Sunshine

So the lady from Silver City finally made it this morning. She ended up not trying to navigate the dirt roads last night and stayed at a motel in Bloomfield for the night. The exciting part about her being here: she brought her puppy! Such a cutie pie. It's a little black and white chihuahua mix named Sunshine, and just a bundle of adorable. She's about 4 months old, so just a couple weeks younger than Annie. At first, Ms. Annie was a little perplexed about this little wriggly thing, but by lunch time they were sharing a toy and playing with each other. So proud of Annie today - she is so gentle with the other littler puppy! There is obvious self-handicapping going on and Annie will flop onto her back and let Sunshine grab at and shake her collar.

It was a good day today, introducing the lady to all the horses (and the donkeys!) and also showing her the training we do with each of them. She has a significant amount of experience training horses, often ones that have been mis-handled and have issues, but she's getting older now and is looking for a horse that won't be too much energy for her. Her belief is that she wants a horse that's less than 6 years old, since that was the age she was told you should definitely start a horse to train them to drive/ride -- but she seems somewhat willing to take a chance on the older horses. She was actually very attracted to my darling Miss June, even though she is 14 years old, just because she's such a calm horse with a good disposition and plenty of confidence with her many years of life experience. I think she will probably end up adopting Elmo though. When she initially came up, she was interested in Elmo and Barney, but Barney's a bit too much horse for her to start as a project right now. Elmo would probably be a good match for her though. Eager to learn and also would so very much appreciate the spoiling and doting I'm sure she will be providing to whichever horse she chooses. The other horse she's interested in is Mr. Batman. He's going to be a really cool horse, and he's such a sweetheart with people (other horses, not so much).

In other news, Chuny is leaving tomorrow... Super short notice since her friend just messaged her this week that they were going to be in Dallas this weekend -- so Chuny is catching a ride to Albuquerque with Marie (the lady from Silver City), and will probably take the bus to Dallas. Seems like we will be getting a couple more volunteers coming early next week though, which will be very helpful for husbandry chores.