Newsletter

Winter 2006

Hello All!
Boy what a crazy winter this has been! I won't complain about the weather, I do like it warm, but it is a little strange! Hope the holidays found everybody well!

All of us a Kidder Brook Farm have been very busy getting ready for the upcoming season. We have so much planned to do, I can't wait and have a touch of spring fever. We are planning on shows and lessons and of course summer camp! We would like to offer summer camp for children and also a program or two for the adults. I thought it would be fun to offer a weekend camp that adults can come to enjoy, and kickback and learn something to boot!

Some other exciting news include the arrival of 5, yes 5 foals for this year. In the middle of March our mares will start the "foal parade" The first to go I think will be our little black and white pinto Shetland pony mare, Daisy, however Kim's Gypsy mare, Step On By may try to beat her out! We also have another Gypsy mare Polly who is in foal but shouldn't be due until May. Recently we have acquired two lovely sweet new mares for our lesson program, who as a bonus arrived heavy in foal. Oops. Well we can use them as lesson horses after their motherly duties. They are not so heavy in foal that we haven't been able to ride them (very lightly I should add). They sure seem to like the attention, and we have enjoyed getting to know them. Whinney is a little buckskin Quarter Horse mare who is quite affectionate and really relates to the children. Neena is a little bay pinto mare who is also very sweet. Both mares are in foal to a large Welsh Cob stallion. We think they will be wonderful babies! Make a note to yourself! Most these foals will be looking for nice people to adopt them! This could be really awesome experience for somebody to come and start bonding with their horse from day one. I personally have owned a bunch of horses, and loved them all, even the ones that weren't that lovable, but my Apache Moon was the first I foaled out by myself (well his mother did all the work, I just got the enema and iodine). Now eighteen years later, I still have my Apache Moon, we have gone riding and competed, won and lost, argued and agreed, but most importantly taken care of each other for these eighteen years (well, it will be 18 on July 11) and wouldn't trade that for anything in the world! It is truly a special thing to have touch your life.

We are also gearing up to start clearing even more land for more turnout, time to sharpen the chain saws and get moving. In a twisted sort of way I actually like that sort of thing. Kim and John have been working on it for years and are quite proficient, I would be the green horn trying to figure out how to start the chain saw! The good news is I have a healthy fear of the chainsaw, which I like to think makes me a safe chainsaw handler. Kim and John make it look so easy! The inventor in me gets pretty excited when I see a log laying in the woods, so this has been pretty thrilling!

Well I need to get moving, its that time of day to start the day!