Last week the owner of the pregnant mare Heather's Apparel was to make his first visit to the farm. He has boarded here in the past but has actually never been to the farm. Arrangements were made to pick him up in Ligonier and drive him up to see his horse and our facilities. I was just finishing up a 24 hour shift on the helicopter and on my way home. I expected to see Todd and Jimmy at the farm upon my arrival but did not. Shortly after I arrived at home Jimmy called me to ask if I could go to the firehall and pick up Todd, you see, while they were on the way to the farm a fire call went out for a logging accident.  I drive out to the firehall and see Jimmy absolutly covered in mudd from head to toe. Todd has several mudd streaks on his pants. Poor guy, all he wanted to do was visit the farm and see his horse, and there he was inadvertantly on an accident scene helping an injured logger with a severe abdominal wound. They had tried to fly the patient out but due to poor visibility and fog no helicopters could make it in. The patient went by ambulance to the trauma center and the OR. We finally get Todd out to the farm to see everything. He is unable to stay very long due to his job, but all in all I think his first visit to the farm was good... I'm sure it was memorable!!
  We have recently had 3 new horses added to the Takota Barn. 2 of the horses had been here before but moved to S. Carolina. The owner is now back in Pa. so the horses are back with us.  The 3rd horse is a Rocky mountain horse, he is just beautiful!!
  We have had "the fence guy" out to give a bid on fencing off another large paddock so hopefully that will be started and completed soon.
  We are still making hay and loading the barns. Plans are to get the oats off this Thursday. So much to be done and not enough hours in the day!
 Well, just got back from a flight ( chainsaw accident) got paperwork to do.

Happy trails,

Tracy