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Took Peake up to the stud today.
Jun. 5th, 2019 07:56 pmTrys and I took Peake up to the stud today. This is the same stud we bred Nicknick to during Very Depressing Baby Adventure (check the tag Patapsco if you are just now joining us, but be warned the momma horse dies and the baby horse dies and the whole thing was just depressing as hell) of 2018. Because, well, we still have a breeding and I do want a fucking baby horse. Peake is the only purebred of breeding age on the farm. Everything else young-ish is crossbred ponies like Genie the project pony. And while she's cute as a bug, I don't honestly need another 13hh pony.
Peake is Nick's first daughter. She's 11, which is not terribly old or anything, and she's well enough made and I think she'll have a fine baby. Or maybe she'll die and the baby horse will die and it'll be depressing as hell all over again. One never knows. I am certainly hoping that it is not my turn to play EVERYTHING DIES IN A HEART-RENDING AND EXPENSIVE WAY again.
Anyway, probably Peake won't die until about May of next year, possibly June or July. So this is not a quick game. Settle in to the long haul, for this ride.
I also talked to the guy up there about buying a horse. Because, well, if I BUY a suitable young horse (2-3-4 filly) then we will have a fine Peake baby and it will be wonderful and perfect because life works like that. He's met Nick and he's seen pictures of Patapsco whom I adored and even yet still cry about and he has the stud we like. He has some idea of what we're going for on the horse front. And he has a lot of fingers in a lot of Arab horse pies. So I told him I had about 5K to spend and I wanted a young thing of the right kind of thing. He said he'd look.
In other horse news, we got the hay made out of the near field (so I can ride on it again) and I am sending in an entry for our first dressage effort of the season, which is on June 14. I am 100% sending it in tomorrow. We may suck like an Electrolux but we are going to go out and do our stupid lame-ass dressage.
In non-horse news, I got The Sedge Book and it's amazing. We're gonna learn about some fucking sedges you betcha.
Peake is Nick's first daughter. She's 11, which is not terribly old or anything, and she's well enough made and I think she'll have a fine baby. Or maybe she'll die and the baby horse will die and it'll be depressing as hell all over again. One never knows. I am certainly hoping that it is not my turn to play EVERYTHING DIES IN A HEART-RENDING AND EXPENSIVE WAY again.
Anyway, probably Peake won't die until about May of next year, possibly June or July. So this is not a quick game. Settle in to the long haul, for this ride.
I also talked to the guy up there about buying a horse. Because, well, if I BUY a suitable young horse (2-3-4 filly) then we will have a fine Peake baby and it will be wonderful and perfect because life works like that. He's met Nick and he's seen pictures of Patapsco whom I adored and even yet still cry about and he has the stud we like. He has some idea of what we're going for on the horse front. And he has a lot of fingers in a lot of Arab horse pies. So I told him I had about 5K to spend and I wanted a young thing of the right kind of thing. He said he'd look.
In other horse news, we got the hay made out of the near field (so I can ride on it again) and I am sending in an entry for our first dressage effort of the season, which is on June 14. I am 100% sending it in tomorrow. We may suck like an Electrolux but we are going to go out and do our stupid lame-ass dressage.
In non-horse news, I got The Sedge Book and it's amazing. We're gonna learn about some fucking sedges you betcha.
