I've had a few updates from Mac's new owner. His girl loves him and has done some mounted games on him. The mom decided to try out his driving skills the other week with her cart and this week hooked him up to her wagon.


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Saturday was day two of the Roots N' Boots Rodeo. The ADHMA was invited this year to give a show/demonstration/expo thing on day two of the three day event. It flew by the seat of our collective pants and not due to weather (unlike the first time)I have come to the conclusion that I need to just stop waiting around for anyone to contact me about ( Read more... )

Saturday dawned early and muddy. I fed the herd and we made preparations. The cart was already loaded, but I had volunteered our poles and cones for the obstacle class. We loaded Charm-N and headed over ( Read more... )

We got more rain Friday afternoon. We got even more rain Friday evening ( Read more... )

It rained yesterday as we came home from the draft horse show meeting. It's raining again this afternoon and it looks like we're getting quite a bit more than yesterday. Our area just got a light sprinkling yesterday, other areas got more. Today it is compensating for that. I think it's been raining for close to an hour ( Read more... )

In some things it was bigger than last year, in others it was much smaller. Unfortunately one of our in-state big hitches had to sell off most of their hitch due to health and money issues so the hitch classes were smaller. We had a good amount of "local" people that showed up (i.e. club members and those in-state) and there was a good showing of ( Read more... )

I now have and iPad. I'm unsure of how that makes me feel and I have this sinking feeling that it might turn out to be a wonderful time-waster rather than an effective time manager. Mom decided to get herself a new one and She offered her old one to me (truth be told I don't think I'd actually pay money for one). I initially declined, but Chris ( Read more... )

The weather looks like it might cool down again next week. I think I can finally call people and start getting a fall/winter/not-summer work schedule going and hopefully lift the income again. This summer has actually been quite good, actually and I'm hoping it will lead into a proportionately good in-season (as in AZ Summer is really the off- ( Read more... )