Promise Acre: Our Journey

[promiseacres]

So last week we got a great deal on 5 more stacks of cages, I moved all my tack back to the house and now we have 50ish holes. I have some I can divide or not depending on if I want a larger cage or smaller. I have room for 3 more stacks if we remove the chicken nest boxes. Haven't decided if we will or not.

Also last week Jocelyn and I did get Richie and Rayne over to the indoor arena for a lovely ride. Such awesome ponies they are.


And our last VL doe to kindle this year (she's only 8 months old) she had 6! Has been prepping for over 2 weeks, such a sweet doe, her name is Whitey. They are the "count down" litter being born 4-3-21
I guess I should revive my bunny thread. Just is easier to have one at this time.

And the Easter eggs we made today.

 

[Ridgetop]

Keep just one thread please! So hard to find everyone's different threads. I have a hard enough time finding anything on the site. LOL

Too old for it I guess! LOL

 

[Baymule]

Happy Easter today. Enjoy your children and the special moments like this.

 

[Bruce]

Also last week Jocelyn and I did get Richie and Rayne over to the indoor arena for a lovely ride.

Doesn't she look HAPPY in that third picture!

 

[promiseacres]

Some photos from Easter. We took a couple of bunnies to church for photos.
And we got out on the trails!! it was almost too warm. But oh well. Horses behaved and all 3 kids wanted to go! Worked a bit on stopping and standing, Mr Richie isn't too into that. He does great in the arena but not on the trails. He's not terrible but I'd really love if he was better. Rode 3.8miles, in about 2 hours, with one short break. My friend has an "app"

 

[Baymule]

What a great weekend. Those are some nice trails for riding. Very pretty eggs, what a good idea, taking bunnies to church for pictures. I bet people had fun with that.

 

[Ridgetop]

Wonderful pictures! Great that you got out on the trails with all the kids. DH loved riding with all the kids mounted on their own ponies. He would have the youngest up with him and he loved riding along with everyone seeing the entire family out on our horses. Some of our happiest memories.

One time we stayed out too long and the sun went down before we got home. We were stranded on some steep trails that led through low trees with branches across the trail. The moon was not up for another couple of hours and it was pitch black. The kids were getting frightened not being able to see where we were going, but we told them to lean forward over their ponies' necks, hold on tight and give the horses their heads. The horses would take us home. I went first with my arm in the air to feel for branches so I could call out to warn the riders behind. DH brought up the rear so no one could get left behind. Our horses had ridden those trails for years and brought us safely down the hills through the trees and onto the road. It was still pitch black when we hit the road since there are no street lights, so DH and I put the kids between us nose to tail since our horses were pintos and we hoped the white would show up. We only had a short distance on the street until we hit the road to our house and were off the main road. An adventure the kids still remember!

Those trail rides with all the kids will be magical memories.

 

[promiseacres]

Bunnies

 

[promiseacres]

Went to put these photos on my fb renovations page... guess what FB is doing away with private pages. Can't post anything just to the group. They want me to make it a business page. That is not the point of my page. It's so people can follow our renovations but in a PRIVATE setting. So have been working in the attic removing the old scuzzy insulation. If DH helps it sure goes more quickly. Doesn't help there's everything from bricks to old roof wood mixed in...also a few old books and rolls of wall paper... most fall apart when you touch them. If there was anything in the attic being stored they just covered it up.
Been able to work ponies fairly regularly. They were dewormed and hooves trimmed Friday. Lightning is definitely feeling better. I ordered him a training surcingle, we're going back to the basics and working on building his back muscles. I am still on the fence of what to do with him. His girthyness is improving after just 4 short sessions of tying a lead rope around his girth. I am on the chiropractors schedule for a recheck and the vet will be here for 4H vaccines May 4, I will have the vet give him a good exam then. Probably need his teeth checked again. But we'll go from there. I'm giving him some grace right now as his back WAS VERY BAD and that's the first he really tried to throw anyone. The signs were there... he was trying. After having someone not get that he won't be a 4H pony this year... and trying to low ball me on his price I don't really have him advertised. Friends know he is available but that I'm working with him. It's a tough call.

Ranger is doing well, the kids are having fun working him for 4H. He sleeps good after the meetings.

 

[Baymule]

I still have a FB page, but their censorship is getting out of control. I keep it because of groups I belong to, but if another good form of social media comes along, I’m outa FB. I joined MeWe, but there isn’t much there.

Bricks in the attic? Gheesh. The insulation looks like the blown in kind. Are y’all taking down the ceiling too? If so, I sure understand that you not only don’t want insulation raining down on your heads, along with getting klonked on the head by bricks and books.

Keep working with Lightning, he’ll come around. He had problems and you are working that out. Under your care, he’s liable to break out of the dumps he’s been and bloom into the fine pony you want him to be.