Sugar & Spice

We just picked up two new girls on Tuesday, meet Sugar and Spice! These two lovely girls are purebred arabs, 8 and 14. Sugar is Spice's mom. We went for a little ride on the beach to see how things would go, they are both nice horses, though Spice will need a bit of work.


I'm on Sugar, Jarrett is on Spice, click on any of the pics for a larger view.

the basin again

I am gonna give this Blog a try. I am Jarrett so for a change you will actually get to see pics of Robin on this weeks blog. We went into the basin again this weekend. It is the opening weekend of bow season so we decided to take a hunt on the horses. We took a couple friends in with us. The trip started out kinda rough with the pack horses being stupid and I got bucked off in a pile of sticks. But it really turned into a good weekend.

Here is me and Jody each leading an extra horse. The girls followed in the pickup with the gear because the pack horses were acting up and being dumb.

Robin holding Bounce who packed alot of our gear down the last pull from the truck.

Me, Jody and Melissa out with the bows, Robin keeps a close hand on the camera.  

The trail into the basin

The trail down the river

Jody and Melissa going down a nice little steep spot

The waterfall at Dutchman creek

Robin trying to avoid the camera

The road out

Another of us heading home

Robin riding Bailey and leading Glory

Meilssa leading the pack

Jody looking a little sore

Finally, Rodeo weekend pics!

Ok, Finally the Rodeo pics! Even though we went riding tonight too, I will be horribly busy the next two nights, so figured I'd better get these up now. 

Shoeing Zeta before the Rodeo


Bailey, Zeta, and Glory


Bailey getting some finishing touches before she runs the barrels that afternoon.


Grand Entry for the Junior's Rodeo, Bailey and Bounce are the 2 to the Right of the Greys. They were both well behaved for the ceremony (click to enlarge), both acted like old pros and stood quiet .  


Bailey's Run


Bounce's Run, while not the fastest runs, it was both horses first time running in front of a crowd and they did wonderfully & ran clean, we couldn't have asked for more. 


I got to get some pictures from on top of the chutes, definately the best seat in the house! This is from the local bull riders' competition. Then I got to video tape the CCPRA riders that evening so that meant a complete unobstructed view...  Way cool!


We were feeling a bit evil, we padlocked Jason in his tent, collapsed the poles,  then gave him a chicken to hang out with. The chicken wasn't harmed , other than it has become a horribly needy chicken and sleeps on the dresser in a dog bed in the current owners house. Aparently it liked to cuddle...


Ok, then some of the fun that kept me from writing the blog last week, This is from Tues night at Redwood park. Bailey is such a good girl,  you really aren't susposed to do this on a green broke horse (but we aren't telling her that)!


We were accosted into a photo op on the Beach Monday night... 

Last weekend we took it easy but somehow managed to not get enough time to ride, but got the bows ready and sighted in for opening of bow season this upcoming weekend. We are planning on packing into the basin so look for pics of that next week. 

Apologies!

Sorry, but I ended up riding every day this week and just didn't get any pics up, and we are on dial-up up here so I will have to post all of the pics next week. I will get them up though! We got some good ones at the Rodeo, Bailey and Bounce both ran the barrels in the teenage division and did stellar for their first times. So check back next week, Mon night hopefully.

Beach Ride

Sorry, no pics this week, we decided to just leave the camera at home and have a personal weekend for my birthday. We rode a lot, took Bassira along, she had fun! Was upset when we put her back in the pasture then went out again, she stood there calling away wanting to come along again. 

Tonight we went riding on the beach, it was a nice evening ride, a bit windy but not bad. The highlight of the evening was watching a pod of whales about 200 yds directly off shore for about 30 minutes, shortly before sunset. They put on quite a show for us, we were up on top of the dunes so could see them really well, it was spectacular!  Then we watched the sunset from horseback, which is always a pretty sight over the ocean.  

Will have more pics up next week, definately bringing the camera along, we are headed over to the Rodeo (going to ride over the ridge on Friday to get there) then Shasta is going to be riding one of the mares in the barrels so we will have lots to take pics of... Make sure to check back!

The best weekend ever!!

We spent last weekend in the Trinity Alps, which was my pick for my Birthday trip. We went a week early so Shasta could go with us since she had the rare weekend off from work. It was by far the funnest trip I have ever gone on! I put the pictures in my Photobucket album because there are so many of them! Definitely check them out, but here are a few random ones...

Early Sunday Morning, anyone recognise this pretty girl?

Sunday afternoon coming back from the lake - The small buck. We came across this guy and his buddy first, he is the smallest, a pacific fork way out past his ears (look close,might have to click on it), and he was with a tall 3 x 3. Then there were two more HUGE ones up the hill. This guy didn't even care about us, he stood about 30 yards from us (by the rock pile on the left) for a few minutes and was just walking off here. We then ran the horses up the hill to follow and they just calmly walked through the trees not even caring about us. The bigger bucks didn't stick around though, they were wiser than that! Still, one of the most amazing things ever! We were so stunned that we forgot to take pics, finally remembered to get this one! 

Lots of flowers. The wildflowers were blooming like crazy, so many different kinds, it was just beautiful!

The boys, being silly!

On the way to the lake, the pictures are deceptive, it is a rough & dangerous trail, no room for any error on parts of it (no pics of the worst because it is just too dangerous to have the camera out). The granite is very slippery for the horses and it is sharp, jagged and big, not to mention steep drop offs  too. The horses all did great though, but they definitely  have to trust their riders to get through this safe.

Headed home... But it was still one heck of a good ride!!!

Also, from the weekend before, our new wagon!

It is normally covered in canvas, which we will put on when we use it. It has a camp box on the back, place for 2-3  ice chests, lots of storage, 2 beds... We are going to do some serious camping out of it!!

This weekend we are planning to go back to the basin, so should have some more good pics next week. 

Malmseys!

We have finally gotten our new website up and running! Please check it out and let us know what you think. http://www.Malmseys.com and the new blog http://malmseys.blogspot.com. If you would like to order before August 31, 2008 e-mail me and I will send you a promotion code to use for a 15% discount!! A great opportunity to get some Christmas shopping done.