My Sadness, Tears, and Return

Soooo this last week has been quite emotional for me and become somewhat of a blur. Last Saturday one of our beloved friends and truly special horses passed away. Scooter was what I said always was the million dollar horse. He carted around my 6 year old daughter and was the perfect gentleman. Loosing a horse never gets easier for me and when they are a close member of the family it makes it even more difficult. My daughter lost her first horse a year ago Christmas and now once again she looses her beloved friend uggggg. I personally have taken his death very hard and several days later am just getting things rolling in life again. I have slacked off on working with my mustang and basically with everything but again I am getting back on track and getting things done. In fact a friend of mine saw me at the grocery store last night and even said Hi to me and I walked right past and did not even notice he was there wooooooow how scarey is that...

Soooo to anyone out there who I was rude to I AM SORRY!!!!! Please forgive me my brain was not where it was suppose to be.... I am ready to talk now though lol..... anyway it took me several days to even get to a place to tell you all about him but here we are.....

Last but not least if anyone can help make a donation in Scooters name to help cover the hauling costs for him we had to put out $190 that was not expected or planned in the budget which is extremely tight right now!

Tons of Misc.

OK sooo it has been way too many days since I have updated all of you.... I have been having entirely too much fun with the Mustang and she has been taking alot of my time as you can imagine.

First, I am doing a yard sale this weekend and NEEEEEEEEEEEEED some volunteers to help set up everything oh around 7am would be a great time for that. I will also need some people to help pack everything up and put it away around 3pm also. If anyone wants to help out please email me at courtney@uawr.com or call me at 951-318-2275. THANK YOU!!!

Next, several people have asked about the colicing mare and she is doing WONDERFUL, thank you all for your prayers and support for her!!!! My finger is doing great too it has not fallen off it is still a bit sore but still in tact lol.

Mustang mare I have decided is for sure pregnant I can see that baby moving around in there so we will take things slow and easy well not like I wasn't anyway but its all good she is coming around so well and even walks towards me when i come out to see her. Love this girl what a sweetheart she is!!!

My verse of the day:
"Give and you will receive. Your gift will return to you in full-pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, running over, and poured into your lap. The amount you give will determine the amount you get back." Luke 6:38

Please do not mistake the GIVE part as needing to be monatary giving give your heart, give your time, a helping hand, or whatever you have to give it does not need to be money. Hmmmm that one sure made me ponder more... I truly have always been about give and you shall receive.....kinda goes with my Make a Difference Monday.

Enjoy and have a GOOD Friday tomorrow and I will be sure to write again soon!!

Mustang Mare Day 2

OK so first off we need to get this girl a name... Second I want to say THANK YOU to Danny who pushed me to take this adventure on... I was not going to do this and he pushed me to "Go for IT!!" soooo here we are and WOOOOW what fun I am having.... Sooo with that said I think I am going to hand the job of naming this mare off to him.... lol

So I worked with her this morning and she did quite well... she is a quick learner and responds to the Natural Horsemanship wonderfully. But, then again Natural Horsemanship is just that Natural and working with what nature has taught them in order to get the desired results. Imagine that and this stuff works.... lol

I got an email last night where someone told be that I had a fresh canvas to Paint WOOOOWWWW when you really think about that how amazing is that...??? I LOVE that and paint away I will, it is always wonderful to take a clean canvas and paint anything I desire onto that canvas rather then trying to undo the bad and the other things that humans have done to these poor horses. Especially the mustangs they tend to be the most misunderstood horses of them all. I have not taken a completly wild one front start to finish in quite sometime and I am remembering why I LOVE to do it....Uh oh is Ridgecrest BLM facility going to be my home away from home...????

I then worked with her again this afternoon and WOW how wonderful did that go. I have already gotten her to the point that she will lead and not perfect but does give and lead around the round pen. She will allow me to touch her nose and will eat hay and carrots out of my hand. The carrot was a riot she takes the smallest most dainty bits ever she is alllllllllll girl that is for sure..... The part I was really hoping would not happen... well it happened today I am falling in LOVE with this sweet girl and the though of having to give her up and the end of this all in May just breaks my heart. I will however keep moving forward with her and allow my emotions and all of that to be handled by the Lord. She truly is a special girl though and even after a day I can see that someone is going to have a great horse in their hands on May 17th.

Enjoy the pics and video and I will keep updating everyone on how things are going.

Today was Mustang Pick Up Day

So my day started bright an early as usual around 5:30am this morning. Most of you know that I have had a horse here that has been battling colic for 5 days and also had 2 rounds of oiling at the vet hospital soooo needless to say I have been spending alot of time running her to the vet hospital and giving shots of meds at late hours of the night and early morning and all that good stuff so sleep has not been in my schedule much these days. Anyway, so first thing this morning I was drawing up the meds to give her morning dose of drugs and in my haste and being half asleep I went to put the cap back on the needle and managed to stab my finger all the way thru my finger and out the other side.... it was LOVELY!!!!! Can I tell you how bad that HURT!!!! Sooooo that was the beginning of my day and I though oh no this is not a good way to start....sooooo in the meantime I think I like jabbed the needle thru the vein that runs down my finger and so can you bruise your veins lol lol or maybe it is the tendon, ligament, whatever who knows....my whole finger is blue and purple now and still hurts really bad!!!! Anyway, that's the end of my whinning lol I will live and hopfully my finger will not fall off... :)

I then took my daughter to school and headed off to Tania's house and I send a HUGE THANK YOU out to Tania for taking time out of her busy day and driving me up to pick up my mustang today since my truck is just not big enough and had bald tires and to make a 2 hour trip I figured it just was not smart to make that trip. We headed out around 8:30am this morning and on the road we were.... we all were a bit concerned about the weather as the reports were that a snow storm was coming in. Well Thankfully we made it there and back home with no problems what a blessing that was!!! You can see in the picture the beautiful skies in route to the BLM Facility in Ridgecrest. By the way the snow storm hit us literally right as we pulled into the driveway at Tania's and were home... Thank you Lord for that wonderful blessing of great weather for our travels.

Upon our arrival we pulled in the drive and snapped a few pics of the facility and I said ohhhhhh I want that stack of hay...what a dream come true that would be!!! I made my way into the office where I had to fill out all the paperwork in order to be able to take my new friend home. I then found out her number was 1980 and then someone from the back room shouted out "That was a GOOD year!" lol soooo our little girl is number 1980. She was captured from Tonapah, Nevada. She was born sometime in 2006 and is said to be a bay with white star but hmmmmm I am not tooo sure about that color thing....You all will have to let me know what you think????? I personally think she is a chestnut but well I will let you all decide. I then made my way outside in the FREEEZING cold and wind in order to get our girl loaded....yippie!!!!!!!

We did see that she is quite the kicker while in the chute waiting to be loaded she was doing some serious kicking to the walls and the chute....loading however was quite uneventful as they generally do they opened up the gates and she flew out of the chute and jumped right into the trailer.... she was very scared and started running around the trailer for a few minutes and was rocking it around quite well. We then got a few pics of her in the trailer and decided we needed to hit the road in order to help calm her down and hopes that she did not kick the crud out of the trailer. Once we got moving she calmed down fairly quickly though and rode all the way home fairly good.

Once we got her home unloading went really well we backed right up to the round pen and once I opened the door she just jumped right off and into the round pen. We then got a bit better look at her and Tania and I both went hmmmm she looks pregnant so now that is the questions is she or is she not in foal....???? Hmmmm well I guess we will have to get her halter broke first to find that one out. She seems to be ok and settling in she is nervous of course but eating and drinking well.

Stay tuned for more updates on what she is doing....

Random Thoughts and Comments

Sooo I am getting excited about Friday which is when we go to pick up my Extreme Mustang Challange horse.... I am nervous and excited all at once....awwwwwwwwwwwww

So I also wanted to say that big beautiful white horse Nikki was riding in my last post IS AVAILABLE for adoption if anyone is interested he is a 15 year old TB Gelding who does Dressage and he is a sweety and needs a great home to call his own.

I will add photos of my Mustang once he/she gets home weeeeeeeeeeeee yippie I am excited..... lol ok that is about it for today not much going on as I have mainly been dealing with a colicing horse for the past 2 days and that has been taking up most of my time.

Rainy Saturday Afternoon

So like woow what did we do today....???? We got busy, my very favorite new volunteer named Nikki (hope that is cool for me to tell the world about you ) she comes up here from quite a ways away lets just say Yucapia lol..... anyway she makes the drive up here now every Saturday and I think I am gonna have to start baking her cookies or something to keep her coming back cause she is the volunteer of my dreams the kinda person that I don't have to baby sit all day that is a self starter do it all, get it done kinda girl... sooooo today I am doing my own thing and I turn around and this girl had half the round pen raked and smoothed out... by hand mind YES she got out there with a rake and literally leveled the round pen.... that is IMPRESSIVE!!!!!! Then she moved on to riding horses and can I tell you she got 3 horses ridden today that too in just WONDERFUL!!!! So my entry for today is just simply THANK YOU Nikki and I am so Blessed to have you here to help out and really do hope you continue to come back... and hey if that required me really baking cookie just let me know I am on it!!!!!

A Wonderful Rainy Day

Well the first thing I thought was uh oh I was planning on having a yard sale this weekend...bummer I am thinking that is not going to happen seeing as it is suppose to rain for the next several days. So I will just go with the flow there and see what happens.



I then moved forward to hauling a few horses to their new homes. That is always a wonderful thing to have another horse find a wonderful new home. Yippie!!!!



So last night I attended the meeting for Riverside Recreational Trails and what a wonderful group of people see their site at http://www.rrtrails.com/ they have taken UAWR on as a project to help with fundraising and they are holding a yard sale in the Chino Hills area and have yard sale collections down in the Norco and Chino Hills area for those who would like to help out UAWR. This group has also taken up collections at their rides and have done a wonderful job in supporting UAWR. I wanted to give SPECIAL THANK YOU to Ed who won the Cowboy Poker (I think that is what they called it) he donated a little over half his winnings to UAWR and I thank you soooo much for your kindness and generosity!!!

Everyone try to stay dry in this wonderful winter weather.... hey winter is baaaaaack

Did you know?

So as I sit here thinking over the idea of we need MORE hay yet again tomorrow I think wow Did you all know that for the Month of January that UAWR spent around an average of $504 per WEEK, Just to feed the horses here. It is amazing how quickly things add up around here for costs.

Luckily we had all our wormers donated this month for worming but imagine just that along runs around $120

To trim horses feet we are looking at $525 per month to do half of our horses and $525 for the other half the next month.

So did anyone Make a Difference this wonderful Monday?

Beautiful Sunday Afternoon & A GOOD Ride!

I am here to tell everyone who was here in Southern California this weekend if you missed a good ride on your horse you missed out on a wonderful day!!! It was a beautiful day today here in Phelan the The Land of Champagne Climate. So I got the opportunity to go for a very nice ride today, it was not nearly as long of a ride as I had hoped but all in all it was great and very calming..... I have a new and refreshed state of mind and in a much better mood its amazing what a bit of fresh air, good conversation, and a bit of horse hair can do for the mind.... To those of you who have been around the past week or so I am sure you are all very happy to hear that I am in a better mood now. :) Anyway, someone else told me on Saturday I needed to find my JOY again and wellllllll I am thinking I might have just done so on the back of a horse is where my JOY begins and in the Lord is where it really is!!! THANK YOU Lord for the beautiful day and for the opportunity to ride today!!

Sooo for those of you out there stressing over work, home, relationships, etc get out there and visit with your furry horse friend...for those of you who don't have one I can accomidate that too... you can adopt one or just come out and play with one of ours there are many of them that would love some one on one time with you.

So tomorrow is MAKE A DIFFERENCE MONDAY so don't forget to get out there an Bless someone... as I talked about before and it came up in life today... You must BE the blessing in order to receive a Blessing.... Sooooooo go.....be gone......go out amongst the world and BLESS someone not cause you have to, make it come from your heart and do it because your heart wants to and you know what if we all did this the world sure would be a better place....

I would LOVE to hear from all of you now and even in the future about your Blessings you showered on others and how it all worked out. So share with all of us and Inspire others to go Bless the world too. It starts with make a difference Monday and continues on to bigger and better things from there.

Are we THAT lazy?

So I missed a few days of writing and gonna make up for it today. I was invited to the Eqine Affaire yesterday and went with a friend to enjoy the experiance. The one thing that REALLY caught my eye was a Manure Fork that is battery operated. You say hmmmm why does a manure for need batteries..??? Welllll let me tell you about it, it is call the Shake'n Fork (an I want a portion of all sale I make from this lol ) So this fork from what I can see you scoop the manure and the shaving or whatever bedding you have and push the button and it shakes the fork for you so you don't have to and it has VARIABLE speeds lol lol . The selling point is that it make manual agitation unnecessary which then results in less fatigue, cleaner stalls, and a smaller amount of manure and bedding to dispose of. Hmmmmm I don't get the small amount of manure uhhhh shouldn't you be picking up the same amount? Maybe less bedding being wasted but again if you would just shake the rake there you have that solved.... Maybe this is why america is the most obese we have ever been? You can get all of this for the low low fair price of $169.99 and I can't get anyone to help sponor a rescue horse but they can get someone to buy a maure fork.

So if you are one of the people out there who DID fork (ha ha) over your $169.99 and buy one of these wonderful battery operated forks I am sorry and I do not mean to be rude but to me that is just going way too far... just when I thought I had seen everything.

If you want to purchase or see more about the wonderful Shake'n Fork you can go to their website at http://www.shakenfork.com/ They have a You Tube video of how it works and everything. Or you can run down to the Equine Affair today and see it in person yourself at booth 847.

I say use a regular fork its good exercise and your horse will appreciate it when you climb up on his/her back for another ride.... So EVERYONE get out there and clean your stalls the old fashion way and then give your horse a big hug & kiss then saddle him up for a nice ride on a beautiful Sunday afternoon!!!!!