Yes! They are here! Jasper and Spencer are here at the farm finally. It only took six weeks from the closing for the barn and pasture to be ready for them. It only took 60 years to have this dream come true!
I arranged with a friend to go with me to pick them up, but at the last minute, she could not go with me. I have to admit to being just a bit intimidated by trailering two big horses by myself. The whole thing is intense. Everything is so BIG – the truck, the trailer, the horses….but I did it! At first, I couldn’t get the trailer hooked onto the truck because the trailer’s support had sunk into the dirt. I had to put the mounting block under the support so I could bring up the wheel off the ground and then get a good big rock under it. Then I could jack it up to hook it to the truck. There is something about driving the truck with the trailer hooked on the back that makes me feel so small! Little me controlling this big equipment.
I was once told, by a professional horse mover, that Jasper was the most difficult horse to load that she had EVER met. I worked and struggled with him on this so having him walk on, even though it is now just how it is, is always stunning for me. It is strange to know that their lives are changing forever but that they don’t know.
I said some warm good-bys to Jen, the barn manager who has been so wonderful over these five years there. Red Tail Equestrian has been a wonderful home for me and my boys. Given where I am going and the fact that I can return to ride there when ever I want, I was not sad. Also, I was too preoccupied with the task ahead of me to be sentimental.
Driving home with them was easy as pie, but still, I wonder if I’ll ever get used to trailering. I was even smaller feeling, knowing that my two big boys were in the back. It’s such a huge responsibility to drive these guys around. Their lives are in my hands.
I can tell they are happy here. There is so much space and so much grass. I can keep the stall doors open for them 24/7, so they can decide when to come in out of the heat and bugs and when to go out and graze. At first, it seemed like they couldn’t decide what to do with this freedom. 
They kept going in and going out like they were making sure it was true that this was up to them now. It’s super hot here during the days this week, so they ended up spending a good part of their second day inside. It is so so satisfying to see them wander out as the cool evening settles over the pasture.
Yesterday, they were out there grazing, and I called them through the window of my office. I then got to watch them gallop from across the pasture up to the barn. They seem very attached to me which, of course, I love.