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A perfect long weekend for this horse
a year ago
Hello all!
For labor day this past weekend, I took a few days off work to visit family, and I was surprised by the amount of apple- and horse-related things I got to do and visit! Check out a few photos on my BlueSky post, if you wish: https://bsky.app/profile/quintree.b...../3l37m5kftcr2o
Thursday, I got to go tubing down a gentle river. That was probably the second or third time in my life doing so, and it was worth every minute of the 2.5 hours floating along on the sunny/cloudy day. Not even trudging out of the water early at the wrong spot kept us from having a good time!
Friday I was offered the choice to play disc golf or visit a farm with a few animals. My folks were surprised I'd rather visit horses for a tour of the rescue farm than play sports - until I reminded them horses are my favorite animal. I got to pet and feed PJ the horse, Snowy the pony, Early the donkey, and Shelby Ann the mule - and saw so many other equines! Each with a name and unique story, from a family-owned Amish work mule sold on desperate times to an improperly trained donkey who thought he was a 1,200-pound dog to a queenly 29-year-old work mule living her best royal life of retirement to a horse saved from slaughter by sending from Spain to the US... Whew. I respect and honor the work that farm's team (some of which volunteer!) to save and care for many animals who were turned away by every other rescue.
Saturday was either going to an apple festival downtown or picking apples at a local orchard - I chose the latter, hearing downtown would be crowded. The orchard wasn't exactly empty either, but we had plenty of time in the sun for good fun: Picking dozens of apples from seemingly endless rows of trees, firing rotten apples from an air-compressed cannon at some targets in the woods, taking a haybale ride behind a tractor, and of course tasting and eating as many apple drinks and treats they served. Mini apple pies, cinnamon-apple donuts, apple ice cream, apple cider, apple cider slushies... it was pure bliss, I tell you.
Sunday onwards was mostly spent with family going hiking, celebrating a relative's first birthday, and playing all sorts of card/board/video games such as Skip-Bo and Jackbox games. One Night Werewolf turned out a hit among relatives! Even if my poor grandmother couldn't keep up and didn't want to see any of her grandchildren "killed" for the game, heh!
Tomorrow I get back to work and it won't be easy for me to get back in that swing of things, but it'll come around.
Up next - who knows! I want to remember to use this site more than I have been for the past few months, including sharing artwork so stay tuned! My next in-person convention will be Carolina Furfare in October, then I'm making plans to travel to Midwest FurFest in December.
R.I.P. Dragoneer, thank you for your work building this online space and community <3
For labor day this past weekend, I took a few days off work to visit family, and I was surprised by the amount of apple- and horse-related things I got to do and visit! Check out a few photos on my BlueSky post, if you wish: https://bsky.app/profile/quintree.b...../3l37m5kftcr2o
Thursday, I got to go tubing down a gentle river. That was probably the second or third time in my life doing so, and it was worth every minute of the 2.5 hours floating along on the sunny/cloudy day. Not even trudging out of the water early at the wrong spot kept us from having a good time!
Friday I was offered the choice to play disc golf or visit a farm with a few animals. My folks were surprised I'd rather visit horses for a tour of the rescue farm than play sports - until I reminded them horses are my favorite animal. I got to pet and feed PJ the horse, Snowy the pony, Early the donkey, and Shelby Ann the mule - and saw so many other equines! Each with a name and unique story, from a family-owned Amish work mule sold on desperate times to an improperly trained donkey who thought he was a 1,200-pound dog to a queenly 29-year-old work mule living her best royal life of retirement to a horse saved from slaughter by sending from Spain to the US... Whew. I respect and honor the work that farm's team (some of which volunteer!) to save and care for many animals who were turned away by every other rescue.
Saturday was either going to an apple festival downtown or picking apples at a local orchard - I chose the latter, hearing downtown would be crowded. The orchard wasn't exactly empty either, but we had plenty of time in the sun for good fun: Picking dozens of apples from seemingly endless rows of trees, firing rotten apples from an air-compressed cannon at some targets in the woods, taking a haybale ride behind a tractor, and of course tasting and eating as many apple drinks and treats they served. Mini apple pies, cinnamon-apple donuts, apple ice cream, apple cider, apple cider slushies... it was pure bliss, I tell you.
Sunday onwards was mostly spent with family going hiking, celebrating a relative's first birthday, and playing all sorts of card/board/video games such as Skip-Bo and Jackbox games. One Night Werewolf turned out a hit among relatives! Even if my poor grandmother couldn't keep up and didn't want to see any of her grandchildren "killed" for the game, heh!
Tomorrow I get back to work and it won't be easy for me to get back in that swing of things, but it'll come around.
Up next - who knows! I want to remember to use this site more than I have been for the past few months, including sharing artwork so stay tuned! My next in-person convention will be Carolina Furfare in October, then I'm making plans to travel to Midwest FurFest in December.
R.I.P. Dragoneer, thank you for your work building this online space and community <3
Mevolas
~zonastus
hope to see you at MFF again!!
TorTheBull
~skythedragones
sound like you had a grand time! hope you have fun at MFF!
ArtieNuki
~the-b3ing
Looking forward to the art ya post, and glad to hear youre making a return to MFF! Ill be going as well :3
