When I woke up this morning I had no idea I was going to have horses in my barn tonight. Yes, it was going to happen someday soon, but today? Surprise.
Thinking ahead to Penny's happiness, I made arrangements to have two retired horses come live on my property this summer. They can both be out on grass 24/7 and I have plenty of grass. One is Condi, who I've been riding on occasion down at Working Student Land. The other belongs to my vet, who happens to live not a mile away from me. Both are retired dressage horses. Both their owners have to feed them hay year round due to not having awesome pasture. So, I get friends for Penny that I don't have to pay to feed, since my grass is free. And, I really love Old Man horses. There's something about their faces.
Getting Condi up here was proving to be an issue, due to busy schedules. Today I called the vet, letting her know it could be two weeks. She said, "Funny you should call. I just had all my afternoon appts cancel, so we could go get him right now." Long story short, an hour later we were on our way. We went and got Condi, requiring some horse rearranging down there so his buddy could be close to some other peripheral friends, including Penny as they used to live together elsewhere.
We stopped off and picked up Sonny, leaving his two mule friends bereft without him. Sonny and Condi were instant friends. Weird place with just the two of them helped, but even under those conditions it wasn't necessarily a given.
I have to ease them onto the grass, so it'll be a bit before they can be loose. I can't wait. Old man horses enjoying grass with a beautiful view? awesome.
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| Sonny on the left, Condi on the right. |
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