Departing Horses & Future Farm Plans

 We made some tough decisions lately, choosing to sell a couple of our horses to get a younger more suitable trail horse capable of long rides.  One of our bucket list goals is to participate in the Chief Joseph's Trail ride, and for that we need trail horses that can do a week of near 20 mile days.  Unfortunately, Jesse has gotten past her prime and with a touch of arthritis rides like that would be too punishing.  Maze is an athletic horse with excellent endurance, but she moves out faster than the slower trail horse we'd prefer.  Both amazing horses, but they'd just become pasture ornaments if not going on rides with us. This move gives them both what they need, and we can't be happier with their new homes.

Jesse 

Maze

Now we can focus on our future horses, working with Apollo and getting him under saddle, and getting a new trail horse to handle all of our summer adventures and hopefully an epic adventure on the Chief Joseph's trail ride.

We have been daydreaming about all the improvements we want to make on the farm to allow us to work more with our horses in the winter and hot days.  Our biggest project/goal is to build a covered outdoor arena.  We've been looking at ClearSpan canvas covered pre-fabricated buildings and have seen a few in use in our area.  We've been working towards getting serious about building one, along with an outdoor arena area with good footing.  But we also need new fencing, lots of rock and sand, and all sorts of other things; so a little money is the only thing standing in our way.  

We'll keep pushing forward, dreaming, and working towards those goals!