Kitties!

Well - Reilly said that cat wanted to come and and I TOLD him she was pregnant. I I did take her in and she has had 4 of the cutest kittens in the closet ever. I hope he isn't too mad once I tell him, but at least now they will not be feral kitties and I will get that cat fixed. So now I just need to find some homes for the adorable little sweeties.

I'll get some photos later but it seems that there are 4 black and 2 grey kitties and they are completely solid in color - either all black or all grey. They are so tiny right now they can't even open their eyes. They are sort of flopping around in the closet. It makes me really happy they got to be born in a nice comfy closet and not a dirty tack room - where someone might get them. Now I can take care of them and make sure they are safe!!!

Want a Kitten???? :-)

In other news I had some really great converstations with people yesterday. I got a nice congratulations note from Karen Henwood who was commenting on how much she likes a particular horse in Special's pedigree. Here is an excerpt of what she said with the personal stuff taken out:

FROM KAREN HENWOOD

Carol,

Yes, I am really happy for you. I don't know the horse personally but did see photos of his Mom years ago.
*Ibn Hafiz is in her pedigree and my first s.e. mare was Bint Ibn Hafiza. So that blood means a lot to me. I respect it very much. My Bint Farid is the only dtr. that Bint Ibn Hafiza had. Fortunately, by Anaza El Farid. I am looking forward to seeing photos of your boy asap.

Falling in love with and having a stallion that you own is a very special thing. They can teach us so much. "

Karen is so right - I'm learning alot about the communication between a horse and a human. Stallions do communicate more it seems.

My work life was challenging yesterday but I got everything accomplished so that was good. I'll write more in my "personal" blog later today.

I brought all the girls home from the clinic and they were so happy to be home. Maaria looks amazing trotting around that pasture - Mohammad will be so thrilled when she arrives in Saudi Arabia -she is unique and exotic and the best trotting SE I've seen in many years. Its hard to sell your very best horses, but on the other hand it helps in building the future of the breed and of our new farm whenever we find a place!!!

On the "finding a place" front - we are just going to take our time with this. ITs a good time to buy, but a bad time to sell right now. So I think we will just keep looking. And also evaluate how Reilly job goes. But I sure am not going to move to Houston and then have Reilly's job not work out. So I'm just going to try and get closer to Houston eventually.

I bought all this new tack from Schneiders for Special and it should arrive in a few days. I got him a nice Victor leather surcingle, a lunging caveson, long lines, and so on. I just can't wait for them to arrive!!!

More later!

Carol