Three Musketeers

I was waiting to share the news until it was absolutely certain-- loading up in the trailer and traveling to their new homes is about as sure as you're going to get!

Hmm...who's leaving in that trailer?

The three crazies -- Louis, Zarvona, and Hammer!

Now that the three boys are gone, it's gotten a bit quieter around here. You wouldn't think that just three horses would make such a big difference, but it really does.

The quiet isn't going to last long though, we are getting 25+ more horses any day now! This Friday, Chuny (the Swiss jockey), Pat, and I are headed up to Bloomfield to help out with the processing (branding, gelding, etc.) of the newly caught mustangs. As soon as they've been vetted (Friday), they will be headed our way right afterwards. I'm guessing Monday at the earliest - assuming weekends still exist in civilization :) They have 34 horses, and we get to choose the ones we want to take (or more likely, see if we can pick out the ones we are pretty sure we DON'T want to take). It should be a pretty exciting day. It's been a couple weeks since I've been off the property!

On another exciting note, we harvested a cabbage from the garden today! We had 9 heads of cabbage, and I went out and harvested the largest one for dinner tonight. Freshly picked cabbage is absolutely delicious, even just plain! Very mild and crisp. We decided to make cole slaw -- yum!

 

John didn't get back from delivering the horses until about 8 PM, so Pat made dinner. Along with the coleslaw, she also cooked up some deer steaks. It was my first time having deer -- pretty tasty, thought I can't say I can tell the difference between meats...

Deer steak cut up... pre-seasoning/pounding/coating