Mountain Mist Farm

10/31/2023

Warm sunny day = nap time

10/28/2023

Happy Fall

10/25/2023

Elamara

10/12/2023

https://photos.app.goo.gl/JGDnwc4iEeTyj58v6

2 new items · Memory by Jennie Silva

10/05/2023

Ieshiah 1991 - 2023
She loved the little ones, my challenge to those who knew her attach a picture

10/03/2023

An afternoon with Ieshiah...

09/30/2023

Happy Saturday morning

09/17/2023

Ieshiah # has started so many on the equestrian journey

08/14/2023

We had an audience today...

08/09/2023

Rainy day....

07/10/2023

When we are with our Equines they make our world filled beauty and color...

07/04/2023

Happy 4th of July!

06/16/2023

Yourrie such a sweetheart...

06/11/2023

Finally a sunny day...

06/07/2023

Group lessons times getting set for July space is limited save your spot....

06/02/2023

Sabatar's get hanging out during the storm today...they are half siblings

05/12/2023

It's about building a connection...

05/08/2023

Group lessons are forming now...Have you always wanted to learn to ride a horse but never had
the opportunity?
Have you had a bad experience with horses that you want to
overcome?
We have the supportive environment and experience to help
you reach your goals and overcome your fears.

05/05/2023

2nd trailer ride happy to be home...

04/22/2023

Fyi if anyone is looking these guys they came for a visit to the farm.

04/07/2023

Copied but a true analogy
Recipe for raising a “horse girl”…….

You bring them home from the hospital and instead of keeping them home you let them breathe in the smell of horses every chance you get….

Then at a few months old you prop them up in the saddle and hold them there to just sit in the saddle….

When they are 3 they say they can’t pick up the horse’s hoof …you help them but then tell them they need to finish themselves…..

You let them lead the 23 yr old faithful gelding because leading the big horse makes them feel so proud….

At 4 yrs old you teach them that the horse depends on them for water, hay, grain….Dinner might be almost ready in the house, but ponies eat first …..

At 5 years old, when she falls off for the first time, you check to make sure nothings broken, wipe her tears, then you give her a leg up and tell her to get it done, because you KNOW she’s a great rider…..

At 10 years old when she doesn’t place in her class at the horse show and she’s falling apart, you ask her if her horse worked hard for her, and then you tell her that to her horse she is #1, and to keep riding, because her horse depends on her……

At 12 years old she comes home from school and tells you another kid said something mean at school to someone she knows. She then tells you she told that kid to shut their mouth and keep it to themselves…. Then she walked off with the kid that was being made fun of……

At 13 years old her friends at the barn are as close as siblings……they support her in her wins and her falls…..the barn has created relationships that are thicker than blood….

At 15 years old her first “boyfriend” breaks up with her ….. you can tell she is upset so you both head to the barn. She wraps her arms around her horse’s neck, breathes him in, and the tears flow. But you can see that resolve emerge when she’s cantering around the ring…. She tells you her horse is better than that boy any day.

You heard others say over the years…..

“Horses are too expensive!”
“She’s going to get sick from all the germs.”
“She’s going to fall off and get hurt.”
“She spends too much time at the barn.”

When she is a young woman and leaves your home, off on her next adventure, you head out to the barn. You thank her horses, you breathe them in, you wrap your arms around them because ….

Horses helped you to create a confident, self-assured, responsible, kind, nurturing, outdoors-loving, tough as nails, throws her shoulders back and stands tall, strong woman.

To all the parents raising “horse girls” keep going, you are giving them more than just riding lessons…..
Written by Kara LaBrie❤️

03/26/2023

Sunday funday....

03/25/2023

03/15/2023

The snow is back...really....

03/02/2023

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03/01/2023

Fresh Snow

02/02/2023

MY LITTLE FARM ❤
“Farm work doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t make you anything. It reveals you.
There’s gym strong and then there’s farm strong. They’re mutually exclusive. The toughest women you’ll ever meet spend their days on a farm.
There are more uses for twine than you can possibly imagine. You can tie up a hole in a slow feeder, fashion a tail strap for a horse’s blanket, mend a broken fence and use it as a belt.
“Well that certainly didn’t go as planned,” is one thing you’ll say quite a bit.
Control is a mere illusion. The thought that you have any, at any given time, is utterly false.
Sometimes sleep is a luxury. So are lunch and dinner. And brushing your hair.
If you’ve never felt your obliques contract, then you’ve never tried stopping an overly full wheelbarrow of horse manure from tipping over sideways. Trust me, you’ll find muscles that you never knew existed on the human skeleton to prevent this from happening.
When one of the animals is ill, you’ll go to heroic lengths to minimize their discomfort.
Their needs come first. In summer heat and coldest winter days. Clean water, clean bed, and plenty of feed. Before you have your first meal, they all eat.
When you lose one of them, even though you know that day is inevitable, you still feel sadness, angst and emotional pain from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. And it’s a heaviness that lingers even though you must regroup and press on.
You’ll cry a lot. But you’ll never live more fully. You’ll remain present no matter what because you must. There is no other option.
You’ll ask for so many miracles and hold out hope until the very last.
You will, at least once, face-plant in the manure pile. You’ll find yourself saying things like, “we have maybe twenty minutes of daylight left to git ‘er done” whilst gazing up at a nonspecific place in the sky.
You’ll become weirdly obsessive about the weather.
You’ll go out in public wearing filthy clothes and smelling of dirt, sweat and p**p. People will look at you sideways and krinkle their noses but you won’t care.
Your entire day can derail within ten seconds of the rising sun.
You can wash your coveralls. They won’t look any cleaner, but they will smell much nicer.
Farm work is difficult in its simplicity.
You’ll always notice just how beautiful sunrises and sunsets really are.
Should you ever have the opportunity to work on a farm, take the chance! You will never do anything more satisfying in your entire life.”

01/01/2023

Happy New year....this year's goal...more time with the Equines...

12/26/2022

Finished winter fencing repairs from Friday's storm wanted to give a big thank you to everyone whom stepped in and helped to get the farm back to its usual working areas. Winter comes different challenges.

12/17/2022

Happy Snow Day...

10/30/2022

Another picture of the beautiful lighting...

10/30/2022

Such a beautiful day... Eva getting a carrot...

10/09/2022

Time for an adventure..

09/25/2022

Morning helpers...

09/24/2022

Windy days make for great pictures...

08/26/2022

Thankful, ponies are in prior to the thunderstorm and rain....we sure need this it's been a dry summer.

08/23/2022

Worked on the footings blending the old with the new.

08/22/2022

08/18/2022

Smiles...

08/11/2022

The beginning is so sweet