New Shoes

On Sunday, Logan learned the fine art of shoeing a horse from his dad. His dad had learned years back from a friend of the family that is a farrier and they would ride with on a regular basis. We still use the same farrier for our horses but at $80 a horse, it gets pricey real quick - especially when you have 2 horses and they have to be replaced x number of times throughout the year.

Poor Daisy got to be the test subject. She is an old pro at having shoes and stands really well. Plus Jetta has never had shoes put on her before and is still young so we probably will have a farrier do her shoes the first time or two.

Logan did a really good job as far as we can tell. All of the nails came out the other side and the shoes are still on a day later :) It's hard work and takes a lot of practice that is for sure! You have to have the strength to squat down holding the horse's leg plus file, nail, clip and adjust all at the same time!

So here are some pics of the learning process...



Daisy was a pretty good sport about it all and as patient as could be expected!

Oh - by the way...I found my old digital camera...What did I say? As soon as I bought a new one the other would show up. Well it did show up - almost 3 months later. I found it in all places but the drawer of my night stand. Now - what it was doing there I will NEVER know and why I didn't see it the million times I open that drawer to get chapstick or tweezers or whatever who knows. Chalk it up to pregnancy brain then. I love, love, love my new camera though so I don't regret buying it - anyone want to buy a very nice Kodak EasyShare camera? :)