Mustang Prairie Ranch

Swiss Miss (Sis)

2011-05-28T20:29:00.000-07:00

Well, I can now walk around Sis and brush down her legs and take her halter on and off while in the corral. I really do not work with her much, but for the little amount of time spent with her she is doing very well. I can pony her in the round pen and will get brave and go out and about when and if the weather ever gets better.

Rescue BLM Mustang Mare

2011-04-03T15:34:00.000-07:00

Well, back up to three horses now. Got this BLM mare that I took in because the adopter no longer wants her or could feed her. I will have my work cut out for me on the pretty 8 year old mustang that is barely halter broke! Not! She is a cutie and I don't really want to tame and train another wild horse but I have her, and I will take my time. She will lead pretty well after I get a lead rope on her but trys to bolt once in a while. I change her halter and loosened it and had the vet out to give her a check up and take some old stitches out of her neck and check her teeth, and we also trimmed her feet while she was tranqued...She likes being in the pasture now and I can even walk up to her to put a lead rope on her.

2010-10-02T10:00:00.000-07:00

Well, I seem to be on face book so much, that I have neglected my blog. I am unemployed and as Long as Lorentz, my wonderful husband of 38 years, keeps working to support us and my habits then we will be fine. I do find work once in a while that is temporary or seasonal, so I do help when I can. I am caring now for my 89 year old father and that takes a lot of my time. But I do get in some riding time on my horses and my Harley. Great rides with my pal, "Wendy Daze" and sharing lunches and riding my Harley with my best friend and Mustang owner as well, Carla.

"The Stallion and the Foal"

2010-10-02T08:36:00.000-07:00

BLM babies

2010-06-13T21:39:00.000-07:00

Well, The mustang babies are yearling now and I named the Gelding "Ranger' and the filly is Gypsy and they have now been adopted out to a nice lady. I will miss them but I have to admit that now that I am down to just 2 horses, makes life much easier. Oh and Yes I sold "Scooter to a 12 year old girl. The have bonded well.

mustang babies for adoption

2010-03-05T15:22:00.000-08:00

Well, I brought home two cute pinto mustang babies after the Oktoberfest adoption to work with and get ready for adoption for the June adoption at Albany, Oregon. Well, after posting pictures on face book they are in the process of being adopted already. It was a nice day today but didn't have anyone to take pictures of me brushing them. At least I have my pictures of me with them after two hours of working with them. There are about 800 horses at the burns pens and many many many of them are beautiful pintos, palomino's, dun's and more....
The bay and white is 6 mo's and is gelded, and the grulla and white is the filly and is approximately a year old. My pens are starting to dry up thank goodness!

practing trail obsticles

2010-03-03T20:42:00.000-08:00

we are practicing for trail competitions

Obstacles for fun & games makes good practice! Wendy likes the ball!

2009-09-30T05:39:00.000-07:00

Well, have not been on my site for quite awhile. Have just been busy. Been on some nice rides on both my Harley and my horses. Went to Yellow Stone Park on my Harley and a lot of just nice day rides on my horses. I have to switch of cause I can't ride all three at the same time LOL but once in a while I take friends to ride my other two. I went to the Puyallup fair and came home over Hwy 410 and wow it was a beautiful day for views of Mt. Rainier. Hope everyone had a nice summer. I will be getting in one more trip with Wendy this weekend of October 3rd 2009 to participate in a mountain trail competition. Those are always fun. Just hoping the weather will hold out.

John Wayne trail

2009-04-24T08:29:00.000-07:00

This is Scooter being riden by Melissa. Hope she likes her enought to buy her. Scooter is still for sale to the right owner.

It is great to have the John Wayne trail so close for quick easy rides. these are some of my friends on some of the rides. There are several bridges to cross, including over the highway and over the Yakima river. Good experience for the horses and green riders!

Trail course at Mustang Prairie Ranch

2009-04-24T07:16:00.000-07:00

Bob my 88 year old father was wishing he could ride but he has bad knees.

Doug has never been on a horse so he is getting on Little Bit. Melissa is riding Scooter who is Little Bits Sister and Melissa is Carla's Sister. Russ, another friend is riding Little Bit over a jump while Carla is walking over a bridge with Buck that is a very green mustang but whom is a pro already! I am on Wendy going over a bridge as well.

Tyrus is on Lagacy and Rico is on Little Bit

and Little Bit was used alot for the inexperience riders.

I used orange webbing I just happened to have and used it as a scary thing to go into and turn around in. I also set up a gate, side pass to a mailbox, poles to weave through, jumps (to step over first) bridge, lond ditch to walk in, water hole (when the irrigation is on) blue plastic to walk over, barrels to back a figure eight, cans to pick up and shake and some day a car wash. Now we have something to do on days when we cant afford to drive anywhere to ride. I am planning for a BBQ and playday on the obsticles this summer. The day we set them up it was a hot day just last week and now we had snow fluries yesterday. We had a great day this day and there were 6 of us playing and 3 others showing up later. It was a fun day for all.

Horn Rapids Trail Challenge

2009-04-24T06:49:00.000-07:00

Wow what a day we had. Wendy and I learned a lot! This was Wendy's first trail competion and really her first time in a large group of horses. I was so proud of her. She stayed calm unlike her pasture mate, Little Bit. Little bit did well when she was not herd bound and acting like a total nut case, but Wendy took her time checking the scary things out and conquering them! this first picture is me tying a bolen knot that I don't even know how to spell! LOL this other one of wendy stepping on the spool was great. The object was to step up onto the spool and turn a full circle and step off. Well we fell off twice but the third try she did it! Little bit rushed right on through the car wash and Wendy said no Way!! Wendy dose not side pass but she walked up to the mail box and let me open it and take out the rattle and shake it. Little Bit almost wiped out the mail box because she was herd bound and just had to get back to wendy that was standing just 20 feet away! It was a very long day but was great fun and am looking forward to the next one.

lose of my equine friends

2009-04-09T07:00:00.000-07:00

It has been a sad sad couple of weeks for me. I had to make the decission to put down my two old horses. Nevada Sage and Thunder Star whom were my first mustangs to draw me into the mustang world. I was not alone because my friend had to put her arabian down also. We both thought at the time, "what are we doing" but after it was done and over with we are now dealing with the loss and know it was the right thing to do. My friend Nicki, said she goes out and sits in the padock where her horse use to stand alot. I look at picutures alot. She got some tail hair to hang by her bed and I forgot to and you would not beilieve how I feel for not doing that. But 3:oo am one morning I jumped out of bed and remembered I did have some tail hair from Nevada hanging from a painted scull in my hall! I told Nicki and she said, Nevada told you where she was and now all you have to do is find Thunder. these were the last pictures of Nevad (the black Mare) and Thunder ( the sorrel Gelding)

Thunder was lame for two years and was getting worse and Nevada was eating nothing but senior equine the last two years because she could not eat hay or grass due to her teeth. She was 30 and Thunder was 24. I have many things in my room that remind me of them. I have plastic breyer look-a-likes for each of my horses. Nicki gave me a good Idea, to go out and get tail hair from my other horses now! because you never know what could happen, so I did! Nevada was my first adopted mustang, and she was my most versitile horse! We rode english, jumped, western, trail, halter, games, parade, shows, fair, packing, pulling logs, cart, moving cattle, roping..... Thunder was mostly my trail horse because he was gated and a smooth ride. Thunder never really was a calm horse and wore his nerves on the outside. He was always alert to what could eat him! He was my trail buddy, parades, camping, games and pasture boss! My two equine friends are off to horesey land above, for ever to be free and run like the wind!

Mustang Prairie Ranch

2009-02-01T21:22:00.000-08:00

This is my place, that I call Mustang Prairie Ranch. A life time to get and now to hang on to it during these hard times. lost my job in August and am still looking for work. life is tuff but we keep going... I am blessed and God watches over me!

snow and cold but better that floods.

2009-01-28T19:56:00.000-08:00

Our road is fixed now and I used it to get to town. I am axcited to tell everyone that I am going to Albany Oregon in March to the Extreme Mustang Makeover. I will be working with BLM and helping at the show. I am so looking forward to the trip. Maybe I will see some of you there?

Flooding

2009-01-09T22:18:00.000-08:00

Well, we were hit hard also in the Kittitas Valley here in Ellensburg as well as many other areas in the State!

Our road was wiped out as well as many other surrounding roads making it hard to get to town to go to work. We are fine here at our ranch because we are on a hill. I am going to volunteer my time Saturday to help others in the clean up. We had 9 inches of snow in our yard on January 6th and it rained all night and by morning it was gone! If the mess of life I want to gradulate my friend Carla with her new grandchild. There is always a rainbow with destruction! God bless to those in need! this first picture is our road. The water is gone now but so is the road. the second is just some cattle not minding the waiding to get to some salt. The third is some neighbors in their distruction with that rainbow!

2008-12-17T11:07:00.000-08:00

Well, it has been -4 below and has been hard to water. My hearter for the water didn't work so it froze over big time and I had to break the ice for a couple of days. Now that I have a new tank heater it is working good now and even the wild birds are happy as well as my horses. I have heated cat dish, heated bucket for the dogs and heated tank for the horses and we are all happy now. The weather warmed up to 12 degrees today and it is snowing again. We only have about 3 inches so far. Here is a picture of the tank before I chipped some of it out. Wow what a job this is. My arms are killing me! My horses are happy campers now that they ate and drank and it has warmed up. They are all just hanging out all droopy just relaxing in the snow.

Wendy Daze

2008-12-02T07:51:00.000-08:00

This is Wendy Daze my BLM Pinto mare from the south steens herd management area of Oregon. Wendy is a small horse so I waited untill her fourth year to ride her. I did a lot of ground work with her so when I got on for the first time it went very well, We were at a mustang adoption in Odessa, Washington and new friends I met led me out and we went for her first short ride. Thankyou Carla, Andrea and Lea for your encourgment as I am getting older and was a little apprehesive about getting on for the first ride. That weekend in april was her first time away from home, first time to be high lined, first time to wear all the indian stuff hanging on her and first time to be ridden. Was a great weekend! All is well and Wendy is well under way in her training. She is such a wonderfull mustang and has been a great wild horse to work with. I hope I will have many years of riding with Wendy.

For Sale to the right owner only!

2008-12-02T07:21:00.000-08:00

This is Miss Moon Scooter owned by my husband whom dose not ride anymore.
Scooter is a 9 year old domestic bororn mustang mare. She is For Sale to the
right owner. She has only been trail ridden so she dose not know leg pressures very well, she is very friendly and easy to catch and load and stand for the ferrier.
She is ridden in a hackamore and will need someone experience to put a bit in her mouth because of my hand injury I was unable to do so. She is rather herd bound. She has been high lined and will tie to a trailer. If she is treated with care and calmness she will learn easily. Anyone interested just drop me a line and I will give you my email. We are asking $1200 or best offer. She is part of the family so if I can not find a good home for her she will stay on the ranch.

My other passion

2008-12-02T07:08:00.000-08:00

This is my other passion. I do not show horses anymore and all the many things I did with horses and am getting older and needed somthing to do with my husband, as he dose not ride his horse anymore. So! I got a harley. I rode motorcycles when I was a teen and we owned a harley later but sold it. Now we both ride our harleys and really enjoy those quick rides and even long afternoon rides after work. Not like riding my horse afterwork and worrying about getting home before dark, gee I have lights on my bike so getting home in the dark is no broblem. So here is my Harley Davidson 2008 soft tail deluxe. Rides like a dream, but will never replace my horses!

Nevada Sage

2008-11-21T22:37:00.000-08:00

This is Nevada Sage. She was the my first Mustang that I adopted back in 1980 as a weanling. She is from Soldier meadows HMA of Nevada and was born 1979. She is now 29 and this picture was taken this fall of 2007. Nevada is a very versitle horse. She has been ridden English both showing and jumping. She has been ridden Western in showing and gaming and trail. She works cattle, drives, parades and drill team. I rope off her and she was used as a therapeautic horse for 6 years. She was also our main pack horse when going hunting or camping. Nevada was also in a Kevin Costner movie call the postman. She was used as a leson horse for kids and was used in 4H. She was always a big hit at fair time and the royal court like dto use her for Rodeo Grand Entry. She no longer eats hay because of her teath but is very healthy living on just Senior Equine. I doubt if any other of my mustangs come close to what she has done in her days. She is a very sweet horse and now she only goes on short easy rides and is living out her life on the ranch. She comes to the barn like clockwork for her dinner and breakfast grain. Wendy, my 4 year old pinto is going to someday take her place but there will be no other like "Nevada Sage" for me.

My dogs

2008-11-21T21:54:00.000-08:00

These are my dogs whom I love as much as my horses.

the cocker is 10 year old "Penny" and beside her is "Jett" my rescued wolf hybred dog. Then there is "Panda" whom is sitting on Little-Bit. Panda loves to ride horses. Panda is a 4 year old Border Collie/Jack Russel cross and is a whirl wind that never stops. She also is a rescue dog. The picture of my two wolf dogs are "Badger" who is 1 year and Jett at 2 years old and they are best buddies. They love to play with my horses and like to howl at night at the coyotes.

South Steens mustangs

2008-11-21T13:15:00.000-08:00

This is my best freind, Carla Canady's BLM mustang mare from the South Steens HMA, same as my pinto just one year older than mine. This is" Mustang Hy's Abbi Rae" on her first time packing and being ridden by Carla's nephew. Abby is the quietest, most calmest, and so trusting wild horse I have ever seen. But then Carla is very good at taming the wild horses. She is what you really call a true horse whisperer. Abby is a forever keeper! So is the BLM mare that Carla is riding and her name is "Mustang Hy's Foxy Lady" from Coyote Lake Herd management area of Oregon.

trail riding

2008-11-21T10:56:00.000-08:00

I love the fall riding in the brisk cool air but a beautiful sunny day with bright colors. My sister in the picture and I taking the picture had a wonderful ride that day. We have many places to ride in our valley. We also get to see many wildlife at different times of the year. At this time of year the Elk and Deer are hiding from hunters. We also see wild turkey, coyotes, believe it or not even a wolf or two, cougars, bobcats, badgers, lots of types of birds and bear. Some people love the cities and think we country people don't know what we are missing but we think "oh those city people do not know what they are missing"! So I share with you to enjoy!

My wild horse herd

2008-11-21T08:32:00.000-08:00

These are my mustangs! In the lead is "Wendy Daze", a BLM mare born 2004 in the South Steens HMA (Herd Management Area) of Oregon; second in line is "Nevada Sage", BLM mare born 1979 in the Soldier Meadows HMA of Nevada; Third in line is "Miss Moon Scooter" a domestic born mustang Mare born 1999 out of Nevada Sage by Paisley's Crescent Moon BLM Stallion; fourth in line is "Little-Bit-A-Sage" a domestic born mustang mare born 1992 out of Nevada Sage by Hemitite BLM stallion; and last in line is "Thunder Star", a BLM Gelding born 1986 in the South Steens HMA of Oregon.