Growing the Family/Herd

One of our blessings here is that we have been growing our family and acquired what we think of as a 4th son.  He is already grown, which is sort of a bonus, we didn’t actually have to go through child-birth, braces or college tuition.  Number Four came by on Saturday to see if we needed any help at the farm.  He’d read about all the digging I’d been doing and was concerned that we needed assistance.  I think he might have also been double checking that we hadn’t broken down and rented another backhoe for him to play with, I mean work with.  Number Four took one look at all the trenches that I’d dug and said, “Wow!  Your pictures do not do justice to the work you did”.  Yep, I love this guy.

(Number Four, The Bride, My Loving Spouse

The Teen, Number One Son, Me)

It might have started with My Loving Spouse buying another saddle.  Well, he’d gotten a great deal on it, but still we only had one horse that can be ridden.  Dixie is too young and she gets really upset when the rest of her herd (Dolly) goes off down the trail without her.  Maybe we are just herd people too. We don’t really like going off down the trail without some of our herd/family coming along as well, so only one horse to ride is not that fun.  So, when we were offered a great ‘care-lease’, we jumped at the opportunity to grow the horse herd, besides we already had the saddle!

Mr. Beau-jangles or Beau is a 19 year old gelding that needed a good home.  He has been a consistent 4-H winner (under the name Bones) and is easy to handle, great with kids and loves a trail ride, a perfect match!  We are so delighted to have two horses to ride and take off down the trail together!  When we told Number Four that we were getting another horse, he said “I thought you said, ‘no more animals’.”

Yes… well I did say that, but it was a long time ago and besides, what I really meant was no more cats!