A Horse Show Excursion
On Friday Amanda and I ventured out to a local open horse show to add some experiences to both Amanda and JJ’s repertoire. Amanda is taking JJ to the Big E 4-H horse show in September and we needed to…
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Celebrating Alex
Yesterday, Alex turned 23. In May, he graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Rhode Island with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineer, Nuclear minor. Alex has interviewed with Dominion Nuclear who owns the Millstone Power Plant. He did 2…
Quinn graduated from college
At 20 years old, Quinn has graduated from Eastern CT State University with a double major in Computer Science and Data Science.in only 6 semesters. By living at home and competing for multiple scholarships, this one done incurring no debt…
Did you ride today?
The high today was like 25 degrees Fahrenheit. Last night and through the morning we got 9″ of snow. The low this evening is a negative 2, with a real feel of negative 20 with wind gusts of 40 mph.…
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…
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…
Pine Tree Endurance Ride 2025
This post is the story of our week at the Pinetree Endurance ride this year. The post was delayed by life happenings and the lack of photos (we didn’t take that many and the ride photographer was also busy with…
Windham County 4-H fair 2025
On Thursday evening Amanda and Quinn went to set up at the 2025 Windham 4-H Fair. Quinn is now aged out of 4-H but still stays involved and helping out. Friday afternoon Amanda and Quinn drove the goats over to…
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…
Firecracker Endurance Ride 2025
Last weekend we went to the Maine Firecracker Endurance Ride. We drove up to Waterford, ME on Friday and rode 30 miles on Saturday. I put on my big girl panties and rode SA Fiona, Amanda rode JJ and Alex…