The Jackass Fairy Pays a Visit

Tonka starts barking at daylight. I can smell a skunk and think that is what he is barking at. It's not and he won't be quiet. I get up and see pea soup fog, no horses in the barn waiting for their breakfast.

But I do see two donkeys. And where are my horses. The Jackass fairy must have come during the night and brought these  donkeys and took my beautiful horses. #@&*^!

 I call them up. Nothing..... I go out to the neighbors pasture where the donkeys live and there they are, so scared that they have their heads buried in knee deep grass. They don't want to come home. There are horse eating donkeys over here

 I halter Miami and bring her back to the barn. Flash comes with her. I go back for Missy and the other two follow. I get them fed and try to decide how to remove the donkeys. Drive them over with a whip??? No, that's liable to take all day. Bucket of pears, yes that should work. And it did. They like pears!

I get every body in the right pasture and let my guys out. They run to the fence and make sure the mean little tiny donkeys are at their house.
Another morning in paradise!

Shiny and Sparkly Gypsy Jewels

Gypsy Jewels

8x8 gallery wrap acrylic

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

                                                                                                                                - Andre Gide

I just can't seem to stay away from my metallic paint for very long when painting these ponies. The grayish days of winter seem to call for some shininess. I love the way the sky sparkles in Gypsy Jewels.

I also can't seem to get away from doctoring real ponies.

My darling Miami has had rain rot for months and though it's getting better I'm still scrubbing and medicating her skin. She now has has pink spots on her white spots. If that shows up in a painting you know where it came from. :)

Miami and Missy both have white line, a bacterial type of infection in their hooves. So more scrubbing, picking and medication on eight hooves. I am always glad they don't have more feet by the time I'm done. And with all that scrubbing they should both be shiny and sparkly, but they are just kinda grumpy.

The High Maintenance Girls

And Flash, well he's healthy as a horse.

Chasing Twilight

Chasing Twilight is a 6x6 acrylic on wood panel. It comes framed and ready to hang.

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It is cold outside! We are getting like many parts of the country usually cold weather. I thought in the fall about getting a heater for my stock tank but decided against it as I can usually take a hammer and break the ice. Not this year. The water is frozen solid.

I am reduced to using a smaller tub and putting water in it several times a day and taking hot water out to mix in the horse’s food and offer them a drink of it. Needless to say I cannot get one locally now but will have one before next winter.

I am thankful as I know the horses are for the nice new barn we have that is large enough for all five of them.

Star Horse painting

Star Horse
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This contemporary spirit horse flies across an aqua and turquoise sky complete with copper stars in this lovely original painting. Another in the Spirit Horse series this art glimmers with metallic copper against a delicious chocolate brown.

Will arrive ready to hang on your wall or suitable for sitting on a shelf, desk or anywhere.


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Putting Up the Tepee part 2

Dreams Of Flying

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The decision had been made and the wind had started picking up. We had the tepee down in minutes. After more careful measurements for the tripod and where to place the ties the tripod goes back up. With all the men folk that had wandered in all the poles were in place very quickly. It was already looking better.

Bundling the tepee to the riser pole.

Tying off the rope.



The riser pole goes back up. We untie it and stretch it around the poles. After lacing it up it looks amazing! I am so thankful to my friends and family for all their help.



And here it is up on the hill.
All in all it took me more time to figure out how to put that "Buy Now" button on my blog than to raise the tepee. So y'all use and stay tuned for more of the saga and photos of the interior.

Springtime and the New Puppy

Spring is trying real hard to get here. After a week or so of awesome weather we are getting snow and ice. It took a hammer to get the chicken coop door open this morning.

I got my new paint and supplies and have not finished one new painting. My bad.

Spring chores and horses begging to be ridden have kept me out of the studio. It is impossible for me to stay indoors after waiting all winter to play outside.

My baby chicks have hatched. Out of 14 eggs only 5 chicks survived. Not a very good hatch. Hope they are not all roosters. I may have to do one more batch. I am trying to get a dozen hen and now only have 7. The hawks have taken two since fall. I think this is fair. Hope they don't start taking more than their share.

I finally got a new puppy! I have been looking on and off for over a year. I lost my wolf last fall. He was 10 years old. My chow/ husky mix is old as dirt, 14. That is about 150 in big dog years.

The pup is German Shepard/mastiff and pit bull. The parents are very nice dogs. He is 7 weeks old and about 15 pounds. He seems very smart and is catching on to house training and farm life quickly. But...

I don't know if it is my memory or what, but I don't remember my newborns getting me up as many times during the night as this pup does. Last night we were only up twice, a new record. He doesn't have a name yet. I'm thinking of giving him a Native American name. Right now I'm stuck on "Whines All Night". I need a nap!

Dinner and a Show

I was sitting last night having dinner minding my own business. My step brother came in and said there is a problem with one of the bulls. Then he said, "You know the green plastic chair we had down at the pond.

Nuff said.

I leave my half eaten dinner and head for the pasture.

I bust out laughing when I saw T-bone. Here is a pretty good size bull calf with his head sticking through the arm rest of this molded plastic lawn chair, his nose pressed against the seat.

I go get a bucket of feed ( my answer to everything) and pour it in the trough.

T-bone wasn't able to eat for the chair being in his way, but I was able to grab ahold of the chair legs. My plan was to gently push it up and try to slide it over his horns. His plan was to throw his head up and spin around. I didn't see any point in hanging on too long. We repeated this one time and decided not to play like this anymore.

The calf been fed only an hour before and it was almost completely dark so I left him and hoped it was off by morning. It was. Happily we had no rodeo today. Sadly it was too dark to take pictures and my dinner got cold.

I know your asking right about now what the horses are doing during all this.

All five were lined up quietly at the fence watching. Well not entirely quietly. I heard some whispers, shh... let's listen.

What is the servant doing?

Stop laughing.

Is that some sort of cow saddle?

I hope she doesn't think she is going to do that to me.

I think they call that reining.

But where is she trying to sit?

That's not reining.

Those humans sure are funny.

Those cows sure are funny.

T-bone is the calf in the Mad Cow painting. I did this mixed media art with apparently some sort of premonition. I found him the next morning bawling his head off, trapped between the round pen, a fence and a shed. He was mad then, but not as mad as he was this time.

Mad Cow is a 11" x 14 " mixed media painting for sale for $40 on my etsy shop lancasterart.

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20110980

Remember a portion of all sales goes to the feed store.