Marking Milestones

It was the day after Thanksgiving 2006 when my adventures with horses officially began.

That's the day I brought Poco home.

I had purchased him a month earlier,

but we had fencing to do

before we could bring him here.

I was so lucky to also meet

my wonderful friends and mentors

from Iron Ridge Sport Horses.

I'm thankful for them every day.

Jaz joined us in early January of 2007.

Poco was so happy to have a friend.

I was delighted to have a horse I could actually ride.

Although I was already completely smitten and

trying desperately to talk myself out of it in June 2010,

I eventually bowed to the inevitable and

Daltrey came home in October,

when he was 8 months old.

Look how little he was!

(Look how green it was back there!)

 In February of 2011, I made the decision to sell Poco.

It worked out better than I could have hoped,

since his new home is none other than Iron Ridge,

where he gets the snot worked out of him.

Jaz loves being my main man.

It makes my heart sing when he whinnies at my arrival.

I regret every second I took him for granted.

Daltrey,

(shown here with Joker's White Russian aka 'Red'),

is growing like crazy, becoming a fine young man.
I'm very proud of him.

It may have taken 49 years for me to get my pony,

but it's never too late.

"Don’t be afraid of the space

between your dreams and reality. 

If you can dream it, you can make it so."

— Belva Davis