Weather?

I can’t seem to get it together this week. I heard rumblings this morning that we are expected to get some weather over the weekend. It’s the first I’ve heard of it. I’ve been so preoccupied with other things that I haven’t had time to pay any attention to the weather.

We’ve actually had some decent weather lately. I’m a little nervous that the warmer temps, that I’m loving, are an indication of the many months ahead (hot with little to no rain). But I guess we’ll just wait and see.  But the weatherman is calling for some sort of moisture Saturday night. Depending on which model they use, we could either get rain or snow.  One of the models is even calling for about five or six inches of snow. Somehow I don’t believe that. But it would be nice to get some moisture into the ground, although at this point everything is still frozen.

I’ve been enjoying our new boarder these past few days. I wasn’t exactly sure if I would like her but she’s a doll. She has a wonderful owner that very much cares for this little mare. She settled in right away and greets me whenever she sees me.  Monday night, I let her out of the barn and put her into her pen. Unfortunately that pen is adjacent to the big herd’s drylot. I was a little nervous but I threw hay to everyone to distract them. It seemed to work. There was a little bit of sniffing noses, squealing, and that little mare knows how to throw a hoof but otherwise, it was pretty low-key. She’s getting bigger by the day too. I need to find out when she’s due but I do think it’s fairly soon. I need to get a few more things ready for her to have the foal. I don’t want to be caught off guard like when Savanna had Sir Prize (aka Jett).  I do really like that little mare. I’m not a mare person but she’s got such a friendly personality. She reminds me of a younger version of Flower and Queen. She doesn’t yet have the wisdom those two had but she has the caring personality that I so very much miss. She’s nothing like Rabbit and Mayhem who want to be in charge. So I’m glad that I said yes to bringing on a boarder for a short time. Having Coplin with us makes the losses dull just a little. And to think, she was a $5 horse.

I was thinking about it this morning on the drive to work. We have lost a lot of family members since 2007 but for the past three years we’ll have new family members. Ok so Coplin isn’t ours nor will the foal but he/she will be born on Borderlands ground so he/she will feel like one of our own family! In 2011 Sir Prize (aka Jett) was born at Borderlands. Last year the Bear was born. And now we’ll have the new little foal born. It’s a warming feeling knowing that we are saying hello instead of goodbye.

If I don’t post much over the next few days it’s simply because we are busy or I’m totally stressed out and don’t know what to say (not that I don’t have stuff to say but I sometimes can’t put a full thought together). We are slowly working on getting things ready for the fundraiser. Mike finished one of the raffle items that we will be raffling off at the South Dakota Horse Fair. I’ll get a picture of it soon to post online for everyone to see. It’s pretty neat. I almost wish we could keep it! Maybe I’ll talk him into throwing a couple bucks into the raffle just to add to the numbers! But if you have any ideas for the fundraiser or want to be a part of it, please let me know. All proceeds will go directly to the horses!!!