On Monday, Rex turned 8. Yes, I know I'm late posting about this... but! Better late than never, and it allows me to tie in a little "Throwback Thursday" with the post honouring him.
As the house hunt has (finally) officially begun, we came across a house in the listings a couple of weeks ago that we really loved. I could already imagine watching our horses in the field while I shelled peas in the kitchen sink (yes, I know, very specific!). Since we're pretty early on, we don't have all of our down payment saved yet so we were brainstorming which of our possessions we could sell to come up with it. Of course, the horses came up (in jest!). I explained, of course, that the horse market isn't "like that" and that my horses, in the grand scheme of things, aren't really worth that much. Rex, particularly, who is little more than a beautiful pasture puff, is worth very little to anyone... except me.
For eight years, I've scolded him when he tries to bite, scolded him when he tries to kick the trimmer, scolded him when he chases the broodmares... okay, I do a lot of scolding. But there's a lot of good, too. He knows just when I need a pocket pony to come and give me a snuggle in the pasture (since Bronwyn is way too busy and important for that stuff these days). He helped my heart heal when we lost Angel. In fact, even if he is nothing more than a beautiful pasture puff for eighteen more years, that's perfectly okay.
So in honour of Rexy Perplexy's birthday, I wanted to share with you eight pictures - so you, too, can appreciate his beautiful uselessness. Then I came across more than eight and thought... what the heck, it's my blog and I do what I want! :) Enjoy.
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| Spring 2006 |
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| Summer 2006 |
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| Winter 2008 (Apparently I hated him when he was a yearling because I have pretty much ZERO pictures of him in 2007) |
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| Winter 2009 |
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| Spring 2009 |
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| Fall 2009 |
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| Spring 2010 |
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| Summer 2010 |
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| Summer 2011 |
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| Fall 2011 |
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| Summer 2013 |
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| Summer 2013 |
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| Winter 2014 |
He's so beautiful! Happy belated birthday, Rex!
ReplyDeleteHappy 8th, Rex!*
ReplyDelete*I know, I know, I just popped up out of nowhere... Oops! I discovered your blog about a week ago (there's nothing like being 5 years late to the party) when looking for, you guessed it, information for plus-sized riders. I've been catching up on your old posts (and dying to comment, but of course since they were all years and years ago to everyone but me that doesn't exactly work!) and I just want to say a very heartfelt THANK YOU for sharing your journey and your insights. I've been longing to get back into riding but was putting it off as one of the many things I thought would have to "wait on my weight." Reading your blog has encouraged me so much and I've actually begun to dare to think that riding again is a dream I can have NOW.
BABY!!! So cute!
ReplyDeleteI can't believe he is 8!!!!
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