Hi Snaffle Squad and Welcome to Laughing Mare

Thanks for the welcome, TheSanffleSquad! I'm a little different from most of you: my goals are in driven dressage. Its the same but different.

I live here.

As an introduction to your facebook blogging group, I'll tell you a little bit. My name is Cara. I live in the mountains in Northern California with my two Gotland pony mares, Yndi and Pepper. I am having serious training issues. Moving to the mountains last fall created a perfect storm, and then we had a very severe winter. and then, and then, and then.

The Girls in Winter.

My first big goal is the get the Carriage Association of America Driver proficiency Level 1. I have to drive a 20 meter circle in both directions. To the right is good, to the left is The Spiral of Death. I belong to the Northern California Driving Club and the Gotland Pony Preservation Society. I volunteer frequently for Carriage Driving Events. It takes many volunteers to run a CDE, especially for Marathon, the driven version of cross country.

Pepper waits for Breakfast.

I have house rabbits, a bonded pair: Kasey and Pierre, and I have a foster rabbit for The Rabbit Haven: Carisma, AKA Rizzy. I do some volunteering for The Rabbit Haven. Then there is my little dog Lydia, a housecat named Whiskers, and a barn cat named Bob. Bob was feral when he arrived, but totally domesticated when he emerged from his acclimation cage two weeks later.

Lydia

My husband is semi-retired and my son is 21 and lives in Sacramento. My Dad lives near Reno, NV and I visit when I can, which is where I am now. I will have to add photos from my phone later.(I just
figured out how to do it with Google Photos.)

Yndi, rhymes with Windy.

I have a handmade business making art saddlepads, so I have a lot happening at the same time. I am the artist, the purchasing department, the shipping and receiving department, the marketing department and manufacturing department. I am the entire sales force, and last but not least, the janitorial department. I am enrolled in the Handmade Titan University and the Pinterest Academy. #zbesties

Sometimes I wish I was an octopus with eight hands to get everything done!