Goin' Batty!

A few days ago, while my daughters where attending to one of their chores of feeding the dogs, my youngest daughter Porsha, came running back into the house. "Momma, momma, Sadie found a bat!" I told her okay run and tell her sister not to touch it and I would be right there.

So I went outside glove on one hand and this is what was there.He/she was a tiny little thing. Granted i don't know a lot about bats, but judging by the looks of him, and the hair that was still on part of his wings I would say that he/she was a rather young bat.

We took him and turned him loose on one of the many many huge oak trees we have! He started climbing.....

and climbing.....

and climbing! Until he was about 30 feet on up in the tree where the wee little bat turned around and hung his self upside down and slept until dusk!

Here is something we did learn while doing research online trying to find out what kind of bat this little guy is.

Oklahoma has 22 species of insect eating bats. 2 of which are on the endangered species list! Although we still haven't figured out just which species he is!

So be kind to the next critter you find! You never know when you might be handling an endangered animal or your state Representative!

It was quite interesting to learn this about our state, and to learn that Oklahoma has name one of these bats as the state flying mammal!

Finally Got Our Coffee!

Monday morning we got up bright and early and head toward Watonga Oklahoma. Our destination for getting Coffee. In case you have missed the last several post Coffee is our filly out of my good red dun mare Fire My Jets and by my buckskin stallion Dun Encountered That!

When we got there to get Coffee it only took a total of 10 mins and she was in the trailer. I got in the trailer with her and put the halter on her. She was such a good girl.

On the way back we had to make a detour to drop my brother off in Mountain View, and of course show off our Coffee! She loved all the attention and wasn't bothered a bit by all the hands on her.

We left Mountain View and headed for Waurika! We drove through some serious rain and wind. When we got home, we put Coffee in the round pen to relax for a minute. Then into her stall. As we where doing that it started to down pour and lighting very severe. So playing with Coffee was put off for a day.

Yesterday, the sun was shinning and it was beautiful with the exception of the mini lake on my property.

The girls couldn't stand it anymore, they wanted to mess with Coffee, so we waded through the mini lake to higher ground and fetched Coffee from her stall. They had a blast together and she behaved perfectly.

Mercedees leading Coffee and Porsha supervising!
This is only her first full day of weaning from her dam and she is fully halter broke, will lead like a dream and trot beside you when asked!

Porsha making sure Mercedees is doing it right!

Porsha and Mercedees trying to "teach" Coffee where to put her feet!

I love that this filly has her dam's attitude! I worked her for just a min in the round pen today to kind of give her the ideal of what is supposed to be going on, she picked up on it real quick. Oh and just on a side note, this filly had not had a halter on her since she was just a few weeks old. She was not halter broke when we put her in the trailer. That's how quick a learner this filly is and how willing she is TO learn.

Have a great day!

Toodles~~C

There is ALWAYS something to do!!

Well this morning started off great! I went outside and moved Rooster over to the round pen so that i could clean his stall. I noticed while I was cleaning his stall that he was stirring up A LOT of dust,

Okay so maybe not quite THAT much dust but enough! I decided to go over and water the round pen! I can't have my boy start coughing now can I! So as I was watering the round pen Freedom started screaming, as in Whoa momma there's a hottie over here!!! I look at him and he is staring intently at my neighbours house. I step around the big tree which is blocking my view and here comes Sensation.
So I drop the hose go over and catch her tie her to the trailer, make sure everyone else is still in, and look to see what the damage is! Horses amaze me, as I couldn't find one single spot where she could have gotten out /:. So I run in to Duncan to get a fence charger as the two that I have are fired, but that's for another post! Anyway 25 miles into Tractor Supply I go. I get there spend $$$ on a new charger, come home give Sensation a drink, finish cleaning the stall put Rooster back in his stall, and take Sensation and put her in the paddock with the electric fence. So by the time all this is done it is now hours later, my day has is but out of whack! Oh well so goes the life of a horse owner, and I love it!

Moral of the story: the grounds always dry, the fence is a some point NOT going to be hot, and the perfect fence ALWAYS has a whole somewhere!

~Toodles C