LIL Lotti

LIL Lotti is growing like a weed...a pretty weed at that.  The extreme heat has been a problem, but she is none the worse for wear.  She and Mom, Lora and Auntie Lucy are now back with the mares.  They have been off the main pastures for several weeks due to being very fluffy i.e. fat!  Fescue grass is not the Gypsy Horses' friend.  Too high in sugars during this drought as well as nitrates....not much we can do about this as Mother Nature has been in charge!  With the recent rainy days we should see things green up.  All that aside, the pictures from our photo shoot will be here soon and some can be viewed now on our face book sites...Chocolate Horse Farm, Home of Gypsy Vanner Horses....and....Carol Hobbs Dunbar.  Check Sparky out if you go to them....he is awesome!  (...but then, I knew that!)

After the Show!

The Blue Ridge Classic Gypsy Show is over and now is the time for reflection and evaluation.  It is a time for me to readjust or reconfirm my priorities.  In this instance, it is readjustment time.  The big farms brought very few horses and the ones or one they did bring were perfectly trained.  They were the highlights of the show and in every sense of the word...show stoppers.  Though lightly attended (it could have been called, but management bite the bullet and the show went on!), it was a classy show with a handful of lifetime professionals helping us and setting examples to be followed.  "One should only follow the best".  Why should I learn from someone without a resume, so to speak!

Traveler did well as the green demo horse/pony and we drove in two classes...one for green horses and one open.  survived!  And came out with ribbons!  Cracker had a going over by Doug, the ultimate in chiropractics plus and in 12 hours...we had the old Cracker back with all his pizzaz.......wow!  Scratched him from a couple of classes and discovered....I must have adult attention deficit disorder...I can not do an obstacle course if my life depended on it!  Can't remember much more than three directions at a time.....need I say more!