PROGRESS AT LAST
Editor’s note: When last we left Bobbie Jo and her husband Kenny, their New Mexico ranch construction project was entering its final stages. But a few complications developed along the way that she will soon share with EQUUS readers. In the meantime, we pick up her story at the beginning of winter 2019. Final installments of this series, planned for later this year, will include details about the equine and human accommodations that she and Kenny built in Pie Town, New Mexico.
On New Year’s Day 2019, Kenny and I watched the snow wafting down, frosting the trees, the nearby mountains and the horses’ thick winter coats. Tall bunches of golden grama grass poked through the freshly fallen snow, lending texture and contrast to the winter landscape. Our Icelandic mare Gloria seemed to especially relish the subfreezing and often windy conditions, a far cry from her first (and, we hope, only) summer of heat-and-humidity-induced misery in Texas. The colder it got, the more content she seemed to be, often lying in the snow---in the shade.
RAINBOW’S END:
Chief, a 31-year-old retired endurance Arabian from Virginia, and the Icelandic mare Gloria fra Gauksmyri (“Gloria”), ridden by Bobbie Jo, are flourishing in their high-elevation New Mexico home.
We returned to our ranch-in-progress south
