Milk Test results – 2025
All the does are dry and we are waiting for kidding season to start in March. In 2025, we freshened 7 does and by the late summer, had the milkers reduced to just 4 remaining. For 2026, we are freshening…
Rob
Distance Riding 101
Once upon a time (in 2024) at an endurance ride camp far, far away (in Maine), a group of riders began to contemplate bringing back a CTR or endurance ride to the CT/RI area. Somehow, I (Rob) was conned into…
Turbo
7/12/2013-11/19/2025Today we said a hard goodbye to Turbo. He joined the family as a little puppy and lived his whole life on our farm where he chased the horses and barked at the neighbors. Turbo served as a 4-H project…
Welcome to Sands Marabon aka Milo
With only 3 horses in the barn, we have been considering an addition or two, but weren’t looking seriously. About a week and a half ago, we found out distance riding friend Diana Murphy was considering selling her Arabian gelding,…
Sawfish Lamanchas 2025 Linear Appraisal
This afternoon we were a host herd for linear appraisal (LA). If you aren’t familiar with the LA program from ADGA, you can read about it here. This was our second time to do LA and we had one other herd…
Mustang Memorial Endurance Ride 2025
We finally went to New Jersey for a distance riding competition. This is our 11th season doing AERC and ECTRA competitions and we had never competed in New Jersey. So Friday, I (Rob), Alex, and Amanda skipped work and school…
Big E 2025
Another exhausting but amazing 4 days at the Big E has come and gone. With Quinn aged-out of 4-H, Amanda is the only youth left showing goats. Adding to the madness, I (Rob) returned from a work trip at 1130…
Blandford Fair Goat Show 2025
Another weekend, another goat show. Today, (9/1/25) we went to the Blandford, MA Fair. We attended last year for the first time. While this show is a 2 hr drive away, it is sanctioned and it’s nice to see a…
Goat shows – Heath and Brooklyn
Last Sunday (8/17/25) we headed to the Heath, MA Fair for the first time. They have an ADGA sanctioned show we wanted to check out and we really enjoyed this event. Amanda was headed to camp in VT, so Anna…
THE BESTEST PONY EVER
This post is in memory of Hedgehog Hollows American Eagle aka Huey 4 In May 2013, we moved into our current house. Amanda turned 3. A good friend told us about a Dartmoor farm in MD that was downsizing and…