Monthly Archives: March 2012
Buttercup in the Springtime
I have a cute story that a friend here (who is a teacher) told me. She said she was teaching school one day and one of her female students who is around the age of 8 came up to her and started telling her about her horse Buttercup. This little girl was telling the teacher how buttercup is a sweet horse but in the spring time she gets really frisky and likes to play and buck and act up. Then, … continued…
March – in like a lion, out like a lamb…
Too bad they forgot to tell the weather that, because March came in like a lamb and has been all lion. As you can see from the pictures, winter is still here and it’s coming down in big, wet, flakes. Hopefully spring is somewhere around the corner.
Breaking horses
Winter on the ranch is a somewhat slower time as there’s not a lot you can do when the ground is full of snow and ice. We generally feeds cows, do some basic maintenance on equipment and if we have time we work with some horses. We have a big enough barn that we can set up a make shift round corral in and it at least gets us inside and out of the elements. You can’t really ride any … continued…
