We’ve finally settled in at the ranch. They didn’t have a traditional RV hookup here so Joe manufactured what they didn’t have. He took a 55 gallon drum and made a septic system – it actually tied into an old existing one. I love my husband!
He also made a “front yard” for Jadyn.
Not only do they have mustangs here at the ranch, but they have some at two different locations on land people are letting them use.
Every day these horses are brought food. In the pictures below the horses are trying to get the hay right off the truck. You can see the brand on the neck of one of them.
Joe and Jadyn are saying Hi to Tatonka and the horses in the next picture are following the truck to where the feed is put out for them.
At the other piece of land they have “sanctuary horses” which are horses that can never be ridden or used for anything. They have been abused so badly both physically and mentally that they cannot recover from it. So these horses are in the “sanctuary” to live out their lives peacefully.
Below Diane (founder of Wild Horse Rescue) is giving hay to these sanctuary horses AND to the pet cows they share the pasture with. Jadyn of course had to pet one of the HUGE cows and then she posed pretty for a picture. :)
It’s been pretty nice here because we get to meet all kinds of different people that come to volunteer. The lady in the picture with Romeo is a farrier from Quebec. Diane, Romeo’s owner, is showing the farrier that he lets people pick up his feet.
Romeo is such a gorgeous stallion! Here he’s blowing off some energy and also saying Hi to one of the baby mustangs.
Here are the babies playing around.
Jadyn gets to help do things around here too. Below she’s helping one of the volunteers groom Little Thunder.
She also gets to help with McBob the donkey.
She also likes to sweep. Here she’s helping get ready for a Parelli Clinic put on for the volunteers.
And this is Sandy Vann the Parelli instructor and you might also recognize her from my posts from last year (around May). We stayed at her ranch for a little bit and helped out. I guess you could say that’s where we got our start on the ranch circuit. Her website is http://www.aceofheartsranch.com .
One of the cool things about being on the space coast is seeing launches. The picture below is the launch from February 24th. It was a pretty cool picture with the horse’s head in it too. :)
And these pictures were of a rocket launch. The way the sunset was hitting the clouds made them look really neat.
Here’s a picture of my handsome cowboy. :) And of him playing guitar with a friend.
And I am happy to say we finally made it to the beach – our favorite – Playalinda. We didn’t actually swim in the water since it was so cold. But we let our legs get wet. Ok. So a few times we weren’t paying attention and the waves would get us more wet than we wanted. It was still fun because after a while we couldn’t feel the cold. :o) We also flew a kite and played frisbee.
Yikes this is cold!
Jadyn running in the surf flying her kite.
My two girls gettin’ some sun (and Joe trying to figure out if his shelter is going to hold in the strong wind – it did.)
Joe and Jadyn hanging out in the shelter – in the background is the kite – he has it pegged to the ground.
We have a mustang awareness event next week with a Native American theme. We’ll be painting Romeo to look like a war pony. I’ll post more about it next week.
