It seems sacrilegious for me to say this but, my garden is tiny this year. After having nearly 20 people disappear when it came time to finalize a CSA for 2009, we decided to say the heck with it and grow enough for us and a few neighbors and friends. And besides…
We needed more room for turnout for the horses.
Seriously, I only planned on Katie but Paco needs to be babied and cared for so everyone expecting bushels of heirloom tomatoes will need to make due with organic horse poo for your own garden instead. And as of this week, it will no longer be entirely organic horse poo either. (Boy oh boy I am just zinging things at you right and left aren’t I?!?!?). Dear Paco needs more “OOMPH!!” than good old pasture can give to gain back some weight so we are giving him a blend of Triple Crown Senior and Triple Crown Complete. Nice fat, not a ton of crap filler…he loves it.
And hay? WOW! We found AMAZING hay! Gorgeous silkie grass hay..smells like heaven and is soft enough to want to sleep on. Of course in my allergic state that isn’t going to happen anytime soon, but I look at it this way…I can snuffle and sneeze my way through feeding to make them so blissfully happy!
I have tons of photos…so far behind ugh!..look for them this week.
I had wonderful plans to spend the day photographing “the kids” but the weather was so nasty Saturday that we had to catch up with all the work we put off. I did managed to catch Paco and Katie grazing, and boy are they muddy! We got some EXCELLENT hay yesterday to, so fattening up Mr. Paco shouldn’t be a problem now. They are loving the Triple Crown complete too. Paco gets a blend of the Senior and Complete and Katie just gets a sprinkle to make her happy.
copyright 2009 - farmatnanticokecreek.com
and remember when I mentioned Mr. NoPhoto? Well here he is..hiding!
Meet Paco. He was adopted from Sunkissed Acres to be a therapy horse at Stable Movements, but after a visit from Dr. Hartman due to some lameness he experienced in the Special Olympics it was decided that his old healed injuries are “crunchy” enough to warrant a nice retirement. So he will live here and give rides for the littlest ones and happily spend his time being groomed and loved on. He needs some weight, some love, some rehab. He’s here to stay and Katie loves him. Welcome home Paco…
And this is Bonkie. I know tons of you remember when we adopted Bonkie. He was pretty bald, septic and in rough yeasty, yucky shape. While his gorgeous face will be forever changed because of his lengthy battle with allergies, he looks like a million bucks to us and is happy, plump and loveable as ever.
and my gorgeous Miss Scarlett…relaxing in the pasture with her new buddy.
And where is the lovable little pony you ask? He has decided to be extremely unphotogenic lately. He sees the camera and bolts! I don’t think he ever got over the St. Patricks day dress up thing…
by Colleen Cheechalk
no comments
add a comment link to this post email a friend