Painted Trails Farm

06/03/2025

Some of the mares finishing breakfast.

10/06/2022

DOES ANYONE HERE ACTUALLY STILL EAT Snowball Cookies 😋😍
Ingredients: 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature real butter is essential for this cookie 1 1/2 cups confectioners’ sugar, divided 2 tsp. vanilla extract 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
FULL RECIPE HERE: https://buff.ly/3fq6Uix

08/29/2020

I've neglected this page for too long, so I've decided to first the four legged residents of Painted Trails Farm. Meet Newton (Gentlemen Prefer Whiskey) our blue-eyed gelding by Gentlemen Send Roses x Zippy Ki Yea (Ki). He's a super easy going attention hog who loves to explore!

09/25/2019

This is what happens when I go into the pasture to take pictures.

01/31/2019

This looks interesting! It's in Monterey County and doesn't require a teaching credential. Starts at $18.50/hour, 10-20 hours/week, some weekends, Bachelor's Degree preferred. Holly Andrus Harris do you have friends who would be interested (or want to apply yourself)?

Employment

02/13/2017

I was going to post something about one of my favorite horses, Banana, but am embarrassed to say that I couldn't find any recent pictures of her. Oops! So...I will post new pictures and something about her in a few days. She was really cute as a baby!

02/11/2016

Since I wrote a post about Symphony, a former IHSA show draw, I guess the next horse to feature has to be Ki (Zippy Ki Yea). She is a Solid Paint Bred (Breeding Stock) mare by Street Legal and has a blue eye. At the IHSA shows, she was a good draw, helping many riders win their class. As a broodmare, Ki has produced two beautiful Gentlemen Send Roses foals for us, Darla (Roses from the South) and Newton (Gentlemen Prefer Whisky).

01/28/2016

I have been neglecting this page for too long. So, I think that it's time to start featuring some of our horses (and, possibly, other non-human inhabitants).
Meet Symphony, AKA Norfleets Symphony, our oldest and longest equine member at Painted Trails Farm. She turned 26 this year!
Symphony was a western pleasure/hunter under saddle mare before we got her, placing sixth at the APHA World Championship Show in 2-year-old HUS before pulling her stifle at that show.
She was a popular draw, for a time, at the IHSA shows, once getting shown 7 times in one day!
We LOVE quirky, "tailless," Symphony!

06/21/2015

Breeding season is officially over for us with 2/3 success. Cherry (Sexy Chexy Nic) is in foal to Like A Diamond for a full sibling to Premier Diamond. Darla (Roses from the South) is in foal to Mechanic. Wish us luck!!