{"id":1746,"date":"2012-01-02T13:22:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T19:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2012-01-02T13:52:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T19:52:41","slug":"new-world-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/new-world-today\/","title":{"rendered":"New World Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Talk about lives turned upside down and we’ll talk about a day at\u00a0For the Horse Ranch<\/a>! \u00a0Firstly, Lucky Star<\/a> had his life upturned just a couple of times since his amazing birth survival story. \u00a0He did go away for training when he was younger. \u00a0That was his first time. \u00a0After that, he settled in to be a friendly pasture horse for about two years. \u00a0Nothing was required from him. \u00a0Suddenly his life was turned around when he got into my trailer and was inserted into a pasture with Velvet, Goldie and Sage. \u00a0Sage left him shortly after that to live at For the Horse Ranch in the hopes of becoming in foal to JJ. \u00a0So, he’s lived with me, bossed around by Goldie and Velvet. \u00a0I’ve been taking him over to Pine Dell Farm for his training sessions and once to Kitty Hawk. \u00a0He’s been traveling.<\/p>\n

Now he wakes up, gets deposited into the trailer with Velvet and is unloaded into an entirely new life. \u00a0He has new pasture mates<\/a> Lucky Star is the little brown horse in the middle of this photo. \u00a0His new spotted friend, Caddy is way taller. \u00a0Monday, 1\/2\/12, he gets to be a training horse with Tony and Jenny Vaught.<\/p>\n

(Just so you know, Tony and Jenny have introduced a $500 winter training rate. So we are all jumping on the band wagon to get our horses in at this rate…plus the weather is being good!)<\/p>\n

While at the ranch, I met Jedi. \u00a0His life hadn’t changed drastically that day, but in the last week. \u00a0He is a Missouri Fox Trotter rescue horse. \u00a0He was too much horse for his owner and falling on hard times. \u00a0His prior trainer told the owner that the only thing that could save him was natural horsemanship. \u00a0When they picked him up, he was showing his rib bones and his hip bones. \u00a0In about 3-4 days, he’s gained 75 lbs. and looks to be at peace with his pasture world. \u00a0He’s worried about the humans, but at peace with the non human part of it. \u00a0I got to watch him in the round pen show off his magnificent natural fox trot. \u00a0Hi many sisters and brothers are World Celebration World Champions and World Grand Champions. \u00a0He was given to Tony and Jenny, but papers have not yet been transferred.<\/p>\n

Jenny asks me if I have time after the group lesson to go with her and pick up a fox trotter for her at Margaret Brown\u2019s house. \u00a0I ask, “For you?” Jenny replies, \u00a0“Yes, for me \u00a0I have to plan for the future.” \u00a0Certainly, you do!\u201d I reply. \u00a0I am delighted. \u00a0Since I love the fox trotter horse and I love the fun we have at the World Celebration, I never want this life to end. Jedi and the new horse are going to make certain that life at the World Celebration never ends. \u00a0Jenny, Tony, Nichole \u00a0and Caitlyn will be riding!<\/p>\n

Firstly, the entire group lesson people descend upon Hannah’s. \u00a0It’s a convenience store with a little restaurant. \u00a0They serve yummy homemade food and they have everything to sell that one would need…gas, candy bars, drinks, Starbucks coffee, pizza and ice cream. \u00a0I went into Hannah’s carrying my keys. \u00a0We talked for a long time as we ate our lunch. When we were ready to leave, I had lost my pickup keys. \u00a0WHAT! \u00a0I know I had them at the cash register. \u00a0I know I carried them away from the cash register. \u00a0I set my drink down at the table. \u00a0I took off my sweat shirt. \u00a0I went to the restroom. \u00a0I came back to the table and decided it was too shaky, so I moved my sweatshirt and drink to the new table. \u00a0That’s all I did. \u00a0We searched everywhere for my keys except the restroom trash. \u00a0Luckily, I have woke up in night sweats about losing my truck keys when I’m out in the world with horses in the trailer. \u00a0I have keys hidden all over the truck and trailer. \u00a0Even more luck, I remembered where one of the keys was and found it. \u00a0Glory Be… \u00a0It caught a little bit, but finally turned and the truck started! \u00a0After that, the key stayed in the ignition until I got home. Thank You Lord for giving me night sweats worrying about losing the truck key!<\/p>\n

Later Jenny mentioned the restroom trash. \u00a0hmmmm<\/p>\n

Margaret Brown, long time breeder of Missouri Fox Trotters, is next door neighbor to Tony and Jenny. She’s been telling Jenny to come over and look at a horse. \u00a0Just a few days ago, Jenny did just that and tried to shake that horse out of her mind. \u00a0Unsuccessfully. \u00a0She tried to shake a vision out of her mind. The vision is Dazzled. \u00a0She is a dappled buckskin with a blaze, one white foot and black racing strips up her legs. \u00a0She is a looker! \u00a0Her conformation is excellent. \u00a0She has big darn soulful eyes. \u00a0I can’t even get her out of my mind, she is that good looking. \u00a0Well, we picked up Dazzle from Margaret. Dazzle was not exactly ready to leave Margaret and we got to have fun watching a Jenny trailer loading demonstration. \u00a0I love trailer loading demonstrations!<\/p>\n

We brought Dazzle<\/a> back to the ranch and let her out in Lucky Star’s pen. \u00a0Lucky Star looked like a truck ran over him and he puffed up into his best imitation of a stallion. \u00a0He pranced around after Dazzle<\/a>. \u00a0He tried to keep the other gelding away from Dazzle. Dazzle did a few laps of the pasture. She floated around like an Arabian. She cantered. \u00a0She was gorgeous.<\/p>\n

Margaret has another horse to sell. \u00a0A red and white mare that is been there and done that. \u00a0If you are interested in a fox trotter been there done that mare, let me know and I’ll get you in contact with Margaret Brown in Fair Play.<\/p>\n

We were back at the ranch marveling over all the horses and suddenly I sensed darkness. \u00a0 I looked at my timekeeper and it was nearly 5:30! \u00a0How had it gotten that late without me knowing it!<\/p>\n

Hope and I left For the Horse Ranch. \u00a0We stopped back in at Hannah’s to look at the trash, but they were preparing to close early for New Year’s Eve and thrown the trash away.<\/p>\n

We barely got home before the New Year’s Eve crowd got on the road. \u00a0The group lesson was from 11:00 to 1:00. \u00a0Never did we think it would be nearly 8:00 in the evening when we got home!<\/p>\n

This was a big Big day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Talk about lives turned upside down and we’ll talk about a day at\u00a0For the Horse Ranch! \u00a0Firstly, Lucky Star had his life upturned just a couple of times since his amazing birth survival story. \u00a0He did go away for training when he was younger. \u00a0That was his first time. \u00a0After that, he settled in to be a friendly pasture horse for about two years. \u00a0Nothing was required from him. \u00a0Suddenly his life was turned around when he got into my trailer and was inserted into a pasture with Velvet, Goldie…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-country-franks-lucky-star","category-missouri-fox-trotter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1788,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions\/1788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}