Mostly Wordless Wednesday

We got PanKake three years ago.Within half an hour of coming home, she was sprawled out on my lap, "flat as a pancake!"

I suggested a nickname would be "PC", but Allan didn't want to claim anything in our lives as being "p.c."
Sandy thought we brought PanKake home for her!She was to be an indoor kitty, as, the previous summer, we had lost two barn cats to coyotes (at least initially we thought it was coyotes). We later found that a pair of great-horned owls had moved into the neighborhood--specifically, into our barn!Lately, indoor kitty PanKake has been sneaking out to see the wide world.This shed isn't very WARM!
Let me back in the house...
NOW!

Think I'll go out to Alberta, Weather's good there in the fall....

....I got some friends that I could go to working for.
Still I wish you'd change your mind
If I ask you one more time
But we've been through this a hundred times or more.

Chorus: Four strong winds that blow lonely
Seven seas that run high
All those things that don't change come what may.
If all the good times are all gone
Then I'm bound for movin' on
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way.

If I get there before the snow flies
And if things are lookin' good
You could meet me if I send you down the fare.
But, by then it would be winter
Not too much for you to do
And those winds sure can blow cold 'way out there.

Chorus: Four strong winds that blow lonely
Seven seas that run high
All those things that don't change come what may.
If all the good times are all gone
Then I'm bound for movin' on
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way.
Four Strong Winds, Ian Tyson

It's time for slick little Miss Amyto start growing her Yak Koat (here modeled during her chubby first winter). She is headed for the frozen Northland.
Amy (Amber Arabesque) has been sold to the WF Bar Ranch in Alberta, Canada! She will be the first champagne mare in their broodmare band, after finishing her saddle training this winter or next spring. We wish her warmth and a happy life, and can't wait to see her babies in a few years!

Look who rolled into town!

I have been swamped here at EvenSong Farm!

Not in quite the same manner as Haiku Farm, but buried in projects, both at home and at school.

This visit was actually a few weeks ago, but I figured I'd better get something posted, and this was the easiest subject.
Also, fun.

Pat and her older mare, Rusty, who often are our companions on trail rides, have another persona:
Pat has used Rusty for years in her little metal horse cart. She taught her granddaughter to drive with Rusty, and 13-year-old K. now shows one- and two-horse "big hitches" of Belgians around the Northwest!
On this day, I was expecting a visit, but was down in a trench, working on the new sprinkler line when they arrived, so didn't get back to the barn until Pat already had Rusty unhitched and resting at my expensive new tie rail.The bucket was not for Rusty...It was a bunch of fresh-picked tomatoes from Pat's garden!
Pat and Rusty have visited before, but what was exciting this time was that they had driven down in Pat's beautiful new "Meadowbrook" cart! All wood, often times when you find these gems, they've been sitting out in the weather someplace and are somewhat deteriorated. Word of this one came to Pat through the friend of a friend, and she was expecting to have to do a lot of restoration work. She was pleasantly surprised when she found out that the rig had been stored inside most of it's life, and needs only minor refinishing work!
I was impressed with Rusty's patience as she stood stock still for hitching.

Badger has way more room in the Meadowbrook, but had to learn to "load" from the back.

He doesn't have the view out the front that he had in the metal cart, but Badger has adapted.

Off they go towards home.