Sunday, March 13, 2016

Sunday Stills


Mick, Nemo, Blu, B-Rad and Lighty


Nemo and Taco


Murphy, Happy and Sebastian


Apollo, Hemi, Moe, Tony and Thomas


Walon and Rubrico galloping through the pasture with Clayton watching


Convey and Chance


Grand and Moe


Grand


Moe


Fabrizzio, Walden and Havana


George, Gus and Asterik


Silver


pretty sunrise



same sunrise about 20 minutes later

Thursday, March 10, 2016

More of Life with Timbit

We've shared before what life is like with Timbit. Even though he is technically a miniature horse and not a pony he lives up to every stereotype of a pony. He has napoleon complex. He hates all vets. Both of our farriers always hope the other one is going to trim Timbit's hooves. He doesn't respect fences of any type. I could keep going but you get the general idea. Carter loves Timbit, and Timbit is actually good with Carter, so Jason and I force ourselves to live with the little trouble maker.

Timbit's favorite thing in the world is a new resident at the farm.  He always introduces himself, gets them all riled up and excited about him, and then leaves. I think he likes to listen to them screaming his name.  He's had a couple of opportunities recently to introduce himself to new horses.


Timbit with new resident Cisco


Some still frames from the video above. Cisco saying, "watch this." 


Timbit saying, "I can do that."



I call this video the "drive by" visit from Timbit. He comes in like a speeding bullet, makes his presence known, and leaves like a speeding bullet. The bay horse is our new resident Havana who was hanging out with his "brother" Cino when Timbit came for a visit.


One thing seems to always be true at Paradigm Farms. The more things change, the more Timbit remains the same. 

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Sam rolled . . . 


. . . then it was Lighty's turn . . . 



. . . and Johnny's turn . . . 



. . . and finally B-rad's turn


George, Cocomo and Asterik


Fabrizzio, Walden and Cino


Oscar and Donovan


Elfin


Baner



George and Donneur


Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Breaking Things

We've spent a lot of time destroying fences over the last couple of days. Some of the fence we meant to take out, some of it we did not. Since a picture is always worth a thousand words I have pictures of our work. 

We meant to remove these fence sections. Jason decided he needed a bigger gate. A few minutes with a chainsaw and a front end loader and voila. When this picture was taken we thought tractors and equipment were great. Look how easy they make everything.


We intended to replace a post in this section of fence. Instead we caught the bottom board of the fence with the auger and within about half a second we had lifted our fence off the ground and sheared some posts. Sometimes you can get yourself into trouble with tractors and implements.


Of course the above scene happened at 5pm, twelve hours into our outside work (not to be confused with inside work). In what has to be an unprecedented event we didn't scream and yell at each other, no one threw out the word stupid, and we generally acted like mature adults as we surveyed this scene. Carter thought the whole thing was hysterical. "Look at the broken fence mommy!"  Yes, mommy and daddy are both fully aware of the broken fence, but thanks for pointing it out. 

Dinner was extremely late tonight, and this post is going to be pretty short!

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Walden, Remmy and Hesse


Convey


A very clean (ahem) Merlin and Fabrizzio


Rubrico and River


Tony and Baby


Homer and Levendi


Elfin and Moe


Mick and Taco


Lily and MyLight


Dolly, Calimba and Cinnamon


Grand and Rip

Sunday, March 6, 2016

Sunday Stills


Lighty, Johnny, Happy and Murphy


Tony and Grand


Maisie


Dolly and MyLight


Lily and Cinnamon


Johnny and Rubrico



Rip, Convey, Elfin, Grand and Hemi; everyone was eating hay except Convey who appears to be eating Elfin's ear.


Duesy


George, Faune, Flyer and Donneur waiting for breakfast


pretty morning on the farm