Rain, continued ...

In between the rains I managed to catch this photo of a butterfly that landed on our White Lilac. I love photos like this! This butterfly just gorged itself on the wonderful nectar of all the blooms for a good 10 mins or more.







The rains, as ugly as they can be, just caused the flowers and trees to flourish! Our Azaleas were gorgeous this year! Even through the raindrops and, most times, the rain SHEETS!, the spring flowers bloomed, the trees blossomed, allergies ran rampant *grin* but all in all it seemed like a beautiful tropical jungle with color all around the farm.

Ahhhhh, the sweet day of getting new toys! 'Papa' John FINALLY got his tractor and couldn't wait to set it to work. More rain yesterday when it arrived but that was no deterrant (until he hit water just a foot below the surface of the ground level!) Our community service young man and John spent considerable time getting used to the new tractor. It certainly will help around this farm! There are plenty of rocks and stumps left to remove; new fencing to go in; the barn needs to be raised up and new footings and floors put down; paddocks to be cleaned and scraped and new ones built ... methinks the inside of the house will never be finished at this rate! *hahahaha*

Now, if the rains would only hold off for a few weeks ...

Rain, rain and more rain!

Wooo Hoo! This blog is working again! Hurray! Couldn't post for the longest time cause I could never get past the part where they ask for your password! I changed the cookies setting in my puter so I guess that did the trick.

Have MUCH to tell! We've actually accomplished much in spite of the horrific rains we've had!

The photo above shows our newest helper making friends with Rusty. The young man is a community service worker here for awhile and he took right to Rusty and Rusty to him. They've become great pals! Even in spite of all the rain we've gotten. It's been hard work around here with all the mud and water but this young man has proven to be one hard worker. He's a great assest, so far, to PENZANCE! And, Rusty so enjoys his groomings and playtime with his new friend! The two of them do very well together.

The photo to the left is one of our regular working students exercising Winnie ... the little mare who foundered severly and perforated her Coffin Bones right down through her soles. (See www.barefoottrim.com fo r her story under Pathologies.)Well, she's back into work and play finally, in full force! She's can be a lively little gal (the mare but, yeah, the working student, too! *grin*) and has enjoyed her time of learning to be a horse again. For all the dullness when we first met she is really quite an animated mare! I think she may just like her life here at Penzance! She'll never have to wear a bit again and certainly, there will be no spurs or other nasties to make her "behave". We happen to like the horses around here to want to work and play. Would rather have a horse WANT to go out on the trail than one that "needs" to be forced by whip or spur or bits.

And here's our Tamilyn Rose with a saddle all girthed up and ready to ride. First time except for when she was first here and just a weanling. She didn't bat an eyelash ... merely stretched around to both sides, sniffed, then let out a big sigh and dropped her head! Now, hopefully the actual backing will be just as easy! She's just turned 3, though, so the backing won't happen right away. Maybe by the end of this season but she won't be ridden until next fall as she's going on 5 years old. She's a big girl and the temptation is certainly there but she's still got a whole lot of growing to do, yet!

Rather than push my luck on this blogger server I'm going to continue this update in another posting ... so, tune in to the next entry ... :)