... the comings and the goings

Deuce meeting Willy. Willy is the farm ambassador, a few squeals and oinks from both and then they went back to eating grass.

New girl in the field and the other three are the mean girls

Busy busy winter in the barn, with 13 stalls filled and two horses living outside. It felt like an arduous job everyday to muck 13 stalls. On the best days for me, three of us would split the work. I must say here that the new farm hand was working out very well. It didn't take long for me to lose interest, about the time I had to start wearing three layers of clothes. Then I pulled out my go to line about "not my job" and I stayed home, warm and happy ... and not the least bit guilty. My favourite job was to make supper for everyone instead.

Sierra, the Black Dragon, "No, you may NOT be part of this herd!"

But Willy likes all the new horses

Thirteen inside horses went down to 9 quickly as spring approached, then 3 more left at the beginning of March.
Easy peasy in the barn but the Bill Payer, aka  Heather,  started getting worried. An ad went up, an acquaintance showed up who remembered Heather had a horse farm and then two friends came back and brought two more friends with horses. Now it's near the end of April, 17 horses ...

Deuce meeting Ben. 

Deuce is actually a good sized half Arabian Saddlebred cross 

while Ben is a Belgium cross. 

Beside Ben, Deuce looks like a pretty girlie horse

New ranch hand