Find A Rainbow Day

It's Find A Rainbow Day and even our local TV station is getting into these odd holidays!

https://www.keloland.com/…/national-find-a-rainb…/1897092787

Lets have some fun today and see your rainbows. Show off your rainbows in the comments. Don't have a picture of a rainbow in the sky? No problem. Show off the rainbow of horses you have! Just because a rainbow is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple (or indigo depending on when you were taught the colors of the rainbow) doesn't mean those are the only colors!

Maybe you're rainbow is bay, sorrel, palomino, black, gray, buckskin. So show off your rainbows in the comments!

And enjoy Find a Rainbow Day

#FindARainbowDay

 

Our Rainbow at the Sanctuary

World Party Day

Today is jam packed with holidays and activities! Not only is it #FindARainbowDay, it’s also World Party Day! World Party Day is based on the idea that peace is not the opposite of war, merely its absence. The real opposite of war is party, and World Party Day aims to synchronize a massive, world-wide party to celebrate everything that is good and optimistic.

 

“Pass the food and turn up the music” is a common slogan on World Party Day but it doesn’t really matter how you celebrate, or even whether you celebrate alone or with others. The premise is that everyone in the world is joined in party, so you can really do anything you like as long as it involves celebrating the joy of existence!

 

So who’s with us on World Party Day! Show off how you’re celebrating World Party Day today (please keep it clean).  Don’t want to show off your party skills? That’s ok, show off how your horses, cats, dogs, etc. party on World Party Day!

Have fun and let the good times roll.

 

#PartyDay

#TipTuesday

It's #TipTuesday and we are going to talk about spring pastures! Even though there is fresh snow on the ground, the grass is starting to grow and it'll soon be pasture time!

Once Cent Day

There's too much stress and negativity in the world these days. We'd like to combat the stress by sharing a few giggles and laughs for the month of April. We hope you'll join us either here or on Facebook to see what all the laughing is about.


So to start out the month right, today is One Cent Day! It's a day to celebrate the penny. And what better way than to collect those pennies and donate them to the Sanctuary (or any reputable charity). It's amazing how fast those pennies add up!


It's no April Fools Joke either! Google One Cent Day and read all about it (while you're searching the couch for those lost pennies).


If you want to donate those pennies to the Sanctuary, you can via PayPal at www.paypal.me/Borderlands or send them through the mail to 26160 457th Ave Humboldt, SD 57035


We'd love to see how you collected those pennies! Post a picture on our Facebook page or leave a comment on this blog post!


Happy One Cent Day!


#OneCentDay
#CrazyHolidays

Monday Motivation

#MondayMotivation

Introducing My Girl

Yesterday we had some excitement. We haven't brought in a new Sanctuary horse since December 2015 when we welcomed Lace. (I bought Lightening as a personal horse for drill team in January 2017 but that doesn't count for Sanctuary numbers.)


We'd been working since December to bring in our newest member of the Sanctuary, My Girl. The weather didn't cooperate and life sorta got in the way but we finally made arrangements for My Girl to come live with us.


She comes from an owner who wanted to do right by her and you can tell in everything this mare does that she's been well cared for. She was groomed down to the last hair (I felt bad for putting her in the pen because even her hooves were clean and shiny, which is hard to do with all this mud). Her owner was having some medical issues that needed to be taken care of and wouldn't allow her to take care of My Girl so we said yes.


I realize that there may be a rub for some reading that last year. We were asked to take in horses last year and we had to turn them away. Saying no caused me much anxiety but my own medical issues needed to be taken care of first. But now that I'm no longer pregnant, we can open our doors to one or two horses and My Girl just happened to fit our criteria and our timing.


I wish that we could open our doors to every deserving horse but because we are a Sanctuary, we have to take into consideration many factors. But I digress. Back to My Girl.


I haven't spent much time with her. I want to give her the next few days to settle in and figure out the ropes. I put her in the smaller pen next to the geldings so she was able to meet everyone that wanted to come up to the fence. Of course Chaos, Dude, and King were right there trying to see what this new horse was all about.


This morning, I found My Girl standing next to Brego (fence in between), quietly enjoying each others company. This is why I love Brego. He's my Walmart greeter. He wants to make sure that everyone feels welcome.


You can tell My Girl has been handled a lot . She came right up to me this morning without even knowing our routine. I think she was looking for answers. She had a questioning look on her face. If I could only tell her that everything will be alright.


But for now, she's in a pen with the geldings in another pen next to her. Depending on if there's time tonight, I may introduce the mares to her or I may just let her hang out for another day or two in a pen by herself so she gets used to me and the horses from afar. She's already gone through a lot of stress having to move from the only home she's ever known. She's only ever had one owner in her entire life so this is a big change for her. We want to take things slow and make sure we keep the stress to a minimum.


I'll be posting more (probably on Facebook) but wanted to share here as a record as well.


Please meet our newest member, My Girl.

You don't have to  look far to  notice she doesn't have a spec of dirt on her except her hooves and that's because I had to put her in this pen. She was groomed from head to hoof before coming to the Sanctuary.

Attemded the Tri-State Horse Expo

This past weekend we attended the Tri-State Horse Expo. It was a crazy weekend filled with great people, horses, scavenger hunt (think we'll make this annual), and Light the Night (we'll do it again at the end of April).


I'm still recovering from the Expo and trying to get caught up at the Sanctuary after being gone for three straight days. The horses are telling me that they are missing me as well. I love how they come up to see what I'm doing (well not all of them but most).


I want to share a story about our scavenger hunt but will do that on our Facebook page. It was a humbling experience and I want those kids (and their parents) to know they are amazing people!


But for now, we are trying to dry out and get back to normal. Although my normal hasn't been normal in over a year. I guess it's a new normal, which isn't a bad thing (new baby, new paying job, new season, yay for spring).


But I wanted to hop online and say we are here and doing ok. We survived the flooding but our hearts go out to those that have been severely impacted by the torrential flooding in our  neighbor state, Nebraska. I cannot fathom the devastation and I send my prayers in that direction.