I got a offer today that is one of those.. on one hand, its got the possablity of being an amazing blessing, and on the other hand, the timing sucks..

You see, Jason had been telling me that he wanted a smaller horse for his riding horse, but it has to be big enough that a) I can ride and train it b) it can work as a team in size with Sam

Must be broke to ride/drive, must be somewhat in the same age or so with Brandy, so they can be driven as a team, so you can imagine my surprise when I was asked if I wanted a purebred fjord horse this morning.

That would be this breed of horse.. (photo from the net, not the horse I am talking about)

Seems that there is a old gentleman who has a few horses, they are fat and sassy, but as he is now really gotten up there in age, this gelding has not been ridden in five years but was well broke and ridden lots before, he has been getting his health checks and care’s and rather then need feed, he needs some good work to take a bit off him in weight.

The old gentleman asked his ferrier if he knew anyone that would give this boy a great home, and if so, he could be had for free, so my ferrier happened to know that I wanted a smaller gelding riding horse for Dh, but it still needed to be big enough to carry me for the training etc.

So I got asked if we were interested in him,  I asked Dh and got a straight up NO, and that he wanted to point out that while he has before said that the horses are very wide, that last time we rode, (he was on Brandy, who is more narrow then sam) that he was just fine

On one hand, I am in total agreement on the NO, we do not need more then two horses on the farm, if I only had brandy, I would be beating down the door to get to go meet and ideally tack up and ground work this boy, and see if it is in fact a match for Hubby, even if they would not match for the team, I can give on that one, as all my equipment for draft harness etc is all about single horse anyway.

But we do have two horses, and sam is not going anyway till spring, and we finally have enough tack that fits the horses we currently have, and there are two horses, two riders, and I only have so much time that I can give to the horses in terms of training, care and even hours to ride.

yup, timing can what could be a major blessing, just not work for you..

I will have to trust that if and when the time comes for us to find Dh a horse of his own, that the right one will come up, but I do doubt that I will be able to afford a purebred fjord.