Daily Carrot

 Filly born at the farm summer of 2014, now she is a year old.  I will post updated photos of her.  Naughty by Night is her mom.  The filly's name is Naughty.  Actually she is for sale :-(  I don't want to see her go.. she's very sweet.  

Two horses that love one another and get along so well.  Knightly is retired OTTB and Mock is a 10 year old TB off the track as well.  They are turned out 24/7/365.  

Here is my beautiful boy in the snow this past winter.  2015_ February. 

Posted by Anna Blake on April 3, 2015 at 9:27am View Blog At some distant moment in the past, probably after seeing The Miracle of the White Stallions when I was a kid, I found out that Spanish horses were started at 4 years old. Back then, I thought it was a terrible waste. Then a few years ago, I was at a nutritional seminar where the conversation turned to options to prepare long yearlings to start under saddle. And I thought the same thing–what a terrible waste. Then this week I read an article that said the optimal time to start a horse was 7 years old, the age a horse has fully grown. So it goes, the horse world is not short on opinion. I don’t want to start a debate about who’s right, what I notice is that horse lovers disagree from the start. We disagree on everything from age to training style to the right tack to use. Then we probably get defensive about it. We compare the worst Dressage rider to the best Reiner, or the best Eventer with the worst Endura...

Boston has set records during this stretch include: - Record 30-day snowfall: 94.4 inches from Jan. 24- Feb. 22, 2015.. we beat the record of the Blizzard of '78 when I first moved to Boston of 58.8 inches.   Incredibly, this 30-day total would be the third snowiest season! Photo by: J. Towner     Temperatures were below normal for weeks, not days. Now that it's warming up, meaning staying in the 30's and not dropping below 16 you start to notice all the trash that people threw all over the place.  Somehow people seem to think that the snow will cover everything from cans, to papers, and crap everywhere...  forgetting about snow eventually melts only to expose all the trash.     But, hey.. let's enjoy the beauty of the white stuff in the above photo.  Ahhhh.

Why we decided to go to the Icelandic Farm http://www.icelandichorses.com/  in October one will never know, but hey that's what people do when they live three hours away and don't realize the weather could change on a dime. In spite of the rain and 20 degree mornings, we had the time of our lives and can't wait to go back. This year we will do the Trek early September in the peak of foliage and hopefully dryer warmer weather. Both my friends, Gail & Rachel independent of one another wanted to take this trip. Not knowing one another I put the deal together and once away in our own "vacation land" we were all separated at birth. Many a laughs and drinks later... We stayed at Landau Bed and Breakfast which I cannot rave enough about. The food, the owner... outside fire pit.. rooms, cat and friendly guest this is a must go back again type of place. Here is where we stayed.  http://www.lareaufarminn.com/