Sweet Baby Blitz

This weekend marks a lot of big milestones for me. October 4th is my one year wedding anniversary and October 5th is Ammo’s (my dachshund) first Birthday. As the week continues on I’ll share with you some great “look backs” into my wedding (which one of the trick ponies attended!) and Ammo’s first year with [...]

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It Takes Skill

On Sunday we held our first event at Iron Horse Farm. We called it a Skillathon. Our intention was for it to be a giant obstacle course that tested you and your horse’s skills. You could enter to be timed (scored on how fast you went through the obstacles with time faults added for incomplete [...]

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Its a Dog Eat Dog World

I thought today I would share with you some photos that I took of my Dachshund, Ammo and my parent’s Labrador/Australian Shepherd mix, Trooper last weekend. Let me first say that Trooper and Ammo are the best of friends. They “play” together for hours on end and although it may seem like they torment eachother [...]

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Keeping it in the Family

Last weekend was a busy painting weekend as Minnow created lots of new works and Blitz took to painting his first masterpiece with ease. But what about Boomerang? Younger brother to Blitz by a year and devoted follower/watcher of King Minnow – Boomer has the least amount of trick training (or training in general) out [...]

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September Giveaway – WINNER!

So its time to announce the winner for Minnow’s mini-painting giveaway. Interestingly we had 23 views to the post but only 3 people commented to win the prize! But regardless, with the help of Random.org we were able to generate the completely random winner! And the winner is….. Mary H. from http://stalecheerios.com/blog I love her [...]

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Stroke of Genius

So yesterday you hopefully read about how there are now TWO painting ponies at PonyPaintings.com. I briefly mentioned how I used Minnow as “teacher” to show the other ponies how it was done – and today I’d like to go into that a little further.
When I started painting with Minnow on Sunday I began thinking [...]

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Really Big News!

On Sunday (as planned) I lugged out Minnow’s paints and easel so that he could create some new artwork. We spent about an hour creating lots of new works (that will be available soon)….but I will post more about this later. While Minnow painted I specifically set up his easel infront of our dutch doors [...]

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All About Mounted Games

At the suggestion of a reader (thanks!) I’ve decided to make a page on the blog all about Mounted Games! Mounted Games has been my equestrian sport of choice since I was 14 years old (11 years!!). Although I have a deep passion for Dressage among other disciplines, Mounted Games will always be my true [...]

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September Giveaway

This weekend I have plans to do some new paintings with Chincoteague Minnow. After Pony Penning 2009 we were nearly cleared out of all his recent paintings – so its high time we start making some new ones. Since we will be adding new stock to the website and our retail shop in Downingtown, Pa [...]

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Speed Racer

Meet One Way Ticket, or as we call her, Jet. Jet came to live with us several years ago as my little sister’s new horse. We found her through a friend and she had been living as a children’s hunter pony. The young girl who owned her had named her GEM (which were actually the [...]

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