It's one of the best times of the year.... Upperville-mas, where we celebrate being together with beautiful horses, and the ones who have been really good this year receive ribbons from the mythical St. Claus Bride! I think they officially shortened the name to Upperville Colt and Horse Show because[...]
Now that little Bridgette is 5 weeks old, I figured it was time for her to meet the horses. After all, she's going to be spending her WHOLE LIFE with them, so the sooner she gets along with them the better. (We're agreed the whole point of having kids is to force your hobbies on them, right? Ok, goo[...]
Horses in the snow!
I've had big barn plans in the past, but I've since scaled back my more elaborate ideas. A couple of factors play into this - the time required, the cost, and considering resale value down the road. If I built something more elaborate, chances are I would never get my money back. So, the ne[...]
This has been the wettest year I can remember. Certainly, the wettest year since we bought this farm. We would get weeks of rain, one week of sun, and more weeks of rain. All that rain amounted to so much mud. More mud than I've dealt with. My normal mud control is to scrape it out onc[...]
It's been almost three months since my last post. My god, where has the time went?! At first it was time. And then it was exhaustion. And then when it wasn't my routine anymore, I just forgot about it... To get everyone all caught up, here's the high level of things that happened over the last[...]
My little Stubert is officially a yearling now! My little boy is growing up! Technically his birthday was June 4th, but it's never to late to celebrate! So what has little Stubert been doing? Well, I'm glad you asked! He's gone on solo walks around the property, getting a bit exci[...]
Happy Monday everyone! The rain finally stopped in Virginia (for now), the animals are doing good, and I'm really excited about an upcoming trip. I've gotten out of the practice of updating, but I'm going to try to get on a regular schedule again. I'm thinking like Monday, Wednesday, Friday. The pre[...]
We visited one of our favorite places - Greenstone Farm! Where's Stu's little life came into being! They already have a bunch of foals, and then they have sweet little yearlings that I remember from last year as foals, and of course, the big guys, Stu's sire, and Ollie's sire. Here is Stu's sire,[...]
Springtime is Virginia Gold Cup time! One of the best excuses to day drink, ever! Gold Cup attracts about 100,000 people from the DC area to our little area of Virginia. We joked on the way over there that for some of the people who come, this is likely the only time they leave the metro[...]