Hay Delivery

                                           

 Greg Kearns of Blue Moon Carriages and the best hay delivery service. He got us the most beautiful hay all the way from Glenwood Springs, Colorado and made sure to get it here before the rain and hail! Thank you Greg and thank you for all of the generous donations that helped to pay for this hay!

Greg has the most wonderfully engineered unloading system that includes ramps and chains and pulleys. This helps to get the hay unloaded and stack it neatly for storage. 

This is Greg making sure that everything is going smoothly. He is the best of the best!

The front end of the stack is being unloaded. The operation went smoothly and took less than an hour so Greg could get home to his beautiful family.

All stacked and delivered, just waiting for the volunteers to get it into the barn before the storm!

This is the unloading mechanism used to unload the hay. Before leaving, Greg thought he would put a call into his friend Eric to come help get the hay under cover before the storm.

Here is Eric with the Bobcat and its hay moving claws!

Eric uses this magnificent machine to pick up a dozen bales of hay at a time! Eric came right away from Colorado Springs to help out. You can see the storm clouds quickly gathering in the background.

This machine can reach the top of the hay and can pick up an entire section off of the top. 

The storm is building so the hay is headed for the shed!

Still runnin' before the storm.

Moving as fast as he can to get the hay put up.

Volunteer Hunter came to help on his last day in town before heading to Louisiana for the summer.

THANK YOU GREG, ERIC AND HUNTER!

Tree Removal

This winter our strange weather took a tree. Colton used his ax man skills to chop the tree down and remove the tree down for firewood. Colton walked away with all legs and arms intact. Yay!

The Edwards Foundation welcomed two wonderful new ducks to the family! The ducks names are Darkwing and Max.

Getting familiar and comfortable with their new home and new friends! They have so much fun swimming and walking around their new home!

We love to see animals find a new hope, live a safe and long life! Be apart of this change! Come visit the ducks!!

Girls, Cookies, Great help!! Troop 61226

These wonderful  Girl Scouts came around to help with chores.  They cleaned stalls, fed the animals and gave lots of TLC to all.  They went on a walk with the animals and then came back and gave more loving to the dogs!!  What a great group.

These scouts donated all of the cookies that they did not get sold to us.  We have already earned $75 towards our hay purchase from these delicious cookies.  Come visit and pick up a box!

 

Molly the Zebu loves to get some extra attention!  

Gathering eggs right from the nest! 

A kiss from Elizabeth!

Stage stop Nathan Detroit gets a little treat!

Bandit enjoying a walk in the forest!

Of course there is always poo to be scooped!!

Special thank you to troop leader Tiffany for arranging this wonderful adventure! All of the animals loved being spoiled by your girls! Come back to visit soon!!

Core Knowledge Visits

 Field trip for both the animals and the students from Core Knowledge.

 After feeding the animals and cleaning the stalls students head out for a field trip

 First stop is for Toby to check out the new green grass

 Both Starbucks and Goldie agree the green grass is tasty

 After a grass snack the group heads out on an adventure

Oppenheimer Funds Volunteer Expo

 Volunteer Jay greets Oppenheimer employees and answers questions about volunteer opportunities.

 Oppenheimer ran a slide presentation during the open house showing their volunteers helping at non-profits.

 This brought back fond memories of a good time.

 All had a good, productive day.

Many of this crew stopped to say hello.
We hope to see many helpers from Oppenheimer Funds in the near future

Request to help Terolyn Horse Rescue save this big from the kill pen.

We are requesting help for Terolyn in raising funds to save this 16 hand gelding from the kill pen.  You can follow the fund raising progress on Terolyn Horse Rescue web site.  All contributions are tax deductible for this 501-3c rescue.