New Beginnings

On a day when the high temperature is in the twenties and snow is in the air it’s hard to believe that Spring will be here soon.  Spring brings with it the promise of new life and new beginnings.  Foals and calves are born, flowers pop up from once frozen ground, and tree buds open to show us this years leaf crop.

Yesterday, we brought in the yearlings we’ll be running this year.  That represents a new cattle beginning for us this year.  Last years yearlings did their job of growing and getting bred.  They’ll go on to become mother cows bringing new life to this world each spring.  I went to the ranch that raised the cattle we bought to help them haul the cattle to our place.  It was an opportunity to get a second look at the cattle we were purchasing and, even better, an opportunity to meet more of the people that cared for the cow herd and raised the calves.  That’s where I met Kathy and her husband Ron.

Kathy and I got to talking about horses….imagine that!  She has been riding her whole life.  She was getting along fine but, attended a clinic given by a well known clinician who traveled to our area.  She said it was like starting over.  I know what she means!  When Amy and I first met Ray Hunt, he could have been speaking Latin for all we understood.  Kathy and I got to talking about how interesting it was that even an older horse could understand what we were saying when we got onto speaking their language.  It was like a new beginning in our relationship!  Kathy was experiencing that with her older gelding.  The new language she was learning made sense to her gelding and he was liking the way she was talking to him.  It doesn’t matter how old we are or the age of the horse we are working with, it’s never too late for a new beginning!