"Peaches"

SS SHADOW LAKE
2001 bay mare
click here for her pedigree

We made a trade today...we got a horse for a box of peaches! Pretty good deal eh?
We're up to six and a half now! I need a job! Rest assured we are not planning on getting any more for a while! This broodmare was rescued this past spring so she isn't pregnant right now. She has some pretty awesome lines! Dash for Cash is on her papers!!! We are planning on breeding her to Cowboy next spring.

Another one...FFQ POCOS FOXY FLASH

Since it appears that I do not have enough horses Ma and I went down to Utah on Friday and picked up another one, FFQ POCOS FOXY FLASH aka. 'Roxy'! So now I own 5. That is a lot! This mare is just a broodmare and is pregnant to foal next may. She is super sweet and nice...but really, 5 horses! Crazy!

here is her pedigree, she is pretty well bred!
FFQ POCOS FOXY FLASH M, QUARTER HORSE, 2003

(CLOSE)

FFQ POCOS FOXY FLASH 2003 QUARTER HORSE

IMA SKIPPIN CHEX 2000 QUARTER HORSE

WARRIOR COMMAND buck 1981 QUARTER HORSE

FRITZ COMMAND* buck 1967 QUARTER HORSE

KING FRITZ* b 1956

POWER COMMAND*

sor 1949

POCO JANE*

b 1948

SUTHERLANDS MISS buck 1951

JODIE THE TUFF

b 1945

TANGERINE W*

blk smky 1944

SUGAR CHICKS b 1972 QUARTER HORSE

TRIPLE CHICK* br 15.1 1955

THREE BARS*

ch 15.3 1940

CHICADO V*

br 1950

SUGAR MAYDAY sor 1958

LEO*

sor 14.2 1940

FRONTERA SUGAR

pal 1943

MISS CLASSY CACHE 1989 QUARTER HORSE

SKIPA STAR LAD* sor 1978 QUARTER HORSE

SKIPA STAR* sor 1973

SKIPPERS LAD*

sor 15.2H 1952

PATS DUSTY STAR*

pal 1964

SKIPS JOYCE* pal ? 1966

SKIP SCHOOL*

pal 1957

LITTLE PEARL ANN

sor 1960

TWISTIE CUE sor 1959 QUARTER HORSE

CUELLAR* ch 1942

KING*

b 14.3 1932

OLD SILVER

b 1923

TALLULA TWIST ch 1953

HARD TWIST*

ch 1942

BABE LUX

sor 1934

POCOS FANCY FLASH buck 1988 QUARTER HORSE

LEO SAN BUENO buck 1981 QUARTER HORSE

POCO SAN BUENO* buck 1965 QUARTER HORSE

LEO SAN* sor 1949

LEO*

sor 14.2 1940

SAN SUE DARKS*

sor 1945

POCO FAY buck 1955

POCO BUENO*

br 15.0 1944

PRETTY ROSALIE*

buck 15.0 1943

CLASSY BIEN ch 1962 QUARTER HORSE

POCO BIEN dun 15.0 1958

POCO BUENO*

br 15.0 1944

LADY PEP-UP X

dun 1949

TYPY TAMI ch 1957

SOPPY*

sor 15.1 1946

NICKITA

ch 1949

JILL BLANTON buck 1969 QUARTER HORSE

STERLS LUCKY dun 1960 QUARTER HORSE

LUCKY BLANTON* ch 1936

MARK

sor 1925

GOLD NUGGET 3

dun 1941

HEART 87 dun 1955

HOLLYWOODS PARKE

dun 1950

HEART 42

1952

POCO PEGGY 1956 QUARTER HORSE

POCO DELL* b 1950

POCO BUENO*

br 15.0 1944

SHADY DELL

dun 1946

BONNIE BENEAR b 1948

DUSTY BENEAR

b 1942

BONNIE CLEGG

br 1945

* - Photo Available

If you go to this link you can see the pics of the horses with astericks by their names http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/ffq+pocos+foxy+flash


This is the pedigree of the stud that she is bred to, son of the great DRIFTS CHIP!!! This dude's brother was champion heeler a couple of years ago!!

DRIFT SUNNY FOUR H, QUARTER HORSE, 2000

Color: buck (CLOSE)

DRIFT SUNNY FOUR buck 2000 QUARTER HORSE

DRIFTS CHIP* blk 1979 QUARTER HORSE

DOUBLE DRIFT blk 1956 QUARTER HORSE

GRAY CHIP gr 1953 QUARTER HORSE

DRIFTWOOD* b 15 1932

MILLER BOY

b 1926

THE COMER MARE

ch 1920

SUGAR TIT gr 1942

KELLY

1938

LOUSE SCHUYLER

b 1936

ROSE WOOD b 1954 QUARTER HORSE

DRIFTWOOD* b 15 1932

MILLER BOY

b 1926

THE COMER MARE

ch 1920

MISS HONDO b 1942

HANK I

1936

NELLIE 21

~1935

DIAMOND ISLE ro 1959 QUARTER HORSE

DIAMOND CHIP b 1948 QUARTER HORSE

SILVER KING* b 1937

OLD SORREL*

ch 1915

CLEGG MARE NO 3

b 1925

SCAR FACE S br 1935

BAILEY

sor 1913

MARE BY MIDNIGHT

gr 1926

DUSTY BABE ro 1946 QUARTER HORSE

DUSTY HANCOCK* bl ro 15H 1940

ROAN HANCOCK*

b ro 1935

TRIANGLE LADY 12

buck 1939

8 0 3 BABE 1939

RED JOE OF ARIZONA*

ch 1932

DREAMY 9

BELLES SANDY SUNNY buck 1990 QUARTER HORSE

BAR MONEY SUNNY* buck 15.0 1982 QUARTER HORSE

BAR MONEY* ch 1960 QUARTER HORSE

THREE BARS* ch 15.3 1940

PERCENTAGE

ch 1923

MYRTLE DEE*

blk/br 1923

MISS RUBY b 1946

LOS MOLINOS

b 1932

TEX

b 1939

SUNECE BAILEY buck 1962 QUARTER HORSE

GOLD KING BAILEY pal 1945

HANK H*

ch 1942

BEAUTY BAILEY

pal 1932

MACS SUNNYDAY b 1951

STAR BRIGHT MOORE*

b 1945

NILA B

br 1939

DOCS BONNIE BELLE b 1984 QUARTER HORSE

DOCS TIVIO JACK sor 1981 QUARTER HORSE

DOCS JACK SPRAT* sor 14.3 1972

DOC BAR*

ch 1956

PURA FINA

b 1965

ME LICKA STAR sor 1968

STRING FLAG

buck 1963

DANNY DOLL

sor 1959

MONTE BONNIE b 1980 QUARTER HORSE

MONTE JIBO sor 1967

BUENO ROBIN

b 1961

MON SUE STAR

br 1961

SWEET BONNIE GAL buck 1973

HANCOCKS DUDE*

br 1960

HOPETT

pal 1964

* - Photo Available

 if you go to this link you can see his progeny and the pics of the horses with astericks by their names http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/drift+sunny+four

Ugly Baby

Not loving her looks right now! Good thing she is so sweet and loving and loves people so much!

We've made a lot of improvement eh? This is even from a week ago, and looks even better than that!

I love her little nose, I don't know why, it's just cute...and soft...very soft...

Mama for sale...

who knows what will happen...

Music Box Dancer by Frank Mills

I have to play this at a funeral tomorrow, it is a really pretty but hard to play!

Stitches!

This is what it looked like when I rewrapped it this morning, you can sort of see where the stitches pulled loose.

The effects of barbed wire...don't click if you are sqeamish!!!

Grandpa's Quilt

This spring I got to make this BEAUTIFUL quilt for my dear great grandpa Leonard.

I have wanted to make this quilt for a long time and this was the perfect excuse!

The idea came from a quilt a a dear friend's house.

I have stared at that quilt for a LONG time and finally drew up the blocks on graph paper.

Now, i finally got to make it!

I want to make one for me now!

Sorry, the rest of the pictures won't load :( I was going to show you how to make the blocks.

Maybe later!

Beautiful.

Thursday I witnessed one of the most beautiful and sacred things on earth. Birth.

Meet, out filly. Born on June 7, 2012 at about 10:30 am

Sorry if you are sqeamish about this picture, this is one of the only ones I could get to load! It's just the bag hanging out after her water broke, if you look really really hard you might be able to see the tips of the baby's feet.

It all happened soooo fast!

Bailey busted the gate to get out of her pen at about 6:45 am on thursday, I put her back in at about 7 and then fed her, then after we ate breakfast I put her into the pasture at about 9 am and I went to check on her at about 9:45 and I saw that she was starting to have contractions but I figured we still had several hours of first stage labor to wait through, so I ran and got Ma and when I came back her water had just broke! I called Cathy and she came over to watch

After she had been in active labor for about 25 minutes we could still only see her(the filly's) front feet so we called her(Cathy's) husband Wendell to bring his calf pullers to pull the thing out and in the mean time Cathy and I started pulling and we got the nose out and broke the sack so that she could breath(she was starting to suffocate)

when he got there he slipped the chains on and we started pulling she came about 3-4 minutes after that.

It was kind of a rought birth, and if we hadn't of been there poor Bailey would have been dead 3 times over, NOT KIDDING!!!

Because 1, the filly was too big for her( and she is a maiden mare) and she was starting to give up and she was reaching that 30 minute mark where the foal will die if left in longer than that so Wendell the AWESOME and me had to pull her out. (Wendell's wife Cathy is AWESOME to and helped a ton as well!)

2. because right when the baby was born the umbilical cord broke instead of staying attached and she was squirting blood everywhere so we got that tied off with a bit of twine and

3. she had a retained placenta and after about 5 injections of oxytocin per the dr's orders(i'm so glad I bought some ahead of time even though ma had to pick up some more that day 'cause I ran out!) it still wasn't coming so we had to take her to the vet at about 7 pm the same day and the poor vet had to manually remove most of it. she and the baby had to spend the night in Gooding because it still wasn't coming. The vet said she passed it about an hour and a half after we left I think we left at about 8:30. He had been peeling away the placenta that WHOLE time, it was still very firmly attatched I guess!

AND if all of that wasn't enough, she wasn't producing enough milk for the baby even though she had been STREAMING milk for WEEKS!!! I had thought that that much oxytocin would stimulate enough milk( that is one if its properties) if that was a problem, but it didn't, maybe we have fescue grass in our pasture that I didn't know about??? So now she is on oral domperidone to help with that, along with banamine(a NSAID) to help combat the threat of laminits from the retained placenta. She also got a shot of long lasting antibiotics at the vets...sooooo...she's pretty drugged up!

that baby is just so stinking cute! But I still can't figure out what color she is...any ideas anybody? she's sort of buckskiny but she's startin to get what sort of looks like a dorsal stripe, but neither of her parents have a dun gene. her legs also fade out instead of get darker so maybe she won't go buckskin. Who knows! I'm just hoping that she doesn't go red(sorrel, chestnut or blood bay) but brown might be okay! But I think that it would be pretty hard to because of the stud's genetics, I've only ever seen color out of him, even when breeding to a red mare like Bailey.

Another funny thing about her is the filly was supposed to be a colt from the ultrasound, so we didn't really look when she was born, we had all just been calling it a him for 9 months! But about five hours later I was playing with her and realized it wasn't a him, it was a HER!!! So we have a filly instead of a colt, I thought I was DONE with mares, sheesh!

And no, she does not have a name yet. However my mom's cousin Sid(the stud's owner) said that we should call her question or q for short since her forehead marking looks kind of like a question mark and because of her interesting and questionable gender.

They are both healthy and happy now, dispite their trauma! Isn't she sooooo cute???

This was her last night Bailey had been an AWESOME mom so far!


I'll try to post more pictures later...

What do you think?

 DD Lenaspottedgator

1998 Sorrel Overo Stallion

If YOU were a horse breeder would you consider breeding your mare to this stud?

What are some things you like or don't like about him such as:

conformation
color
athletic looks
etc.

another thing about him that I forgot to mention is he is a carrier of the rare RB color gene. Maybe good resell value for those who like that???

He also has a very good pedigree and is a grandson of Smart Little Lena and a great Grandson of Doc Bar and a great grandson of doc Bar Twice, these names appear on either side of his pedigree and are not limited to the top.

DD LENASPOTTEDGATOR H, PAINT, 1998

Color: sor APHA #557,210 Sorrel Rabicano Stallion (CLOSE)

DD LENASPOTTEDGATOR* sor 1998 PAINT

LITTLE LENAS LEGEND* sor 14.3 1991 QUARTER HORSE

SMART LITTLE LENA* sor 13.3 1979 QUARTER HORSE

DOC O LENA* b 1967 QUARTER HORSE

DOC BAR* ch 1956

LIGHTNING BAR*

sor 1951

DANDY DOLL*

ch 1948

POCO LENA* b 1949

POCO BUENO*

br 15.0 1944

SHEILWIN*

dun 1943

SMART PEPPY sor 1966 QUARTER HORSE

PEPPY SAN* sor 15.0 1959

LEO SAN*

ch 1949

PEPPY BELLE*

sor 15 1955

ROYAL SMART sor 1958

ROYAL KING*

sor 14.3 1943

MOSS JACKIE TOBIN

b 1948

DOX ELEGANT GIRL sor 1984 QUARTER HORSE

PEPPY SAN BADGER* sor 15.1 1974 QUARTER HORSE

MR SAN PEPPY* sor 15.1 1968

LEO SAN*

ch 1949

PEPPY BELLE*

sor 15 1955

SUGAR BADGER* b 1959

GREY BADGER III

gr 1947

SUGAR TOWNLEY

sor 1943

ELEGANT DOC sor 1975 QUARTER HORSE

DOC BAR* ch 1956

LIGHTNING BAR*

sor 1951

DANDY DOLL*

ch 1948

KING COBRA* b 1956

KING*

b 14.3 1932

MIMI WARNER*

sor 1946

WB SPOTTY DOC sor 1991 QUARTER HORSE

DOCS KING CHEX ch 1976 QUARTER HORSE

DOC BAR* ch 1956 QUARTER HORSE

LIGHTNING BAR* sor 1951

THREE BARS*

ch 15.3 1940

DELLA P*

ch 1934

DANDY DOLL* ch 1948

TEXAS DANDY*

ch 1942

BAR MAID F

ch 1943

KINGETTA CHEX bl ro 1967 QUARTER HORSE

KING FRITZ* b 1956

POWER COMMAND*

sor 1949

POCO JANE*

b 1948

HELEN STAR rd ro 1959

TOMMY STAR

sor 1948

AMARILLO ROAN*

b ro 1952

IMA TRACKIN dun 1981 QUARTER HORSE

STAR TRACKIN sor 1978 QUARTER HORSE

SKIPA STAR* sor 1973

SKIPPERS LAD*

sor 15.2H 1952

PATS DUSTY STAR*

pal 1964

SABRE ETTE sor 1965

SABRE TWISTER

sor 1961

SCOTCH ANNETT

buck 1960

CHUGETTE dun 1976 QUARTER HORSE

ASCOOTIN DUDE pal 1973

BLONDYS DUDE*

sor 1957

SCOOTS AMIE

pal 1968

MISS CHUG dun 15.2 1964

POCO CHUG

dun 1957

CARAMEL CANDY

sor 1951

* - Photo Available

One thing I don't like, and I know that this will sound silly, but I don't like that he's only APHA reg. just because of him being a roan and he has white hair mixed in his coat.

Up to date

we've done a lot since I posted last, here's a bit to catch ya up!

Plimoth Plantation

Yesterday we went to plimoth plantation, it was pretty cool! I didn't blog about it yesterday because I elected for a 3 hour nap instead when we got home!]

but this is what we did yesterday...

The "moo-flower"

a guy making some cool pottery he made it look so easy!

This is in the meetinghouse in the village where they would have town meetings, church and it could serve as a fort when the indians would attack

walking down from the meetinghouse into the village

this is the upstairs of the meetinghouse which had several cannons

Luke giving a visual of what happens when they(the cannons) are fired!

Almost every house had a suit of armor in it, Luke thought it was pretty cool! {but maybe just a tad bit big??}

Jared thought it was cool too!

One of the ladies in a house was out of 'winegar' (vinegar) and needed some more so she sent Luke on an errand to get some more from her Mother. He was very proud to oblige her, can you tell he likes posing??!!

Wow! these were the first cows I had seen on our whole trip so far!!!!!! We are a loooong way from home! Ma said I should have my pic taken to prove that they do have cows in MA!! I still haven't seen a hay truck...hmmm...I'll keep my eyes peeled, but the freeways back here aren't full of semi's like at home...

We thought this was a really cool wood stack, we should attempt it in  the fall with the Bishop at the King's place! This stack was huge!!! (Little boys were more than happy to stand in as a reference!)

an example of a typical hosue...

Inside an indian hut looking at the arrows...

Caleb grinding some corn for supper!

what the outside of that hut looks like that Luke was in...

the same hut, it's hard to see but the thing was HUGE!!!

Caleb inside a indian canoe

they were burning out another canoe...

all of us inside another hut

lots of this...

after we were done at the villages we went to Firendly's for lunch, Friendly's is a must when you're on the east coast!

Afterwards we went to part 2 of Plimoth Plantation which is at a different spot, it includes:

THE Plymouth Rock, it has a 1620 carved into it

The Mayflower 2, which is a full size replica of THE Mayflower, and us standing in front of it again...

It really is a pretty small ship, really small actually, to fit over 130 people on it for several months at a time! WOW! Impressed!

One of the guys showed us how they would have used this tool that I forgot the name of, but it plays a role in lifting the anchor, and in lifting almost any heavy thing that they needed help with

Luke trying to 'steer' the ship!

Later Gators!

Thursday on the beach

wow! we've made it to Thursday already! Today we got to see some pretty cool stuff! Beware, this is a VERY picture heavy post again!

To start the day we had breakfast and played on the beach...

this is the view from our back porch!

 then Jared hid from the camera!...

After that we went to see John Adams' houses...

On the trolley...no, we didn't pose for this picture!

the house where John Adams was born...

The place where John Quincey was born

they are right next to each other, this is the only picture I have to prove it but the cream colored building is John Q.'s birthplace and the brown house in the corner is John sr.'s birthplace. They are on the same lot and very close together.

and last but not least...the place where John Adams died and where he lived for a long time, it's about a mile away from the other houses. It really is a pretty house.

Jared

this is the fireproof library that was built to protect John Q's books!! It's a HUGE library!!!

a plague like thingy to commemorate John Q and his wife Louisa Catherine in their church

John Adams' plaque in the same church

the church had a cool little organ in the balcony in the back

a closer view of the organ

this is the pew that John Q sat in when he was alive

my mom and dad standing by John and Abigail's graves which are in the basement of the same church

this are John Q. and Louisa Catherine's graves they are in the same room

Jared standing in front of the gate of their tombs

 then, we went back into the visitor's center and bought some ice cream from the neighboring shop...

then we drove home and fried some hamburgers for dinner and then the boys wanted to brave the cold and go swimming again...

Meanwhile I sat on the rocks because it was COLD!

we weren't finding any good stuff like last night and the boys finally realized that it was FREEZING so us kids hightailed it home,

 but that's when mom and dad found the good stuff!!

a big fish!

and a big crab!

See ya later!

oh, P.S I have a really fun quilt to show you when I get home!