Over the past week our Marsh Tacky mare, Hickory Wind, arrived. The next day our new Baca stallion, El Rosio, arrived. Yesterday we were joined by a wonderful lady who has driven up from South Carolina after seeing the segment about us on the TV show "Wild About Animals". She will be spending the weekend and riding with us. Yesterday was the first day of a new program that we are having in association with the Veterans Hospital for soldiers who came home with wounds that could not be seen by the eye. It was a wonderful success.
Today we will start the first session of the fall segment of Youth Equine Challenge a program in conjunction with Together We Can that introduces teens to the healing and teaching power of natural horsemanship. This afternoon we will be joined by a lady who is coming up from North Carolina to ride with us and see how we do things. A reporter from a regional news paper will be spending the day with us.
A lot of people put a lot of work into what we do. We are going to do it better and we are going to do it bigger.
This was the most active weekend in awhile..and the hottest, but we got-r-done! The Vets were great, Seeing the interest and happiness in their faces was so very rewarding, Thanks, Kay! Awesome job! The teens were awesome, I love to watch them begin their path with horses, seeing their interest and knowledge develop and grow is, in my not very humble opinion better than having a horse win the Preakness. On the surface of things, We preserve Banker horses, Teach Natural horsemanship, riding, natural horse care, and hoof maintenance...A much subtler and ultimately farther reaching effect is that many of these young horsemen will go on into their adult lives, stronger people, and well grounded natural horsemen..They will go out into the world and keep horses the way horses ought to be kept, teach them as natural horsemen from Xenophon on down have taught and trained..This will be better for people, and sooo much better for horses. I doubt we could get away with a show called Swamp People...Swamp Horses maybe..At any rate it is a great time to be in the swamp! I really did not expect that it could really be better..but we are getting better and stronger...quickly. Ride 'em pretty! -Lloyd
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