If you haven’t yet met Grandpa Joe, we’ll just introduce him with a: “He’s freaking amazing.” He turned 90 this year and he’s still spry, capable and funny.
For his birthday, since Anna and I were still in Florida, we all went to Myrtle Beach for the weekend. Here’s some pictures of his party and some family pictures we took:
Today, our Trakahner Mare, Liana, gave birth to her first foal; an adorable Trakahner colt.
The Trakahner breed puts more importance on the mare (mother), so a Trakahner foal’s name must begin with the first letter of the mare’s name. Before we knew what gender the foal was going to be, Anna did a facebook survey with some filly/colt names that she liked. Here are Anna’s facebook posts and the comments from people who liked Linux:
So we have a baby horse thus a name survey 🙂 With this breed of horse I have to pick a name that starts with the same letter as the Mom’s “L”. Here are a few picks for if it’s a girl!
1. Lanai (veranda) 2. Lareina (queen) 3. Laveda (cleansed) 4. Leala (loyal) 5. Lavena (mother of roman people) 6. Lexie (protector of mankind) 7. Labella (beautiful) 8. Laurette (little angel) 9. Lila (night) 10. LishaHere’s the Boy’s
1. Lark (songbird) 2. Lake 3. Lanier (woolworker) 4. Lander (landowner) 5. Larkin (fierce) 6. Latif (elegant) 7. Larch (a type of tree) 8. Lacrosse (a game) 9. Lancelot (attendant) 10. Linux (computer nerd name 🙂
Don’t forget this is for a horse so it can’t be hard to say quickly. It also can’t be a name that has been used before so don’t be offended if I can’t use a great name as it may be taken.
Kori Curry I like lander best and Linux the computer one second
Dawn Denison Larkin is cool. Ditto with Linux
Devin Hanson Linux is cool 😀 I bet Ashton will like that one too.
Anna Wow guys thanks for all the feedback! Glad you like Linux 🙂 Not sure about the Twilight thing lol..Sorry Marla Lucy is taken 🙁
Ashton hahah @ linux. That’s hillarious. I also like Lander and Lancelot.
After the majority voted for “Linux” (Pronouced: Lynn-ex), and as a tribute to her nerdy husband, Anna chose Linux for the new colt. (Linux is a computer operating system like Windows.)
Here is a picture of him on his birthday:
Liana was 4 days late. Which just so happened to be when Anna left for a weekend horse show with Ossette. The first day Anna was gone, Carol was feeding the horses, and saw the new baby out in the field. We figured he was born around 4:00. He was so long-legged, it took him 3 or 4 hours before he was able to stand and drink.
It was sprinkling that evening, and a beautiful rainbow came out.
*UPDATE: Here’s some updated pictures of Linux a couple days to a couple months old*
You can see more pictures on Anna’s Top Priority Trakahners Website.
Hi All,
Here’s a picture diary with some notes of when my family came to visit this year! We had a great time.
One of the many projects everyone worked on was putting up the fence around the “foal paddock.” Everyone pitched in and worked hard. It cam out looking beautiful. Grandpa Joe even took time to help spread the weeds. =) (Just kidding, he worked on it more than anyone else.)
Here’s some family photos:
As I’ve mentioned before, this is going to be a “pole barn” which means the entire structure relies on poles sticking into the ground. This epic barn will have (and had) 16 poles. We dug 16 holes, and now we have got to fill them.
8/4/2009: Bryon Harrison helped a lot in this stage. He lined up the poles with the appropriate holes:
Here’s the first four corner poles up and braced. (If I could do this again, I would have measured these corner poles to make sure they were placed perfectly (and square), plum them out and then fill them in.)
8/5/2009: Then we started bracing up the inside poles. Once they are all plum and centered, we braced them with the old purlins.
Hello everyone! This is Geoffrey up in Montana, and I was given the honors to write a blog for my bro so he could go out and build his barn.
In case you didn’t know, our family is here in Polson, Montana at the Ashton and Anna Headquarters, but this time the activities were epic! Ranging from barn raising to water skiing, the family has lined up for a week of fun and games in true Montana style, basically.
I created a AshtonAnna header design for this blog, which you can see here:
Here’s me and Ashton flying around in the tube (also a new header):
This is AshtonAnna’s “I’m on a Boat” picture:
