The Holidays are mostly over. New Years is this coming Thursday. I have one more Christmas to celebrate, that is with my big brother and his wife. Then things will settle down to a different routine. During the cold months there isn't much going on outdoors, I just try to keep up with the usual chores and make sure that when kidding time is getting close I have everything ready.
I have decided to declare 2015 as my year of the horse. I hope to get back to my first real passion and spend a lot more time doing horsey things. I am planning on doing a lot of on the ground work this winter and build a better bond with my pony Porchia. I have been reading books and watch videos about build respect and confidence on the ground, so I think I am ready to begin doing some of the work.
I may even go out after I am done with this and do my first set of exercises. Each one builds upon the first ones. The method I am going to use is Clinton Anderson's method. I watched his program about training a wild horse and it all seemed to be an easy to follow program.
Needless to say, I hope to report on the results here.
I am also training Sigrid. She will be mentioned as well in this record. And pictured as well. So far she is a very quick little girl and I will need to stay on top of her training.
One thing that is kind of note worthy of today, I canned seven pints of turkey soup from our leftover turkey. I also bagged up and froze a good portion of the ham as well. The ham bones are simmering now and I plan to make both bean soup as well as potato soup using what scrapes come off the bones. Both of those will be frozen.
Greg and I agreed to try to see how long we could go before we HAD to go to the grocery store. I stocked up on staples like flour, sugar, and coffee. There is plenty of meat in the freezer as well as frozen and canned veggies. Today I went out to the garden a pulled a few carrots to put into the soup. There are beets, carrots, rutabagas, and parsnips still out there covered with straw to keep them from freezing. There is also winter squash in the attic along with onions from the garden and a 50 pound bag of potatoes from Chita's work place. I think we can go for quite sometime before we have to shop for food.
Anyone else want to except the challenge to eat from the fridge/freezer/cellar along with us?
Well since this isn't a very interesting entry I think I should make good on what I said about starting the first exercise while the sun is still shinning.
Be safe and enjoy your new year celebrations. See you in the new year!
