We have a new neighbor!

A couple years ago, word came to us that someone from here wanted to buy some property for her and her horses.  In a very short time we had sold her 20 acres of our land just across the field from where our new house was going to be, and a short time after that she had fences put up and had moved in her thirteen horses, and as she said, one of every color!

It just seemed like a win-win deal for us--some extra cash for us and our house and the sight of all those pretty horses out there...and no work on our part.  And now she has a beautiful new house for her and a nice stable for her horses, a little pony and two fainting goats.  I guess we do get called once in a while when the horses get out of their enclosure, but we've never been the ones who located the lost sheep, I mean horses.  I really don't think we'd know what to do if we ever found them, but just the searching is part of the adventure.

A week or so ago, she told us that there was going to be a baby horse coming soon, and this past Thursday was the day.  It was born outside in the pasture, but since it was a cold and windy day, she put mother and baby in the stable to keep warm.  But last night on our drive coming back from the Smelt Fry, there was the new baby horse along with his (I think I heard he's a he) protective entourage.  What a cutie!

This pasture is right on my walking route, so I'm sure there will be more pictures to come!

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I just checked the ice caves camera.  Here's the link.  They have been posting pictures every 10 minutes since yesterday and today around noon it finally started breaking up.  By this evening it's almost all gone.  Pretty cool!