Christmas Play Given by Headwaters Baptist Church

The littlest Shepherd is Ruth and Joseph is Daniel. These are the grandchildren. Suzanne is playing the piano & Michael is narrating and playing the trombone.

Snow Day! This Is What the Horses Do When Lessons get Cancelled Due to the Bad Roads!

Charlie & Dallas Enjoy the Snow!


Dallas Goes Trotting Elegantly


Reo Checks Out the New Snow



Andee Looks at the Snow



Now Andee Trots Out.


Andee Goes the Rest of the Way with a Little Encouragement

I thank the Lord for my many blessings

During this Thanksgiving season. I give thanks to the Lord for the many blessings that I hold so dear.

My parents



and family both far and near.






I am thankful for my friends close by who love to play.


Also my church friends with whom I pray,



I thank the Lord for my friends far away that I will see again someday.




I am thankful for my home so near.
The place where my animal friends dwell.
My oldest animal friend Valentine. Whom I love well.


My friends & pets of years past.

My horses who used to go fast!
Long Legs who still loves the children.
Valentine who looked like a million and still does today!
Autumn who loves to jump all day!


Tejas my new friend.


P.J. who I can't believe is so old!

Duchess who always smiled!


Benjie & Brownie who were so mild.

Buscie who had a heart so great!



Charlie, Sonny & Chase my boys old and new!


Now my only wish is that I would develop a talent for poetry
because this attempt went woefully.

Welcome Dallas

Julie got a new horse named Dallas. Congratulations Julie & welcome Dallas.




This is Baby Bear. He was found the the back of the cab of our truck when he was about 1 week old. We tried to take care of him & then Elaine offered to keep him until he could eat solid food. So after he was old enough to eat solid food she brought him back to us. His name is Little Bear because we used to have a cat named bear who was the same color.

Sonny Likes Being a Trail Horse!!!!

This is the original. Which do you like best? Sonny and I were just back from a trail ride.

This picture caught us totally unaware. I had no idea that anyone was taking a picture. It was taken by Chelsea Lucas. I am not normally a fan of black & white, but this one is interesting with the shadows and the tallllll horse. HMMMM I wonder what the color version looked like. Nice job on the composition on that photo.

Last day of October

Ella & Alissa

Abby & Ginger
Bobby in his new sheet.
Sherry & Reo


Abby & Autumn

Our Barn Party Costume Parade!

This year we decided to have a barn party costume parade! This was the one time everyone could dress up even though it wasn't a horse show. Lots of the students did not get to go in any horse shows this year. So dressing up for the pure fun of it seemed like a a great idea!! (At least until I got started trying to get the horse outfits on the horses! Then I wasn't so sure!)

First in line in the parade were Peek A Boo and Flyer. Peek A Boo was dressed as the young horse and Flyer was dressed as her "Granny". Arlene rode Peek A Boo and Lisa led Granny. Many thanks to Lisa for helping with Granny. Anyone who knows Peek and Flyer know that were Peek A Boo goes Granny is almost always close by. Granny even stayed at the vet hospital last year when Boo was getting surgery. Granny was getting ready to take Boo on a field trip to South America, Boo even had her bag packed. We played a game later where the participants had to guess what Boo had packed for her trap.



Boo has made Granny's hair grey! It is a chore sometimes keeping up with this young horse!

Here is Kathleen the only one of the three Musketeers that could make it to the party. She is riding "Blue Sky", whose old registered name was "Bold Intimidator" that name seems appropriate when he is dressed like this!


Here is the new kid, Andee Ixe Storm. She just moved back from Pittsburgh and judging from her chef outfit she is planning to cook her way into popularity with the other horses. Marina is her proud owner!


This is Julie's first opportunity to dress up her horse, Kolt (Cypress Moonbar). I guess that since she wanted a horse for Christmas last year but had to wait until New Year's day to get him she decided to go with a "Father Christmas" theme.

Here is Kathleen ready to conquer the party.




Julie and Kolt
Here is cowgirl Ashley with her cow pony Luke!
Here is our Hippy Friend Alyssa riding Long Legs. Peace Out!



That is a view of the parade. A total of 13 horses participated! What beautiful fall colors.
Here is Buddy Berry riding his "cow" Reo. Their theme was a cowboy riding a cow.
Here is Abby riding Autumn. Autumn is a hula dancer with her Island rider Abby. That straw hat was real challenge to keep in place!
Abby and Cincinatti are a vision of spider webs and spiders. I was shocked that someone who is as afraid of spiders as Abby is would chose this for her costume. However Cinnci thought the web was itchy!

Here is Chelsea with Cameo. They are dressed in an Arabian horse native costume. Cameo is an Arabian and Chelsea wanted to show her off in her traditional garb! Chelsea and Sherry made the tassles by hand.

Krystal also did an Arabian native outfit with Buddy who is also an Arabian. I think this pair is very nice.


Brittany makes a nice statement with her outfit. She is riding Sundance Bob.
What's cooking Andee? I was getting really hungry by this point.
Here is Sweet Valentine. She had her 35th birthday last month. So we sang her happy birthday and I fed her carrots. She was purchased for me originally so I insisted on presenting her carrots. I sure look different now than I did when I was 9 years old and saw her for the first time!


Afterward we played what is in Peek A Boo's purse and ate lots of good food at a Potluck Dinner! I hope we have even more participants at the next barn party.