Tom and Jerri: OCTOBER "BUSY-NESS"

It has been a while since I last posted- due in part to busy-ness and businss.

The past month has been crazy to say the least- and while I won't share all of the "details" here- someday you can read about it in my journal...
But here are some pictures to help explain...

Caught Kyle at his last soccer game of the season- he was very enthusiastic. That's him getting ready to kick the ball in.

Kaylee was not happy that Ryan had a game to play and she didn't. So I distracted her with an orange cone-hat, which, being a girl, she liked!

We had some returning guests at the Retreat Center over UEA- their little girl jumped out of the car and ran straight back to see Patches- who was already back at the ranch for the winter. She was so upset that Tom and I told her we'd go home and get her for the weekend so she could play with her. We got home and discovered a very good reason why Patches could not go back to the Center

Patches, not to be outdone by Bitzie, decided October was also a fine time to have babies...One blue-eyed buck and a brown eyed doe. Arn't they cute?

So we invited the family out to the ranch- which they enjoyed even more because all the kids got to pet the ponies as well as hold the new baby goats!

Bitzie's pair think they look good as garden ornaments...

With the threat of winter looming- I decided Ace was growing too fast and getting too big and if I didn't make some progress in his training this Fall, by Spring he may be that much bigger and harder to work with. So-

I introduced him to the saddle pad...

Which he thought was a great toy to chew on...

But I did get it on his back with no trouble- and dragged it over his head and shook it at him- just to make sure it wasn't a scary thing to him- which it wasn't :-) I also walked him down the road- cars ARE a scary thing for him- so we'll need to spend more time doing that before the snow flies.