Camp makes us feel that we are 'back'!

Our summer camp was a huge success! Breanna, Ashley and Lizzie all enjoyed participating on their new ponies and with all their new stuff too! How neat to see them will complete kits and happy to be a part of the team again! This was Michael's first camp and he and Patches did great!
Thank you to everyone 'out there' for helping to make this possible!

Ashley now has a new pony!

Thanks to Fox River Valley Pony Club and Jennifer Rousseau, Herbie the Haflinger arrived at my barn last night - and made one little girl VERY happy!  Isn't he AWESOME!!!  Check out our photo page for more pictures; Bridget checking him out first, followed by his REAL rider, Ashley!  Out of the nightmare comes these wonderful moments.

Brody 6 weeks on; unbelievable!

Now that the healing has begun, it is unbelievable how quickly these major wounds are becoming minor!!!  Check out his buddies too; just a 'little' bigger!!  Of course, we all know who is boss!

Huntley's 'house' 30 days on...

Still rubble to clean up!

Corner of the surviving basement and rubble of the house behind.
Hill behind the house; used to be trees!

The barn........

What a difference 30 days make!

No bone showing on the foreleg, healing wounds!  We discovered a 'hole' inside her mouth, which would be why she wasn't eating!  She is eating now and we are crossing fingers that the pounds go back on.  

What a difference though!

SBPC Proudly Parades - we are back!

It was a great day for us!  Back on ponies and as a team after the madness of the last month!  Next parade we hope to have all our kids mounted again!  The parade theme was Hometown Heroes.  On the helmets it says 'Thank You Volunteers' and each rider is carrying a sandbag (filled with mailing peanuts...not sand!!).  Amazing that the tornado is already old news isn't it?!  For more pictures of the kids parading, visit our photos link from the homepage!

The Latest!!

Thank you to Timber Ridge Pony Club who sponsored our 'tornado' kids' camp fees this last weekend! Lizzie, Breanna and Ashley joined 2 other SBPC-ers and several TRPC kids at a FUN weekend away; to include a little schooling show! Lizzie's first show was with her new pony! Breanna and Ashley borrowed camp ponies and then, thanks to everyone's Pony Club spirit, were able to borrow Pony Clubber's ponies/horses for their clinic with Gegi Winslett!
Brody and Dixie are both 'coming along'. Dixie's big wound is healing so nicely (watch for pictures, coming soon), it is flat and finally getting to be a nice pink color, and her foreleg seems to be scarring over and maybe we won't have to shave bone after all! We are still having eating issues, so today the vet visits to sedate and check her mouth. We have some proudflesh under her chin and that is yet another little issue to deal with.......
This weekend we proudly parade at the Sturgis Falls Parade and this year, I can honestly say, I am prouder of our little team than ever before!
The gifts and donations keep coming and we are filled with gratitude! We have been in touch with the Iowa Equine Rescue & Awareness League, who will happily share much needed items after the flood before we get a sale together, so you aren't just helping us, you are helping many, many horse people in Iowa!
Thank you!

Bridget