Meet Ruby Rose...

So we closed on our house Dec 29th and now it's Jan 11th and we're horse owners!! Larry and I wanted to officially own the home before horse shopping... Totally a God thing. We expected horse-shopping to take MUCH longer and are very thankful it didn't. Ruby was the first horse we were able to look at. She sounded so good and then after requesting pictures we thought she looked great too.

We went to visit her yesterday during a winter weather warning, which was silly...roads and weather were fine- just COLD! Another family was supposed to come for a second look that afternoon, but had a bad rep of not showing. The seller wasn't too confident in their plans. We arrived at 1:30pm, she was expecting the others around 1pm, but hadn't heard from them. They called after we'd been there 30-40 minutes. She didn't answer her phone and said she'd wait for us to decide before calling the others back.

I'll fess up I felt BAD and guilty, then the seller told us they first saw Ruby 4 weeks ago, H-E-L-L-O, that's plenty of time to 1) come back and 2) decide if you wanted her.

So, after a test ride by Kaitlyn and her instructor's daughter we were confident she was meant for us.

Tonight we went to the barn to visit again, and brought her a blanket too. It fit her great and will come in handy when the high is just in the single digits later in the week!

Ruby Rose is an Appaloosa, she's 14.2hh and is about 15-16 years old. So far we've learned she really likes her food, we may have to call her Miss Piggy! We also learned tonigh, she is not phased by toddlers brushing and toodling around her...she is marvelous with the kids!