Spring is my favorite season – I imagine it’s yours also. Who can resist the warm breezes and the gorgeous flowers bursting forth where only brown had been just weeks before. Almost like magic, the skies are bluer, the sun stays out longer and the extra daylight gives us more time to be outside. Every day the pastures are greener, which makes the horses especially happy as grass is their favorite food.
On the page with this article is a photo I took this week of our Mustang, Liberty, as he is enjoying a beautiful spring day. Liberty has been at Rainhill since August of 2007 when he was brought here by an organization from Tennessee. This poor boy was so traumatized by his last home/owners that even after all these years, he has trust issues. He was so busy eating grass I was able to walk up beside him and snap this picture. Usually, we can get nowhere near him, especially when we are on the same side of the fence. It’s so sad, but I don’t press the issue. I just want the horses to live out their lives stress-free and if that means not forcing them to do anything they don’t want to do, so be it.
Liberty lives with a group of five other horses that we call the “herd.” They have all been here for over ten years and live in our largest pasture (20 acres) with a 40×60 barn, an automatic water tank, trees, hay and grain, and best of all, no harsh treatment by humans. When I look out over my pastures and see happy horses, I am happy myself knowing I gave them the greatest gifts – peace and love. That’s all any of us want, but sometimes they’re so hard to obtain.
We’ve been really busy getting ready for summer and all the extra work that goes with caring for horses and a farm. We are getting two new horses, one in March and one in April. The first is an older Standardbred gelding and the other a blind mare. The mare was rescued from a killer pen in Tennessee and, of course, didn’t have a snowball’s chance of a home, so we agreed to take her. I’ll write more about these two horses when they arrive and I have a chat with them. Horses tell me everything. Horses don’t lie.
Thank for reading our little stories. If you have been touched by our mission and would like to help us do this important work, please don’t hesitate to make a donation, which can be by personal check, Paypal, or gift cards to TSC, which is where we purchase our grain. I appreciate everyone and everything that our supporters do to ease our burden. Bless you for caring. Enjoy the BEAUTIFUL DAYS!
-by Karen Thurman
Rainhill Equine Facility
11125 Ky. Hwy. 185
Bowling Green, KY 42101
270-777-3164
