Given the kind of situation going on, a divorce, and the willingness of the man to take the boy's horse to hold for some kind of hostage or to punish the mother through the son I'm not maintaining a high degree of hope for the best of outcomes.  Yet still, that is what I want.

 

Things should be coming to a head about now as I think the divorce hearing is due or done.  

Winter? Is it over for you yet?



Here in the Pacific Northwest temperate rain forest it's a bright sunny day.



You would even envy me, some of you, given your weather, until I reveal that it snowed yesterday and last night, and froze up solid here.



It's been a straight diet of cold rain here with intermittent snow, and more rain and cold. Mud everywhere unless it freezes into hard ridges, then back to mud.



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Well this is some story. Ugly. But the boy and his mom are calling for help.



http://www.bridleandbit.com/artman/publish/article_29612.shtml



Arizona

My best friend Potlicker was sold on 3/20 by my stepdad while we were away on vacation

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Mar 26, 2011, 15:56



Can you help us get our story out so we can find her and buy her back? He wont tell us where or who bought her. So… Continue

I get to feeling sorry for myself, though with the new little barn, having Altea, and Bonnie now, within sixty feet of the house, compared to having to drive with water and feed a mile and a half, drag everything up an icy snowy hillside for 50 yards, this is heaven by comparison.



You see, it's cold, and it's wet, and it's slushy, and I'm old...there, are you feeling sorry enough for me yet? LOL…

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Kate came in from doing a little mane detangling on Bonnie earlier today.

It's been snowing and getting deeper and when Kate decided to play more with Bonnie after tiring trying to get the tied together "dreds," in Bonnie's mane apart, she took Bonnie for a stroll.  No line or halter, just offered Bonnie a chance to follow, "let's go for a walk, Bonnie," and of course she did.

 

The paddock is a hazard zone with little pits here and there where big stumps were pulled…

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There's the never ending clean up of course. However, being an organic gardener all my life (from age six) I welcome the fertilizer that my horses provide.

And in nice weather I find it somewhat meditative stall and stable yard cleaning. Now with my own larger paddock both are out more of course, and I probably won't do much paddock cleaning but rather work out a system using my big riding tractor rotary mower to smash and scatter the droppings out there.

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