Horses for Clean Water

Horses for Clean Water is a wonderful, local, educational resource. Most of their education programs/classes are free! HCW focuses on teaching horse owners and land owners better, greener, land management.

A Memory of Bruneau Dunes

We call it a dust bowl because of the obvious - its a basin - and because of the odd behavior of the wind. For a part of the year the wind will blow Northwest, and for part of the year it will blow Southeast, which is why the dunes do not sail the desert like they might in the Sahara. The wind has a persona here. You can watch it crawl around the roots of a dune, causing the dust to billow in places like rapidly budding mushrooms. It will stealthily stalk you until it either loses patience or curiosity at which point it will roar. Its breath stings your skin like hell-fire and removes the use of your eyes. The wind is especially hard on horses.

Ranch Sorting at Hidden River Ranch

Ranch Sorting at Hidden River Ranch

Above photo extracted from Hidden River Ranch's website.

The location of Hidden River Ranch can be found on my Google Map right here.

Nickk the Horse

Nickk's last heart beat was Saturday night at 5:55pm.

I think that his passing was harder to deal with than any of us anticipated, even when we all knew it would be much different than losing a cat or dog - we had no idea what it would feel like to lose one of our horses.

Now we know.

Horse Cereal

It was nine degrees in Arlington this morning. My fingers threatened to fall off. I don't know what I was thinking - feeding horses without gloves? It was too early to think.

Arlington's Hometown Holiday 2009

Arlington's

Hometown Holiday

December 12th & 19th, 11:00am-5:00pm

Alright folks, after a weekend of Christmas tree hunting and holiday baking I finally sat down with the goal of writing about the city of Arlington's annual Hometown Holidays.

This last summer Timothy and I have spent a lot of time bailing hay, hauling hay, bucking hay, and itching with hay-fever. Earlier in the year, when hay was not being cut and bailed, we hunted around for some local grass that would bide us through the spring. This is how we became acquainted with a local Arlington man who participates in Arlington's Hometown Holiday every year. He does so by hitching up his team of Belgian draft horses (gorgeous animals) and giving wagon and sleigh rides around downtown. He said he looks forward to the event every year and with the weather we've been having it's likely that we will have snow this December. Hurray! I can hear the sleigh bells jingling, ring-ting-tingling too!

I am SO happy with Arlington's city website. Its easy to navigate, there's good content, and they seem really eager to get citizens excited about town projects.

According to our local Arlington man, the city goes all out for this Christmas event. I wouldn't miss it! The details are in the city's flyer here.