Evening stroll

October 29, 2008

So PJ, Gamble and Kip got out of the pasture one night this fall (Oct 29th) and went for a stroll. I didn't discover it until I went to feed them on Thursday morning and they weren't there. Luckily the police had seen them about 11:00 pm and followed them as they made their way back to the OLD PASTURE. The police put them through a gate and thought that they were fenced in. However, the old pasture doesn't have a fence around it any more, but they were content to spend the night wandering around the old barn until the morning when I was able to pick them up and haul them back. They traveled about 4 miles through the streets of Alpine.

Introduction to our horses

We have been interested in horses for quite a while, but have only been actively involved as owners/caretakers since 2002. Scott used to ride most Sunday afternoons while in high school with a couple of friends. After the end of school their junior year they went on a week long horseback trip in Huntington Canyon. Lots of 'interesting' events that will be documented elsewhere. Scott also rode while on his mission for the LDS church on the Navajo Indian reservation, 1975-77. Again, a number of exciting stories from that episode that will be recorded elsewhere, someday. Scott's brother, Ben, had a number of horses including Pay Chex, a grulla AQHA stallion. Our first horse of the "modern" era is PJ (Pay Chex's Jewell, b. 1984) a grulla Paint mare that was sired by Pay Chex and was out of Jewells, a Paint. PJ was named by Ronda. We brought PJ to Alpine in January of 2003. Gamble (b. 1982) a Quarter horse gelding, came early that summer. We added Kip (registered name Capital Gold Smoke b. 2000), a POA, in the spring of 2004 and Kori in 2007 after leasing him since 2005. Kori (registered name Koriadni Vector+ b. 1995) is an Arabian and earned his LEGION of MERIT award in 2008. We added Beau (also an Arabian with the registered name Crimson Beau Dean b. 1994) to the herd in December 2008.