Last day of June already!

Wow, it's the last day of June already. This month has flown by and Friday is th 4th of July!

My birthday was June 23rd and Don gave me a brand new Circle Y saddle and matching breast collar and headstall. Wow, what a shock! Gorgeous saddle but way too expensive!

It was a nice birthday weekend. Two of our horses went to the same home. A father and his teenage daughter took home one of our Thoroughbred mares named Boots and his daughter bought our Arab mare named Abby. We wish them the best and many many years of happy trails together!!

So now we are down to just three horses and it sure makes feeding easier not only time wise but on the old wallet too!!

I'm still hoping to find a good home for our Thoroughbred Spook N Scoot. We are going to keep Ebony (Tropic Pass). I've been doing some research on her and discovered she has Alydar in her heritage along with some other fine Thoroughbreds. So our plans for now are to keep her and breed her early next year with another fine Thoroughbred stallion.

Saturday Don spent an hour working with her trying to get her to accept a fly mask. Horses can sure be stubborn but his tenacity paid off and she finally allowed him to put it on and she also let him use some fly spray on her. I put both the mask and spray on her yesterday morning but this morning she wanted no part of it! She's having one of her "mare" moments I guess. After an hour, I just got frustrated and hung the dang mask on her corral. She's probably mauling it right now!

My garden is coming along ok. I have just as much grass in it as I do vegetables. But I've been cutting the grass with clippers and giving it to the horses which they love since they are standing in sand all the time. It must be the pits to be a horse in Arizona where there is no such thing as grass like there is in other parts of the country.