School is in… Our herd has grown!
Homeschooling has officially begun for the year. It’s a whole new ball game now that I am adding Equine Bowen Therapy appointments to my life 
3rd grade & pre-K… I love teaching my kids!!! We are BLESSED beyond measure to add a new Quarter Pony to our herd and she is loving our P.E. activity of horseback riding.
Right now her name goes between Baby and Bailey. Her name was Baby when we got her and what started out as a mistake became a name that my son adores. Bailey. We looked up the meaning (because that is important to us all around here) and it means “steward”. Fitting, since she carries around our little ones. My son asked if it would confuse her to call her Bailey instead of Baby and I told him that they sound so similar I don’t think she’d ever notice. So, he goes between the two names… or sometimes calls her Baby Bailey.
Baby Bailey is the MOST beautiful little liver sorrel pony ever. She looks almost exactly like Davis- no white at all… she’s just shorter and darker. She is friendly, sweet and BROKE. She is going to be a great teacher for this phase of my boy’s horsemanship as she makes him earn every little bit that she offers. I love her already. Of course, so does he.
We are enjoying our fairly mild summer, yet ready for fall. Our garden over the summer was fun… strawberries, peas, green onions. A few tomatoes and one little pumpkin… it was our first pumpkin that I was able to manage to grow, so I’m excited, even though it’s mini.
Now is the time for soap making to prepare for the Christmas holiday season and stock up the feed store in Cool. It’s the time for spending loungy days inside under a fan working in our workbooks together. The time for science projects, music and art. Preparations for holidays, snuggling by the wood stove, blankets and hot apple cider all day.
I’m in the process of winterizing my horse trailer (oh yeah- I don’t think I’ve mentioned it since I haven’t been around my computer enough to keep up with the blog… Not only do I have the perfect 2 horses for myself and my little cowboy, but the Lord has also blessed us with a great little 2 horse trailer!!!!) and then it’s time to stock up on fire wood. Hmmm… not sure I like the firewood chore, but at least it will keep us warm and toasty.
Now, I’ll leave you with a little “funny”, as a way of offering my deepest apologies for not being around much of the summer. This is all true- It’s all me… I posted this on a message board to some of my other horsie friends and Leslie (always with the great ideas, lol) suggested I share it here too.
OK- I had the most redneck day today.
I ran out of pore strips so I tried duct tape.
I realized I bought the wrong color rust protectant paint for the chips/nicks in my horse trailer’s hitch and thought about using it anyway.
I went to my family reunion only to find out as I pulled up, it was in a trailer park.
I didn’t know there would be a pool at the reunion, so we didn’t have bathing suits with us. I was advised by multiple of my oakie relatives we should just swim in our clothes. In the public pool.
My cousin and I were laughing so hard we had tears coming out our eyes and we wondered how long it would take before an uncle whipped out a banjo and a cousin started playing a saw.
She and I didn’t let our kids swim in their clothes, but we did let them run in the sprinklers on the lawn. Then we dried them with paper towels.
Upon having an adorable conversation with my cousin’s 2 year old about cows, she informed me… No that’s not a cow, it’s a bull. Cows have milk and bulls have balls.
Tonight I really wanted to relax and forget about my redneck day & have a cocktail and watch Grey’s Anatomy on netflicks. I had no o.j. so I put some rum in some orange flavored generic chrystal light from Walmart.
If I’d have known how the rest of my day was going to turn out, I never would have tried the duct tape thing.
P.S. About the picture above: Yes, I was frumpy, hot and sweaty. It as a billion degrees out and we’d driven over 3 hours to meet her :~) But look how she loves the boy already!