Hoofprints in the Barn

We moved to Dry Valley in Nutrioso in Jan.of 1980. The house we bought overlooked Escudilla Mtn.and was on 3.65 acres. One problem...it did not have a barn. So Gary built one. I was impressed. It had 4 large stalls, a tack room, breeze way and a hay loft. Amazing really. I think he totally designed it as well. Over the six years we lived there, it was home to not only Billy, but Lacy, Nikki (the Arabian filly Eryn traded her beloved Brigette for before we left Oregon), Jasi, (the mare she traded Nikki for), Rocky, a big white stupid and very mean horse Krista had to have and we eventually hauled him all the way to Virginia, a black milk goat, a little miniature horse named Dolly,  an Angora goat named Lucy and her baby, Bo-Jangles. AND, it was in that barn that Fancy was born to Jasi on the coldest day in April of 1996, 3 months before we made the epic trip to Virginia. More on this later. . 

 Looking out from the living room to the pasture and beyond to Escudilla Mtn. 

The pasture bounded by electric fence 

 which was only too often vandalized by 
the local 200 member elk herd .