Nadia's Page

Judy and Nadia Styling at the 2002 CarrotFest

December, 2004 - Full Fur Coat

October, 2004

June, 2004 - Trip up the Coast

March, 2003

Just a few update pictures

These were taken on 10 April, 2003 - and Nadia still looks good.

Nadia the Horse Thief

Here is proof positive that Nadia is stealing trace minerals from the long-suffering martyr horse, Ali. Now that we have evidence, we plan to prosecute to the full extent of civil and criminal law. Good thing Judy got a new horse - they hang horse thieves, don't they?

Judy and I took the Girls up to the Reserve today (June 11,2002). Pretty nice day for "foggy and 63 degrees", eh?

I've been remiss in updating Nadia's portfolio, so today (April 8) I went down and took some pictures while Nadia acted like a heathen child in the round pen. She was moving pretty fast most of the time, but these are the ones that were best focussed - note that I don't claim that any of them are actually *in* focus!

Over President's Day weekend, Judy and I drove up to Weed, at the base of Mt. Shasta, to pick up Judy's new mare, Nadia (I think that's how it's spelled). We met Nadia and Robbie, her breeder, at 9 AM and had looked Nadia over and loaded her in the trailer by 9:30. Not bad when you consider that Nadia's first trailering experience was earlier that morning. These first few pictures are of Robbie, Nadia and Judy, just as N got out of the trailer - amazingly calm, by my lights. Robbie and Judy examined her pretty closely, then took her for a short walk to stretch a little.

After Nadia had been allowed to stretch a little, Robbie suggested that she get back in the trailer. Hmmm. Nadia walked right up to it, then started considering her options. Judy and Robbie allowed this to continue for, oh, 30 seconds. Then Robbie stepped into the trailer and offered her a handful of alfalfa. Nadia is a pasture horse and isn't usually fed alfalfa - and that was all it took - she would have ridden on the roof of the trailer if she could eat that stuff! We took off down the road and had an uneventful (boring by Doone) ride home.

We got back to The Ranch about 4:30. Nadia unloaded calmly, but was a little concerned when there were still no other horses around. Judy led her up to the barn where she felt a little more comfortable. She's now in the end stall, where Bow used to be, trying to fit in with the extremely interested neighbors.