Life has been crazy since the beginning of the year but I'm finally getting around to posting an update!Alex went into training on March 29th. The trainer picked her up and was warned ahead of time that Alex hadn't been trailered much so there might be some issues. Wouldn't you know, it's was miserably cold and raining and Alex picked that day to be a complete pain to work with. We tried everything we could thing of and finally after an hour and a half we got her to put one foot into the…See More

Alex tried to do a little housekeeping today, check out the new video. :)

I hope this post finds you well and that you had a very Merry Christmas!After a very hectic week (I actually made a spur of the moment stop into a car lot on my way home from the post office Wednesday and less than 2 hours later drove home in a new used car!) today was wonderful. It was one of the nicest Christmas days I can remember. We had a wonderful time relaxing, laughing, and creating new memories to go with the old.We always go overboard at Christmas, always have, always will. This year…See More

The weather here turned bitter cold a few days ago and Alex picked night before last to unplug her stock tank heater. By the time we noticed it last night the tank had a VERY thick layer of ice and poor Alex thought she was dying of thirst! We ran some water on top of the ice and she guzzled away and we got the tank heater plugged back in so it could start thawing from the bottom up.It wasn't really that big of a deal until an hour or so later I remembered that we still had 5 goldfish living in…See More

There really hasn't been much going on lately so I haven't posted but this was too strange not to share.Yesterday morning Alex was invaded! A huge flock of what we're guessing to be at least 1000 Starlings landed in the pasture. Alex wasn't quite sure what to make of this but she did her part in trying to chase them away. She didn't succeed, they would fly and then land again. This went on for a while and then the birds all left. We saw them fly over again yesterday evening but they didn't…See More