Well did you guess the suprise?

Of course you did. Cheyanne was in foal. Trouble is that we were told she was due in March if she was pg.
March came and went and she had no foal. So we decided she was just fat.
April came and I was disgusted with my fear of riding issues so I took her to a neighbor's indoor ring. It took 2 hours for me to get enough nerve to get on her and another hour to get her calm enough to enjoy the ride.
I had parked along the road and took her out a back gate. Hubby came home to a garbled cell phone message from me about Dave. Well Dave owns and auto body business too. The next message was the police dept. wondering if I knew my car was along the road. Hubby thought I was in a wreck!
A friend brought her mare back and we headed to the ring again. When I was done riding, Cheyanne did some funny stretching movements and my friend said "Are you SURE she is not in foal?" Ohoh. Did a call to the former owners and they said the kids might have put her back in with the stallion. They did not keep very good records.
Holy cow.
Banjo was born 3 weeks later.

I have no clue what I am doing!

Have I lost my mind? Maybe...
Well I guess I'd better introduce myself. I am not really 55 until the 26th of October, 2008.
I live in just west of South Central, Pennsylvania and currently own 2 horses.
Belle is 6, Banjo is 16 months old.
They live about 2 miles away on a farm.
Hubby knows if I outlive him, the next day I am stringing fence.
I want my horses with me!
Unfortunately, our 3 acres is all hill and horse hooves would do a lot of damage to the ground.
When I first thought about getting a horse and picked one out, hubby said OK on one condition - no fences here. I had to find a place to board her. I went door to door!
I found a lovely empty barn and field with wooden fence only to have the owner say no.
Finally I saw the farm owner along the road talking on her cell phone. I asked and she said "I don't know why I should, but I don't know why I shouldn't!" I found my place. There were already 3 horses there. I asked how much board would be, but the lady said she was not worried about that. I took a look around and there was lots of cleaning up to do so I offered to clean up the barn and barnyard.
That took a few days and a lot of work. Soon Cheyanne came home! The photo above was the day I brought her home. She was a qh/ walking horse mix and she was carrying a suprise. More later...
Kathy