New Beginnings... Current Players

I figure Summer is a good month to start over again. All previous blog entries were erased.
New start to lets see what happens this time around.

Lots going on that is for sure.

MGTS is starting to get settled into our OWN location. House & horses in one location is a super nice change after so many years of having an hour long commute to visit with them.
Herd has grown & shrunk, horses have come & gone over the last few years as well.
Current herd players are:
King (My Old Man) is still as ornery as ever and keeping an eye on things.
 
Mardi is still Alpha and as witchy as ever towards all other horses.

Spartacus (Ide Be Spartacus) - new OTTB mare that arrived straight off the track last fall. Super nice mare looking forward to getting her going under saddle with plans to breed her (hopefully) next year.

Cowgirl (Okies Smokin Cowgirl) - a sweet AQHA mare who has a heck of a history to her who has found a safe spot here and come a complete 180 in attitude since arriving. She is due this summer with Bull's last foal.

Missy (SwissMiss) - Shelby's pony, currently on loan to my good friend Erika up in Birmingham area. Missy is enjoying the daily work and riding time that Shelby is not quite up to tackling yet (don't tell her that).

Boy (IAmMyMommasBoy) - Annie's 2011 colt who will hopefully grow into Bull's replacement. He has currently started training, so expect to hear more about him to come! It has been hard to send him off to be started but I had to admit with everything else going on right now I did not have the time to commit to him that a 2 y.o. colt needs to be started. 

Caly (Calypso Love Song) Rose's 2011 filly is back. I am very blessed to have been given the opportunity to get this filly back after losing both Rose & Bull over the last year. She looks JUST like her dam and it takes every bit of effort I have to keep from throwing a saddle on her to see if she will ride like her mama did (she needs more time to grow up first) 

MJ (MaryJane) - Sugar's 2012 twin-filly. She is growing up with her mama's attitude, but her sire's willingness to learn. Ornery & too smart for her own good is the best description of this little girl.
 
We lost Buddy (our twin colt) to a pasture accident in April - best we could tell is that he was doing what he loved best, running full steam, out in the pasture and hit a slick spot. The decision was made to euthanize him as soon as we arrived at the vet. That was a very hard day for all of us as Buddy was probably the biggest farm pet we had and captured everyone's heart with his stoic behavior while he defied all lives odds.

Besides the horses we have added a start of a nice herd of Sannen Dairy goats with great appreciation to Valley Vale Sannens. We have Rhapsody our doe (she has a story I will tell another time), a companion whether in Bar-B-Que (who was intended to be Dinner, we shall see), and now the newest addition a nice buckling who will be a herd sire: Valley Vale Captain Kirk.

Our flock of chickens keeps us well provided with eggs on a daily basis.

Guarding them all is Walker - Sunshine's Treeing Walker Coonhound - who has become the best darn farm dog we could have asked for. And of course Tim's Dachshund, lil' boy, who thinks his life goal is to be fat and convince us that he deserves to sleep on Sunshine's bed.

That makes up the players in the current MGTS farm family! Let see if I can keep this updated with daily life (or weekly anyways). Lots in the works so maybe that will encourage me to update and be able to track it all.