Misty's Adjustment

Hi Friends;

I missed joining you for several days while I was in KC. We were preparing for the big Thanksgiving holiday.

While in KC I was lucky enough to go to the American Royal horse show. I watched the USEF saddle seat equitation finals. Spectacular. There was also a full docket of saddlehorse and pony classes. The old show bug bit pretty bad!
Technology has hit the show ring. I rented a receiver with an earbud that I kept while watching the show. There was a live feed into my ear from very knowledgeable people as the class was being shown. For a horse show junkie who has been way out of the industry for a long time, it was like being part of the old action. I could hear all the ins and outs of the show horse, the rider, the owner, and other pertinent facts about the class. For novices, the monitors discussed what the judges were looking for. Apparently, a person could subscribe to a webfeed of the American Royal horse show and log on to watch every class over the Internet. Subscribers could also text and email comments to the people announcing the play-by-play live action to my earbud. It was very interactive and made me feel like I belonged back in the old groom days.......the good old days! Very fun and nostalgic.
I barely got my suitcase into the house when I zipped over to the jungle to visit the herd. They are sooooo happy to see people during the winter. Since we stopped trailering twice a week to the fairgrounds for classes, the horses are quite willing to come see you at the jungle. Of course, we only have a few remaining from the old fairground days. That's another story.....

New faces at One Heart

Welcome to the One Heart Blog. Thanks to Katie for encouraging me to take this on and teaching me how. It only took her xxxx months!

Let me tell you about how I think this blog will work. I will post, when I can, and the voice will be as if I am talking to YOU. I intend for this to be a way that all the volunteers, staff, me, and the community to keep track of what is happening at One Heart. We just finished our last session for 2009 and we are looking at a very long winter until we can all get together again. We keep busy some fun, some not so fun, but the volunteers are usually eager to keep up with all the news. So, I will give it a try.....

Thanks to the networking of volunteers and our website we were recently contacted about some new horses to consider for donation.

Misty, a five year old Haflinger mare arrived Nov. 1. She is about the size of Rocky. So far, she is not following the herd. I think she was somewhat overwhelmed by the gang. It might take her some time, but I think she will find a friend. Dani, Jen, and I went to check her out and we think she will be suitable for therapy in the spring. She is very sweet and gentle. She is a very pretty mare with lots of Haflinger type.

Monday, two Mini's from Mankato, MN arrived! We are smitten with the boys. Dandy and Miracle are full brothers 8 & 6 years old. They are only 31 inches tall, broke to drive all sorts of ways. They are sweeties. To avoid the burrs - they went to live with Helen at Wildrose Farm.

They settled in with Stormy, Helen's three year old thoroughbred. here is a picture of them chasing Stormy. Perhaps Storm thought they were the barn cats, at first ? They soon were snorting and greeting each other in a true horse way. Dandy is on the left, Miracle is on the right. All of their 6 other full siblings have a name beginning with "D". Miracle's dam had difficulty at foaling and the vet pronounced, "If the foal makes it, it will be a miracle." And it was.

I think I have entered the blogging sphere with a bang....and with pictures. How's that Katie!?!

Check back frequently, I will try to keep up. Kris