Santa Comes to the Rescue

Well many things have happen over the past week that I wanted to share with everyone.

First I had 2 families step up to the plate and offered to each foster 2 horses each!! WOOOOW can you imagine my excitement when I found out that 4 of the 20 horses would have a foster home to care for them while I was recovering. That is a HUGE help to me and has helped to not only lighten the load around the ranch but it also serves as a winning situation for the horses too as they will be provided with more attention then possible for me to give them at this time. Thank you to The Paylen and Williams Families!

Then I send a HUGE thank you to Cecelia who sent me the most wonderful Christmas Card with a very touching letter and a very generous donation to help with caring for the horses also during my recovery.

Thheeeennnnnnnn Thank you to Kathy who first stepped up to the plate and made a wonderful and generous donation to the feed store for UAWR to use in order to help purchase feed needed for the horses. Kathy also writes for the daily press and wrote a beautiful and very touching article about the needs of UAWR. One of the things Kathy mentioned in her article was the need for a golf cart or motorized vehicle and Wooooo Hoooooooo I got the call!!!!!!

I got a call from a wonderful family in Apple Valley who is going to donate a golf cart to UAWR so that I can get around the ranch and over see the volunteers and ensure all the needs of the horses are being taken care of. This will also give me the ability to do some of the chores needed around the ranch myself such as watering horses and small tasks such as that. I am ever Soooooo grateful to Kathy for putting the word out and to the family who has donated to cart for UAWR what a HUGE blessing THANK YOU!!

I also received another wonderful donation from Nicol who is a previous adopter of UAWR and a wonderful woman who has been a great help to UAWR over the years and again has come thru to help out!!

Thank you to everyone I appreciate the help so much and hope that with all of us together we can continue on with UAWR even thru this tough time of a horrible economy along with my injuries, if we all work together I KNOW we can make this continue to happen!!!

Courtney Hobson

My Christmas Wish

Feeling Frustrated today.....ok I have just realized that it just really is not possible for things to work without at least my over seeing them on a daily basis...... I need a side by side type vehicle...such as Polaris ranger, or Yamaha Rhino, or Honda ????

Does anyone have any connections with a dealer that might be interested in donating one for Christmas to UAWR. That sure would help me to get around and make sure things are getting accomplished with the horses.

Any thoughts or ideas would be great!!! Thank you everyone!!

The Accident

As most of you know I was involved in an accident last week. It seems as if this accident is going to be changing alot of things at UAWR as It is predicted that I will be needing several surgeries and many months of rehab therefore I will not be walking for 6 months to a year.

I am going to try and make a bit more time to sit down and blog with all of you a bit more now in order to help get the word out about the needs of UAWR at the current time.

If you are interested in helping out with feeding and/or watering once or more per week please let me know as I am in need of feeding and watering helpers.