Brannagh’s turn tonight! Got a nice quick bath since she doesn’t need the absolute devo­tion and ded­i­ca­tion Sor­cha needs with all that hair! lol. She also has a much shorter atten­tion span for groom­ing than Sor­cha by a mile....

Well, what can I say about lit­tle Greta other than she is SO adorable! She is inquis­i­tive, kind of eye and face and is now grow­ing teeth of course.…LOL. She is so thick, com­pact, won­der­fully con­formed and yet moves like she is train­ing to be a barel racer in cir­cles around her graz­ing mum.…

So Bren-Bren is absolutely LOVING her new digs…she is now, and almost was right away (mind you we have only been there for 2 weeks now, though it seems like longer) out with other horses…she is even out with a big ‘ol giant retired bull! Remem­ber, this is the girl who sup­pos­edly ran through fences.….. and fought with other horses…I think the horses attacked her to be hon­est and her being thrown in a dry lot only served to give her rea­son to ‘move on to greener pas­tures’ so to speak! lol. She is SO com­pletely happy,

Both girls trimmed on Sat­ur­day, both stood per­fectly with­out cross ties while being worked on, baby Greta stood duti­fully by momma watch­ing the won­der Phil do his work on her hooves. Every­one thinks Sor­cha is putting on weight, I remain skeptical...

SCRATCHES, DRY HAIR, ‘ITCHIES’ AND MORE: For those deal­ing with any­thing *akin* to scratches, here is a great link! Now that the horses are TOTALLY in my over­see­ing of their care, I’m using a ver­sion of this (passed by my won­der­ful vet) to treat Sorcha’s dermatitis…which, by the way, is NOT scratches at all, nor mites. She has ouch­ies behind her knee area that she picks at all the time (kind of like me and my mos­quito bites lol) and just never allows them to heal com­pletely...

REMEDY FOR "SCRATCHES"
by Heather Smith Thomas
http://www.anvilmag.com/farrier/101f5.htm in the Jan­u­ary 2001 Issue of Anvil Mag­a­zine
Note: Images with cap­tions are included at the end of this article.

*Pub­lished

‘Scratches’ is a term that refers to a skin prob­lem on the lower legs of horses, caused by a fun­gus (and some­times com­pli­cated by bac­te­ria). The affected area...

Met with a trainer for Bran­nagh on Sat­ur­day and was very excited and pleased. Tried my best to not be the horse mom that says ‘how won­der­ful’ her horses are and leaves out all the ‘silly quirks’. I think I made it out worse than it was of course, but made sure I gave as much infor­ma­tion as pos­si­ble. The more knowl­edge a trainer has, the bet­ter they can be pre­pared for what to expect in train­ing, I say... 

BRANNAGH NEWS: So The Mon­ster got a good groom­ing the other day and shed a lit­ter of kit­tens. Bran­nagh, it seems, is a late bloomer in the feather department…she’s real­l­l­lly start­ing to bulk up on her hair! She’s on a sup­ple­ment, but only a black horse one, noth­ing spe­cial. Tail wrap still hold­ing strong…she’s got such dif­fer­ent hair than Sor­cha, it’s so odd how var­ied in so many ways the Cobs can seri­ously be!

SORCHA UPDATE: I felt the baby do a shuf­fle in Sorcha’s belly last night.  She is look­ing so much bet­ter lately and it makes me feel less ner­vous. Her feather is grow­ing back in nicely and she is much much more com­fort­able with any ‘itchies’. Re-wrapped her tail the other day too…braids have been hold­ing out fine,… just the wrap needed some re-doing.  She’s such a chunk! Still doing the Sil­ver Simon Baby Dance!!!

A Lifetime Love of All Thing Gypsy…
a Tribute of Sorts…(aka My First Gypsy)

Par­don the length, it’s my story and it just flows…just skip me if you don’t like long!

The back­story: I took my first, long-anticipated trip to the UK in 2000.  I never thought I’d ever make it there, thought this would be my once in a life­time trip.  Even bought an expen­sive HD cam­corder at the time and was called the mad pho­tog­ra­pher when I was there because I never stopped film­ing (12 hours worth), nor tak­ing pic­tures.  I wanted it all remem­bered.  I had done a giant web­site for the Roman­tic Times Con­ven­tion and Kathryn’s tours…

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