This message is from: "Elizabeth Ross-McKee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
HI! My name is Elizabeth and I live in Deer Lodge, Montana USA with my husband (a non horse person), our housedog Carlos, feral cat SawMill Sally and our Orange Boy Cat that we call Sigurd. We welcomed our newest member a 4 year old rescue horse (percheron/tbred?/quarterhorse? cross) Trinity to the menagerie just recently, in fact she arrives on September 1. I found HER when I was scouring the countryside for an older, sensible mare preferably a Fjord, she needed a home so she'll be a good pasture mate for the Fjord that I SHALL find in the next year! I met a lady from Cove, OR over a year ago through eBay. She raises Fjords and has convinced me that this sweet eyed little draft is the only horse for me. So I have been really wanting a horse again after 25 years of living in town without them. I have been scared to my teeth to start riding again as I have a spinal injury and some other health problems that have housebound me for years. Well it's now or never and everyone says a draft or draft cross makes a good companion as well as a darn sturdy riding horse. So ... ok. It's back to being the 'horses' mamma' again after all these years. Finally, at age OMG 50, my husband and I bought a little farmhouse that we call Spruce Acre as Green Acres was taken... get my drift LOL!!.. it's old and cute and not at all pretentious or fancy. The BEST part is the old tin house we are rennovating into a heated one horse barn/hay/tack storage, the fenced paddock and the large double lot that has a NICE grassed in horse lot and we will fence the rest for another smallish pasture. We just have to find a decent large grazing/running pasture close by for the rescue horse and eventually her pasture mate Fjord I intend to acquire this next year. So there you have it. I"m no spring chicken, was raised chasing cows, rodeo and later I even evented for a while. I wish i remembered dressage as it will come so much in handy training this new horse so I will probably be back in 'school' soon with the new mare. I am a jewelry designer, eBay powerseller and house gnome. Kids are grown and live in CA and GA - a software designer and an attorney. My husband operates kilns at the nearby sawmill. I am starting my MA in January. We're pretty quiet folks these days so I am looking to spice up our lives with some equines of the draft size. I am always open for a chat, advice on draft horse ownership, where on EARTH to find a saddle broke fjord that is not a baby (i'd take a retired skidder horse...) and any equine info for Montana. I am learning through the state website that horses here are bug candy in a HUGE way. I've seen horrible parasites in our neighbor's animals and they take pretty good care of them too! We are at the foot of the Pintler mountains on one side of the valley adn the Divide range on the other. Sub alpine semi desert area. Yup hotter than the Hinges of Hades in the summer and Artic winters. See why I'm after a Fjord? cold weather horses suffer far less here than their hot blooded cousins! What I need...... a used fencer a wide tree saddle. is there such a thing as a hybrid English/Australian style and Western cross?LOL!! The rescue horse is only 15h1" but is only 4... and she's gonna be BROAD when filled out in a few years. assorted tack - it's been 25 years since I had horses! the only thing i have is a saddle in need of some TLC and LOTS of saddle soaping (a recent gift), my 4-H Spurs from 1969 (no kidding) and some large snaffles. a horse trailer! (next year's budget thank you very much until then it's the neighbor's) and in a year..... a sensible older Fjord mare that needs a good home and would like to be a companion and go for a few rides a week and might even be asked to pull a sleigh once in a while in the winter and a little cart up into the mountains so we can take the house dog out for a picnic unless teh bears continue to be an issue in which case we'll just stay in the valley and trot down the old stage coach roads! Well off to work! Elizabeth ------------------------------------------------------------------------ See what youre getting into before you go there The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw
