Trip to the Farm with Clydesdales

Tina loves horses. She tends to attract people that love horses too. Her farrier (the guy that takes care of the horses feet/shoes) is a pretty cool man. He is extremely knowledgeable, hardworking and unique. I say unique because he owns big horses, and a lot of them. Todd the farrier, has the big Budweiser type of horse but bigger. He has a great set up where he drives the horses with carriages, huge trailers, and even sleighs in the winter.

These horses are part of the draft breed, called Pertron. Please forgive me horse lovers out there, I am not too knowledgable when it comes to horses. I think the big draft horses are called Petron, Clydesdales and Belgiums.

Every once in awhile, Todd the farrier has to take a break and get out of dodge. Well that is where my wife comes in. Tina is so sweet that she volunteers as a "barn hand" to go feed these things twice a day while Todd is out of town. I enjoy going out there and helping her. I have never been one to shy away from good old fashioned thing called work. These pictures are not great but are just a couple from one of the 10 visits to the barn.

Picture of Tina sitting on a hay bail in one of the two barns.

This horse is so cool. It is black with one brown eye and one blue eye. In this picture it only has two red eyes. Probably the sweetest horse in the barn.

This white horse was something. His/Her name is Spider. Spider was a little concerned that this stranger was taking its picture. The first picture I took (below) spooked him a little bit because of the flash. The second picture that I took ended my fun with the camera. The horse went from this position (gulping water) to all fours off the ground spooked out of its mind to sprinting down the aisle toward me. After I changed my pants, we finished feeding the horses and called it a memory.