Colorado Belted Galloway Farm

We visited with Rene and Tom this morning. Wow, they have quite the array of animals to keep themselves busy. 

This sign shows a few examples, but she also breeds cats, has goats, dogs, alpacas, a beautiful Morgan horse and lots of Belties. 

 

We had a perfect beautiful morning for the visit. She also has a very friendly Highlander pictured above. Now, we are headed to Estes for a brief mini vacation and hiking. 

 

 

Colorado Horse Park

  We are traveling without the big truck and camper this time. Feels strange going from the F350 to a Kia!  

Being from Kentucky we had to stop by the largest Horse Park west of the Mississippi. 

It is a nice spot. The jumps in the arena are quite different from Stadium Jumping at Ky Horse Park. Really interesting!

We have a beautiful morning for these pictures and the place to ourself. Now on to the Belted Galloway Farm visit at RT Camelot Ranch. A Beautiful day for photos. It's been since fall of last year since we were on the road to visit Beltie farms. Good to be "back in the saddle" again. Pun intended. 

 

Great Lakes Belted Galloway Field Day In Harrodsburg Kentucky

We are enjoying this beautiful day. It doesn't get much better than this.

Jon speaking and meeting in Washington D.C.

Here he is speaking to the group. 

Here he is meeting with Ann Mills USDA

I'm sure he enjoying the travel to D.C. 

Jon is in Washington D.C.

Im "holding down the snowy farm" while he is gone. It's beautiful snowy and sunny here today.

 He is meeting all the state Leopld winners.  

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Harrod's creek is still frozen.

Lots of deer track in the snow this morning and cat paws on the barn porch

Makes me want to kayak "just around the river/creek bend"

The Magic Mile

The end of my birthDAY we made it to the NASCAR races at the Magic mile.  We had planned to camp at the New Hampshire race facility and what an awesome facility it is!  The shower building is just awesome - better that some other campgrounds we have stayed at and we were within walking distance of the track and festivities.  We set up camp, ate dinner and prepared to partake in the activities.

Pictured below are from the 5 K race that proceeded the parade of haulers.

The "mascot"

below is the upper hill above our camp area - I have never seen so many camp areas and campers packed into a place.

Jon and I enjoyed the parade of haulers.  This pic has "Ford Racing" for our son that works as a mechanic at Ford

After this it is a quick trip back home.  We have some visitors coming to the farm on Thursday, so we need to get back and catch up a bit.  A friend of mine says that we "don't let much grass grow under our feet" and I guess it is true.  Jon and I do stay busy, but we do also like lush thick grass for the cattle- tee hee!

New Hampshire

September 19th, my birthday, we visited Hilltop Farm in New Hampshire.  The land for these Belties is much like the land at our house with slopes and yet lots of green pastures.  I always enjoy seeing the calves and there was a new young one on the farm here.

This view is looking down from the driveway - What a beautiful site to sit in the house and see during the downtime in the day!

This little one is hungry!  While her mom enjoys the grass, the calf enjoyed a snack too.

What a nice barn, feeding pad and look at the winter feed they have ready. 

There is always one in every crowd that wants a bit of attention!