I talked to the nicest lady. She had called interested in Chief. She said she had finally come to the point where she could get another horse. Her last horse she adopted when it was born. She was only 16 years old, and a nearby farm had had this colt, but the mother died shortly after foaling. The farmer was going t pt the foal down as he had no way to feed it. She offered to take it and after convincing her parents the horse was hers. She would bike around to other nearby farms, milking their goats and then feeding the little guy. She had that horse for 34 years and it had just died last November. He had a great life thanks to her and now she is ready for another. She is a fascinating woman. She had been a carpenter for the last 25 years and is now retired. She also shoots professionally and has been asked to try out for the Olympic team. I really hope she decides to buy him. She wanted some new pictures, and though he is dirty, I took a couple. She really liked the pictures I posted. She says she is going to work on her husband and then get back to us.
We had another woman contact us about a mare she wants to trade plus some money for a well broke gelding. It is worth a look. You can see her here. She seems pretty nice. She doesn't ride the greatest yet, but she is still young and as a broodmare that wouldn't matter. She came out today to "test drive" all the geldings, and everything went pretty well. She really likes Luke. Her mare Annie will be coming here on Monday to spend a week with us so we can decide if we want to keep her as part of the deal. It would be nice to have another good broodmare.

Holy COW, has it been cold here! Below zero for many a night. Now it has warmed up a little, but we have lots of snow again. Last time we had a cold snap we had a little incident here at the house. I opened Mabel's door to the garage and before I knew it Bobble darted inside to get away from me!. She has been going into the garage and then into Mabel's heated room. I startled her and in she came. She has only once before gotten into the house by accident and is still wild. We got her into the sunroom and then back out the sunroom door. I was worried that she would never go out and hide under the couch or something, but it turned out to be no problem at all.

The big news this week is that it looks like we are going to be getting another dog. He is located in Illinois and we will go there Friday after we are done riding. The dogs name is Moses and I am so excited about this. I thought we had talked about him in an earlier update but I can't seem to find it. He is soo cute. Greyhound and Great Dane Mix. He is huge. We of course will need to make sure he is totally gentle with the dogs, cats, and other critters we have around here.

Thanks for watching.