another foal photo of Taffy

Here is an old photo of Taffy and her dam I found. This was in Colorado where she was born.

Horse Love

Mystic and Hag share a moment in the barn

If you all could see what I see

The ice shimmering in the sunlight with all the colors of the rainbow.

Diamond Dust in a snow paradise

It was breath-taking.

Mystic and Taffy

Taffy on a snow day

This is how she is, right here. She is the most friendly yet respectful girl. She is not offered for sale at this time.

SNOW!

Mystic heads for the trailer. I have decided to offer Mystic for sale or trade. I will post photos of her training as it progresses. Check back as I am in no hurry to sell her but would like to replace her with something that better fits into my breeding program.

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Taffy today

Here is my girl. People ask me about her color all the time. most common question, "Is she a creamelo?" I usually answer no and go on to explain a little about color genetics. Taffy has a BAY dam. Her sire is Diamond Dust's full brother, a palomino. This photo shows her darking places well. She was born pure silver white with black eyes and nose. Then she started to look like she had been wandering around in a sooty area, she had a "gray undercarrage". That was when we realized she has a white sock. She has a couple of small dark spots here and there on her sides too.

Home at Last

This is River home with Mystic.

Mystic

This photo of Arrow's Mystic Gold was taken yesterday. She looks better and better to me all the time. We rode her dam for the first time recently. We look forward to riding her out at the field trial park soon. I look forward to riding this girl myself in a few years.

Lilly

This is Lilly, one of my new poms. She is the most shy and spends a lot of her time behind the couch. She is fat, Jilly is fat too but Lilly is the worst. They get more exercise now I think.

BlackRiver Armed With Ivory update

This is the best photo I have been sent of him. He doesn't look like a buckskin any longer does he? We will going to pick him up soon. He is in KY.

Pomeranians

I have two new Pomenanians. Lilly and Jilly. Since I don't have a camera yet I am posting a photo of Peach. She was my first Pom and the best so far. These new dogs are supposed to be bred to a tea cup poodle. I will post photos as soon as I can. This photo of Peaches was taken at the Orla Mill.

Another photo of Khitian

This is the same mare along with my friend Jamie and her adult mini horse Romeo. This photo was taken quite a bit later than the previous photo.

Khitian

This is Khitian (kitten). She was my first clyde foal. She produced a few foals for me. The house in the back ground is the house I live in now. It is much more grown up with weeds as well as things like apples, pears, and Jerusulen artichokes, in fact along with peppers and tomatoes I have way more than any one person needs so share with my neighbors.

old race horse photo

This is a photo of my Grandfather and his race horse. All I know is Grandma called him "Smokey Joe". I might try to find more at a later time. I have the colors here hanging on the wall, the silks the jocky wore when he rode Grandfathers horse. I remember as a small child going to the races with my grandparents. It was so exciting and I brought home a BIG bunch of non winning tickets, lol. My grandmother said she liked the grays. Sadly I lost my grandmother this last month and I lost my grandfather a few years ago.

Introducing Black River Armed With Ivory

This colt is intended to be the sire of Taffy's first foal. He will also most likely sire Mystic's first foal. He is a grandson of both Gen's Armed And Dangerous and Royal Ivory.

Family Vacation

Well a lot has happened since I left for CA. I had a nice visit with my family though it seemed I was only there a minute it seemes I was away for years. On the way we stopped at the Grand Canyon. A lot has happened since I have been back!

MY NEW FILLY. TRULY ONE OF A KIND!

This TWHBEA filly by DUNN CASHED IN is the newest addition to my broodmare band. She was born may of 2006. Darling's dam is by the Champagne stallion Hillbilly's Bud Light, a stallion I have long admired and considered breeding my mares to.

Champagne Dunn Darling LS (name pending)

Most duns in the TWHBEA are fasle or fading duns. Cash is a true dun siring true duns. Here you can see her dun stripe well.

Arrow's Blue Gold

This is Diamond Dust's first colt. I want to thank Elsie Darrah for these photos. She is a nice lady with nice horses. She can be found in the links section under Last Chance Farms.

Isn't he a dream to behold. I wonder where he is now. I would like to hear from anyone who knows.

Arrow's Blue Gold as a foal

Arrow's Something Else

This is Diamond Dust's second colt, born last year. He is still in Colorado at the Lazy Y Arrow. His sire Flash, is also the sire of my filly Taffy.

376 years is a lot of history behind 1 little horse

Arrow's Mystic Gold can trace her "Family Tree" (Tail-Male, Sire & Dam) back to "Ras el Fedowi" (aka The Darley Arabian, circa 1700). BTW, "Ras el Fedowi" translates to "The Headstrong One", but I wouldn't tell her that !

Can you believe it?

Also, through other horses, she traces back to all 3 Foundation Thoroughbreds (Darley,Beyerly & Godolphin) and Fairfax's Barb Mare (foaled about 1630!)

I saw some snakes yesterday. I was in the house looking out the front window and saw that the two old hens (Ameraucanas, they lay blue eggs) were out in the road. They were all worked up over something. I looked and saw what looked like a tire retread or something, maybe an innertube. As I looked it started to move around. It was something, a black snake?

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A couple of black snakes. What were they doing. I had to go out and get a better look, just like my hens. My first though was that they were mating. I called out my house mate to see. Didn't know they did it like that, she was on her back and he was on top. But then we notice she is dead. We decide to move them out of the road and the male bites and holds on the the female. Or so we thought. Now I wonder if it was a fight. He later returned to eat the dead snake. Anyone know?

Blue Gold

Here are a couple of lesser seen photos of Blue Gold. I believe they were taken while he was in training for the state fair.

She gets it from her Daddy

Diamond Dust has always liked to be a filthy mess. Now we know where it came from, lol. Blue Gold was a beautiful stallion as we can see here.

Jetstar Sunrider

This is the Sire of Blue Gold. This photo was taken when he was a fat old trail gelding. A much loved fat old trail horse.

Introducing...Arrow's Mystic Gold (name pending)

Diamond Dust and Wizard have given us a beautiful palomino filly. She can already step right out and is sooo pretty!

Isn't she lovely

"Mystic" was born Saturday, May 20th at 2am. She is already a very friendly and curious girl.

Pepper

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getting new tires

Last week before I went to Salem I needed to get new tires. This is the reason I didn't make the Hartville show. We made it just off the farm and had a blow out. You can see the house over Richard's shoulder.

Justin

This is Justin. I met him and his family this last weekend when I took Hag to meet her intended. Justin is a 6 year old walking horse gelding that is ready to be started under saddle. Though he wore one as a yearling he did not seem to know how to lounge properly. I hope to get him going well enough to start the rest of the family on their way to trail riding soon. I believe everyone needs something to take them away. Something they have controll over, or at least have a say in things. Hopefully you will be seeing more of Justin and his girls soon.

Taking the blue

Race to the finish

We took a 5th in gaited pleasure out of 12, and first in pole bending. I had thought we didn't even get a ribbon as we ran against the stock horses too.

Egg and spoon class

It was my fault we didn't win egg and spoon. The announcer said to change our grip on the egg as some had the egg too close and even though he was not talking to me I tryed to adjust and dropped the egg, we came in third. I should learn to ignore the announcer more.

Gaited pleasure class

Here we are at the fun show in Ava. We did have fun too. We entered three classes and got three ribbons.

Off to the show

Hag has learned to be caught very well. She has her ups and downs, her good days and her bad but over all she has come a long way towards being a great horse.

Arrows Diamond Dust

This is Diamond Dust today. She is just starting to show her dapples. She is due to foal next month to Wizard Jack a palomino stallion in Colorado.

The yard crew

Here is one of my geese working hard to weed my garden. Today I planted tomatoes and peppers, a couple of varities of each. I have watermelon started and the seedligs are up. I am such the little farmer! I picked up a friend to visit for the day and she was happy to just sit and watch the baby birds too, lol.

A morning stroll

Did I mention I live on like a 300 acre organic farm? This is Diamond Dust comming up to be loaded into the trailer to go for a ride. She is learning to lead and load real well. After she foals we will start her under saddle again. I put the saddle on her a few times last year in CO and she was fine with it. Of course I was just sadeling her then as part of getting her halter trained. She is one of those horses that didn't "break". I have not tryed to break her, just to teach her a better way.

Small animals

Here are some of my other animals. Front and center is my rabbit. I keep him on a teather to eat the weeds and grass from under the trees in the front yard where I can't graze the goats and horses. To the left, are my gardening crew. The geese do a great job of eating weeds. To the far right are my hens. They are the kind that lay the blue eggs. You can see the edge of my garden at the very far left. The bottles are mini green houses and keep the geese from eating my peas before they get big.

Watching the chickens

Well here is the proof, I have gone Ozark. A couch on the porch to watch the chickens from. Of course I can also see horses and goats etc...

This is Wizard Jack and my good friend Delene. Delene bought this horse to cross on her Blue Gold daughters. He has a whole different cream line. He has a more metalic shine than Diamond Dust with no Dapples. He is the Sire of Diamond Dust's expected foal. Diamond Dust is a Blue Gold Daughter so this is a foal with a lot of potential. You can see more photos of Wizard Jack and his foals on the Lazy Y Arrow link.

This is my new old side saddle I found at a shop. It had been left for repairs and not picked up in over two years. It needs work but I am unsure as to who to have work on it for me. For now I plan to see if I can ride it! I remember when I was young that I could ride sidesaddle on a cantering horse, bareback.