Past Updates
Old Farm Updates
6/3/02: Well, we've OFFICIALLY opened! The horses and everything else have been moved to our new farm, all the buildings have been put up, and we're officially settled in.
6/6: Unable to resist awful...awful temptation (because I'm just a big old softie who can't bear to let any animals disappear even if they were never hers), I bought four of Jo's old pets: Tigger, Smoky, Tempus Fugit and Snowstorm. Fugit and Snowstorm are beautiful dogs, Tigger's a mouser, and then I couldn't leave Smoky all alone. And the first third of a DOZEN new foals arrive in 2 weeks.
6/18: Four adorable little foals born! Cute-cute-cute! And also the first foals ever born on our ranch. Patch, Flame, Onyx and Kachina, 3 colts and 1 filly, full information on the member page.
6/25: More adorable foals born! Also a filly and 3 colts, we have Starfire, Dreamers' Requiem, Sovereign Spirit and Little Crow. Also added the list of Thunderwith's descendants.
7/2: The last of the little foals were born. We have Foxfire (colt), Twilight Gold (filly), Copper Storm (a surprising chestnut colt), and...TWINS! Celestial Heaven gave birth to twin Friesian foals, a colt and a filly, Night Orison and Heaven's Breath! Orison was rejected, sadly, but is being raised by Briar Rose
7/9: Flame Warrior has been sold to Amber Essence for $1000, and Foxfire sold to Jo
7/15-7/25: Firstly, Clipped Gold passed away, the first we've lost on this farm. Next, another small rush of buying, because we always manage to replace what we sell or lose to old age. From AE we purchased a Mustang mare, Night Song, and from qh_person, a QH stallion, Continental Cad, and a Mustang colt, Echoes of the Sea.
8/3: I added the "pasture layout" and "photos from the trail" pages, and touched up the banner.
8/5: I added the "barn layout" page while learning some new HTML skills for the first time.
8/6: Added the tack room (link on "Barn Layout") and Thunderwith's Memorial. Also updated "Thunderwith's Descendents."
8/27: The farm lost our old Airedale Ragamuffin, along with our two best herding collies, Dollar and Lira, AND our old donkey Little Birdie.
10/17: Briar Rose's last foal was born, a pretty little filly named Sleeping Beauty.
10/23/02: We actually sold a horse! Sienna Storm went home with the president, who finally gets to call her Kiia.
10/26: Night Song's plain bay colt, Dakota Song, was born today, while "the old gray (Paint) mare" Steel Magnolia went home with Jo.
11/1: Recently lost two beloved old mares to age, Black Fire and Celestial Heaven.
12/20: The Coltriever pups that Shep sired were born! We brought home a female and 3 males: Maggie Mae, Blaze, Bingo, and Skipper.
12/24: To make room for all those new puppies, Tempus Fugit and Snowstorm were returned to Jo.
12/26: A pregnant kitty came to the house...so I adopted her, along with the 6 adorable kittens she delivered soon afterwards. See them here . Now we're at 20 cats! (granted, 6 of them are newborns and 7 of them are 19 years and older...)
1/9/03: Two MORE horses were bought from qh_person, a black overo Mustang stud name Thunderstorm, and his yearling gray tobiano son, Rainstorm.
1/15: Ghostly Echo, white Mustang filly, was taken in from DP.
2/7: A huge blizzard hit the town, and were caught slightly by surprise. Wanderbird twisted her ankle hurrying into the barn, and poor Justa Catt suffered a harsh HYPP attack and died. As if this weren't enough, poor Bingo was left outside in the storm, and was not only shaking with cold, he came back dragging a trap on his crushed forepaw.
2/9: Sad mortality testing time...my sweet old mare, Briar Rose, died, as did 3 of the kitties: Smoky, Tigra, and teddy-bear Maneki.
2/22: Little Frosty had a palomino w/ blanket filly named Frosted Dawn, and Last Princess had a bay tobiano filly named Warrior Princess, a/k/a "Xena." I also finally gave up and added 10 more stalls.
3/27: Happy Birthday...and lots of news. We bought a bay/blanket filly named War Aria from Jo and gained 2 Mustang stallions, BotM and B-day, Apache and Shaman's Quest. We sold Strawberry Fields to Heather and Flame Bar Mack to Jo. Passed away forever are Thunder Warrior and Clipped Image, as well as our pets Yen, Kitty, and Tigger. Finally, births of a chestnut Tennessee Walker colt, Unclipped Perfection's son, and Little Frosty dropped a surprise -- TWIN filies! That's our second pair; Rolling Thunder Ranch must be lucky.
4/12: Wanekia was sold to AE.
5/30/03: In the last 2 months, we have had 3 foals born -- Wild Winged Dove, Red Hawk, and today, Indigo Gold's smoky black filly. We also gave Continental Cad away and lost Haunt, November and September to old age.
7/24: We bought 25 y/o Golden Hope to keep her in the club, since she's the mother of Indigo Gold.
7/25: Rainstorm and Apache were exported and sold to Abby for respectively $2000 and $6000.
8/12: Last Princess bore Naabesim, smoky black tobiano colt, and Phantom Silver has Golden Sovereign, palomino colt.
8/24: Celestial Arrow and Blackwood Thorn have been exported and sold for $3000 and $1500.
9/9: The last of our sale horses have been sold -- Chief Joseph, Sleeping Beauty, and Little Redbird -- for a total of $14,000 (due to exporting, under $1000 profit on each horse).
8/27: Spirit Song dropped Evening Song, a Friesian filly.
8/26: Galahad's Tiarna, Little Bluebell, and Skipper have been exported and sold for $3000, $4500, and $50.
9/11: This week has been exceptionally sad, as we have lost a number of our finest horses due to old age: Dark Side of the Moon, Deep Dreamer, Mountain Rainmaker, Crowning Thunder, Little Frosty, Little Devil (donkey), Jezebel (donkey), and a cat, Aramaic.
9/16: Our surprise foals were born today...Anishinaabe, Yaninka, Frozen Fire, Windchaser, and Ahmik.
10/18: Unclipped Perfection, Last Princess, and Franc passed away due to old age. Franc made the record books at 30 years -- he's a dog!
10/22: Once again, personal pages have been updated and all horses have their own page again. The Memorial has been updated as well.
11/14: Bought THREE new horses: Panderta Hombre, his mother Tambien Malo, and Isis.
11/23: Lost Rosebud Warrior to old age.
2/6/04: Thunder Lady and Fire of Courage, two lovely palominos, were lost to old age. Also gone are the old mule, Auster, our herding dog Shep, and the last cats from DAA: Blackbear, Casper, and Caprona.
3/13: Three beautiful mares lost...Golden Hope, Silver Thunder, and King's Spanish Lady, ages 31, 31, and 30.
3/20: FINALLY, at long last, four of our mares are nursing new colts. Jacqui O has a black Thoroughbred colt (Midnight Fox), Heaven's Breath a bay Andalusian (Romero), Tambien Malo a chestnut Thoroughbred (Forest Fox), and Ghostly Echo is nursing a frail (born outside in the snow), but beautiful, blue-eyed buckskin tobiano Mustang, son of Shaman's Quest and Final Thunder, Thunder Quest.
3/26: The Memorial page has been updated and is current; also, all horses except the newborns have pictures and pages in the Barn.
4/12: ALL horses have a page, and Wanderbird dropped her palomino MFT filly, Autumn Wanderer!
5/20: Three beautiful pinto foals by Beyond the Sea delivered: Cherokee Fire, Dance Across the Sea, and Harlem Nocturne.
5/30: Lost two much-loved horses to old age...Das Marchen at 33 and Spooky Fox at 32.
6/15: Since the last update, Evening Song has been sold and
Shaman's Chance bought.
6/30: Four new foals born...three more pintos and a TB: Where Never Eagle Flew, Mystery of the Sea, Firefly, and Lucky Summer.
7/6: We lost two beloved mares, Starbuck and Final Thunder (the last Thunderwith foal), to old age (31 and 33). Pandereta Hombre went home with Hawley; Ol Blue Eyes, Autumn Wanderer, and War Aria went to the Humane Society. On the bright side, we imported a handsome pintabian colt, Cattail Moon.
7/30: Four pretty new foals, all Mustangs! Dargason Fantasy, Snowfallen Quest, Prairie Flower, and Dancer By Day.
8/4: LOTS of updating; ALL horses now have picture and page, including our new pair of dapple gray Arabians, Rafik Khassim and Freedom's Light! The Memorial page is also current again.
8/29: On a horrible Sunday, a wild fire destroyed much of our barn and also trapped and killed three of our stallions: Red Hawk, Starset Onyx, and our best show horse, Winter Storm Warrior.
9/16: We lost Thunder Fire and Eagle Spirit to old age, but gained 2 colts and 2 fillies: Cheyenne Wolf, Seeker of Visions, Nightbird, and Reverence.
10/21: We lost Clouds of Fire and Pale Moonbeam to old age (32 and 31), and sold Shaman's Chance out of club. The pasture pages have been updated, and the barn page updated as far as removing deceased horses and adding the names of young ones.
1/12/05: Lost Fantasia to old age (30)