Photo Album - Jen Boulden

Lou jumps her little heart out at a local schooling event.  I am so lucky to have the worlds 10 greatest animals, although soon it will be 9 as I have to find a home for one of my chickens, Hippy Chick, who turns out to be a Hippy Chuck

Looks like I have something on my mind besides work.... I think I had a lascivious thought about the photographer

I loved Costa Rica… I thought it was a country for the less rugged when I wanted hard core… but I found luxury and hard core ‘eco’ at Selva Bananito.

Jen Nash and I took my MBA spring break week to visit an incredibly quaint town in the Blue Ridge mountains, and we visited Joel Salatin’s incredibly innovative eco-farm. Here the pigs are composting the cow manure which then fertilizes the fields to grow the grain to feed the farm creatures. 

My brother, dad, me, Hen (grandma), and Poopsie (mom). They are good peeps. 

It is catch and release! Please don’t give me flack about the fish’s pain in the mouth! Fishing licenses actually give a lot of the proceeds to conservation to make sure there is a river left to fish. So there. ;-)

I know, I know.. I need to start wearing sunblock. But that is hardly something one thinks of when rolling out of bed after a night of Cowboy Cosmos, and getting on the horse by 5:00 a.m.!!

Just call me the horse whisperer… okay, I am not really but this moment with the foals was divine. And soon, when I get my butt out of the office chair, I will become a better horse whisperer.

Being a vegetarian on cattle drives was interesting…
Oh well.... all the grief was worth it for the experience of running around like mad through the wood and the plains chasing these cute big cows around. 

As you may know, my brother is a dentist in ATL, which is ironic, as he gives people ideal bites. Anyway, he had just fixed my chipped tooth, and was taking this shot for the “after” part of the before & after. I of course am in my Bamboosa turquoise shirt. I wish I had one in every color. Then people wouldn’t think I am so strange for wearing this one multiple days in a row.

Right outside Bozeman I am at my friend’s farm… helping to exercise her Arabian… life is good.

Very excited to get back into eventing… after a year of looking for the perfect horse, I truly think I have found her!

This is on Pete’s Hill, in Bozeman. Crick is quite famous locally at least… she didn’t get chosen for the Old Navy mascot!! (hurumph).

Love how the Crick’s ears cast their own shadows. This was taken at my barn… I adore that land. The Spanish Peaks are just off to my right…

My seven girls are really laying now, except Chicklet – that little black and white one, who I got a few months ago.  She was imprinted at birth (first thing she saw was a human) and so she often lets herself into the house, and tries to roost in the mudroom.