officially arrived!!!

The passports for the girls have arrived. Cascara allready had one and I only had her registered as a show horse. Bella had to have a new one issued. Since she wasn't bread in Germany, hers is green. Here are some pictures:

Bella's new passport

It's official, Bella's immigrated :)

and she's officially registered as show horse too!

She will never ever end up as somebody's meal!!!!

once more made sure, that she won't end up at slaughter...
Cascara has the same clauses in her passport.

Besitzer = Owner = me :)

Cascara is officially registered as show horse too!!!

grass, grass, grass...

Last Wednesday we moved to a new barn. Unfortunately our old one turned out to be quit a mess. Broken bridges, deep mud, hard arena ground and terrible handling of the horses had me worried for the safety of my two girls. In addition the horses had still not been turned out on the grass by June.

When I was told about Bella  almost hanging herself due to them tying her inappropriately while mucking the stall I found a new barn and moved the girls the next day.

We didn't move far, but this time we moved to a barn, that a couple of friends had recommended to us. It doesn't have a big indoor arena, but it has a small one for lunging and a nice big outdoor arena. They have single indoor stalls and big outdoor stalls with huge paddocks for multiple horses. I though about where to place the girls. I didn't want to separate them. They love each other so much, but in the end I made the decision, that it would be best to place Cascara in an outdoor stall and Bella in an indoor stall.

Bella is still very skinny and I want her to be able to have her meals in peace and quiet in the mornings and evenings without being bothered by other horses. She's such a slow eater that I would also be afraid of her not getting enough hay in an outdoor stall with other horses. She still gets to go outside during the day every day.

Cascara is a little fatty, so she is fine in an outdoor with other horses. I can feed her her grain when I'm at the barn and she shares her hay with the other mare in her pen. They get along fine. The only downside is that Cascara and Bella scream for each other as soon as one of them spots the other. They obviously miss each other :(

Here are some pictures of Cascara being turned out in the field with Savannah for the first time...

Savannah - Cascara's new buddy

yummy

after bringing them back in from the field... the girls want to go back out.

color choice

How do you like our new halter? What do you think of our choice of color?
Bella destroyed her old halter, so I had to go get a new one. I really like yellow on a chestnut. I was looking for a yellow and black one. This was as close as I could get...

Bella in Paradise

These pictures are from almost three weeks ago. Our barn owner still hadn't opened the grass fields to the horses, so I took them out to find some grass by myself. Here are some pictures of Bella in the field we walked to. You think we found enough grass???? :D

There's something interesting in the distance...

!yummy!

thief

I wasn't able to drive to the barn for a couple of days, due to studying for my final exam. When I went to visit my girls yesterday, Bella kept stealing my car keys from my pocket. Wonder if she was trying to tell me something :D She had me laughing anyway!

pocket thief

water games

before I left the girls I filled up their water trough in the field. They thought it was time to play... It was fun watching how Cascara would correct Bella with a soft punch, when she started chewing the trough... and when Cascara started playing with the hose Bella copied her immediately... such clowns those girls...

Here's the link to the YouTube video:

water games

 

buddies

Both girls are now together in one field and they seem to like each other a lot. It's very harmonic and both look very happy :)

Bella always comes running to greet me whenever I go visit her... and Cascara decided to follow, though she was more interested in the gelding in the other field ;)

time for some cuddles :)

trying to take pictures of us :D

my two girls... I had a hard time getting a picture of the two of them, because they kept following me...

cuties :)

two thirsty girls...

looking better...

still skinny, but starting to fill out a bit... these pictures are from end of last week and compared to when she arrived I think she's looking a lot better. All the feed I'm stuffing into her seems to be starting to show ;)

so many special people :)

Thursday my friend Kathrin came and said hi to Bella. Aren't they a handsome couple? ;)

way to nice for indoors ;)

Yesterday Cascara had her first outdoor ride. Not a trail ride but at least not an indoor arena anymore. It was just way to nice to ride indoors. Cascara was a champ! Other than a few little bucks or lets rather say popping her put in the air while cantering, she did great. It was only our second time cantering too, so no blame there.

both of us exhausted after our first outdoor session