Dry Creek Ranch a reality in site

Well it looks like Dry Creek Ranch is coming to be a reality.  We've called it that since we moved...tongue in cheek as all we raised were cats but if you have been reading our blog you know I have been trying to learn all about horses from my friend and neighbor Tracy Cotton. For five years we have been friends and Tracy has had her horses and I have dreamed of riding and Tracy has been wanting a riding partner neither of us thinking of asking the other. I didn't want to be pushy by asking if I could ride just hoping she would offer and she didn't thin I wanted to because I never asked.  Quite by accident we got that cleared up and I found she was dying for riding company and that's why she hardly ever rode. So a deeper friendship has blossomed over this. We not only now shop, walk, talk we are riding partners. Tracy teaching me all she has learned and me trying to learn it.

I used to ride as a child spending summers with my Aunt and Uncle and cousins who owned Rosehurst Stables in Middlebury, CT. Riding English and learning enough to stay on but not enough about horses themselves. So that is why I say I'm doing horsemanship 101. I do not want to be one of those people that has a horse just to have one. I want to understand them so that they will get the correct treatment and that we bond with a complete understanding of each others needs.  So on to the next step.





DRY CREEK RANCH - soon to be home of  Lady and possibly Cherokee .  Yesterday we met with Sue of the J BarRanch who raises Paints but also has some Sorrels etc. Her stud Jay is a beautiful mannered paint b/w who only puts out Paints it seems. Anyway Sue has a horse she rescued from a man nearby a Sorrel mare around 9 years old needing a home with love. The man skimped on feeding her till he gave her up since he lost his job and had to make a choice between family or horse. She was a little undernourished...not mistreated. Sue has had her for a while now and she is looking 100% better but still needs to fill out a bit. Tracy went along with us to see her and looked her over and she is sound. She's only 14 hands but with real sturdy legs. Once we decide I will start going there to ride and bond with her. She will have to stay with Sue till we can get a fence and shelter up.  As we talked we started talking about the Paints She showed us Cherokee who so far she hasn't decided on selling YET. She's a beauty too and also two months pregnant. During our talk she told me if I wanted when Lady was back in form she would breed her to Jay for free IF i wanted to have the baby experience and a true bonding. So that's what we have to think on. If we got both I wouldn't breed Lady...tee hee at least I don't think so but hey you never know. Who knows we might even end up with a stud colt.  I really don't think we would go that line but we're joking about it knowing that we could never sell one of the babies either.


Any way last night I lay awake wondering just what I will call our Lady and right now I think it's Lady Irish since she has the red in her. She looks like a mini John Wayne horse as he was partial to the three white leg Sorrels with the large blazed face.

If all goes well we will take Lady into the family in a few months and work on another for Jim hopefully Cherokee.

Pictures will follow as camera is still in the car. :)