The Horse's Corral
Welcome to my 'horse central'! Here I will introduce you to my horses (with pictures, yay!) and their stories and go over the horse book for kids that I've written.
Colletta
This is the 'oldest' horse that I own. She is 9 years old, a Morgan/Arab mix, and is about 15.2 hands in height (a 'hand' being 4 inches). She is the only one I can currently ride, and although she sometimes gives me trouble she really isn't too bad as far as that goes. She is rather anti-social and doesn't prefer to hang around people as much as the others do.
Violet
Violet is three years old as of June '09. She is a full-blooded Arab and is Colletta's half-sister (they have the same mother). She's a funny horse because she absolutely LOVES attention, unlike Colletta, and it took me a little while to get used to her friendliness when I had been used to Colletta's cold shoulder for all these years. Her coat is kind of funny too--when we bought her as an 8-week-old filly she was a plain bay, with straight brown and black. But over the last couple of years silver-grey hairs have started blending in with the brown...it's pretty darned cool.
Shiska
Yay, a new picture! The last one was terrible. Anyway, Shiska is Colletta's foal, born in 07. She is a year old as of July 13, 08. Whereas Violet is very sweet, easy-going, and eager-to-please, Shiska is rather more bull-headed. She likes to have her own way more often, so we tend to butt heads sometimes when she decides 'I don't wanna' to something I want her to do.
Good Horsekeeping
Above is the title of the book for horse care that I am nearly done writing. Basically, to plead my way out of doing regular grammer for my junior year I promised Mom that I would write a book about horses. Well, it grew bigger than just an assignment, and once I am finished I hope to get it published.
Basically it is a book that is aimed towards younger kids, and covers basic horse care. I drew the illustrations myself, and typed up the text by drawing off of the information I have gleaned over the years of being obsessed with horses. It's a slender book, about 25-30 pages printed on one side of normal paper, but it covers quite a bit of information.