Friday, November 14, 2008

IT ALL BEGINS

Hi. I'm Tracey and this is my first attempt at blogging. I've created this blog to chronicle my lifelong dream of living on a "farm." As a little girl, I remember going visiting with my father to a home in the foothills in Northern California. This home included a lot of land, brown with the summer sun; an inground pool (fenced) that did not hold a lot of intrigue for me as we also had an inground pool; and a horse - that was exciting! The little girl who lived there was not much older than me. She put me on the back of the horse and led me around the property. I was in love. From that time on, I can rememeber wanting to live in the country.

While growing up I enjoyed camping. Once married, I enjoyed camping with my husband and sons. So, when my husband and I moved to Washington State to our little "farm" I was in heaven!



We moved here six years ago and I've been loving it ever since. When we first moved in, we kept saying we weren't going to have any animals...besides dogs and cats (that's Madison, the chocolate lab you can hardly see in the photo above). That lasted until 2004 when, for our 25th wedding anniversary, my husband, Rueben, bought me my first horse, the horse of my dreams. His name is Beau and he was foaled on my 40th birthday. He was just the beginning...

2 comments:

Michelle said...

Wow, that's a beautiful picture of Beau!

April said...

You go girl! I agree, it is a very beautiful picture of Beau. I will enjoy reading your blogs for sure and hope to see more pictures in the future.