withers she has to let me do it:

~Despite the girth being too loose cause I forgotten to tighten before mounting

The video isn't the greatest, but shows we still have plenty or work to do to get her going where she needs to be going.  Also still need to work on getting the stirrups exactly where I need them.

This saddle makes it much easier to hug her. 

New Saddle, New bits is a big success, now to get the extra money to have the Amish guys put a little time on her(and finish the payments on her)  I guess I will have to bit the bullet and do the OT. 

continuation of yesterday's update

Okay so I forgot to add Phoenix's feeties- had to take 'em this morning!

Above are his fronts, they're hugely impressive compared to what they were years ago.  They're barefoot for now unless Phoenix starts to limp again- then he'll wear front shoes year 'round.

His backs, he just looks sooo good.  Yes it rained yesterday night and into today.

Went today to clean up the fence and repair for occupancy tomorrow.  Prior to working on it:

Hmm I might know who was cutting the tree, he kinda forgot his bar and chain in the tree- I assume it got stuck!

All cleaned up and repaired!!!

Long time . . .

Well I know it's been a seriously long time, I haven't bothered, been more entertained with other things. Kylie was here for several days, and we were all out riding- and yes, we even had portable photographer Dad.  Those pictures are all on Facebook.  Wayy to many to upload to photobucket or even Blogger. 

Our Group Ride

Anyway, then over Labor day weekend Jess with Ayden came down from Ohio; Allen and Rachel came down from NY. 

Ayden LOVES giving kisses. 

Bree's babies are getting bigger they are 4 weeks 1 day as of today.  Here's the two little girls that are going to grow out here with me

The second one looks like Zelda, so it'll be Zelda2. 

Now as a quick catch up.  The horses moved back to my feild right after Labor day because a storm took a tree down and bashed the fence.  Which I'll be working on tomorrow.

So today Micheal came and trimmed feet, we removed Phoenix's shoes and we'll see how it goes with him being barefoot again.  If worse comes to worse, Micheal will come back and we'll keep front shoes on him. 

We found what Micheal and I both think is a wart on Heidi's hind hoof.  You can see it above, but here's a close up below.

Anyway, I'll try to do better

The forgotten post

I can't believe I forgot to post these on Thursday . . .

Thursday was Ben and Jerry's moving up day.  They progressed from being my little baby bulls to being little steers and learning to be in a real pasture with other livestock! 

They went through, got their shots, castration and horns done and we dropped them in the feild with Hildy and the sheeps for a couple days before they were moved in with the weithers, Dwayne the ram(was it Dwayne?) and Speedy. 

They were a little shocked at this sight:

But after we let the boys loose, we loaded Hildy up and brought her in for her horns and shots.  Hildy was none too impressed with this idea.

But once the de-horning heals up, she'll have a gorgeous smooth head!  She'll be mucho prettier without them horns. 

The horses were happy to get their barn back

Which they promptly lost the next morning because Bahloo thought it would be fun to start rough-housing inside and kicking the wall(or horse) and I was in feeding the rabbits.  So I locked them back out of the barn for a few more days.  It won't kill them, just makes them upset.  I can't have them kicking through the wall into the rabbits.  But they had the barn for one day.  Once I re-fix a few things I'll open it back up again, but until then they can stand under the trees for their shade-cooler that way anyway. 

Baby bunnies

Here's Trina's babies, first picture is from day 1, the second picture is at 3 days old.  She's still got all 8 so Rosie and Trina are going to have them a nice broken red boyfriend as soon as I can find one.

I *might* just be excited about having red colored babies again!!

And Today, when Dad and I went over to pick up the trailer to bring the little boys over, Megan came and brought Josie home with her.  She's going to be Megan's project and her mom Sheri's walking partner.  She's going to train her to drive eventually and has a friend with a Gray- silver dapple that they're going to eventually train to team drive and solo drive.  I can only picture a gray-silver dapple with a chocolate silver dapple- ohh so purdy!!    She also wants to break her to give pony rides to small kids. 

And the pen she's got set aside for Josie- it's mostly weeds and bare ground.  Megan had a few things to move that her brother decided to put in the pen out of view(and out of mind).