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Another cold morning and as soon as I got up the fire was started in the wood burner. There were some pieces of charcoal left from yesterday's fire so when I cleaned out the wood burner before putting in the kindling the charcoal was piled up in the middle.
It didn't take long before it was burning brightly and putting out the heat.
The rest of the ashes go into the bucket then are spread on the garden or in the manure pile. There was no outside work that needed to be done today and I was glad to just keep the fire going while reading. Winter is our slow time and usually less work unless we have frozen waterers. Thankfully today we didn't. Two years ago we were struggling with buying home owners insurance. No company would insure us. I finally asked our insurance agent why and she came back with you have PIRATES, and take part in very risky businesses. I was a little surprised. I knew they must have been looking at old pictures.
Below is the performance in 2016
They asked us to come back the second year so we did another pirate performance in 2017
If you would like to see the blog post of the 2017 performance click HERE.
Our pirates were all long gone, most of them are now married with children. I tried to explain those pirates were pretty much all family and were SAFE pirates, they only had plastic swords and no guns. They only performed at the Illinois Horse Fair for 2 years. The last year we performed we did the Wizard of Oz play. It didn't matter, no company wanted to insure us. All the years we were performing, all the years we lived at Pleasant Home and then here at the Horsemeister farm we have NEVER turned in a claim and yet all those companies though we were high risk. I removed the pirate pictures from the website and the next year we were able to get insurance. We no longer perform anywhere. I sold both of our big 4 horse gooseneck living quarter trailers, sold the 2003 pick up truck and now have just the new (2015 Chevy) pickup and 2 horse trailers, the Eclipse 2 horse and Mike's 4 horse stock trailer. I miss those days but life sure is easier. I will need to bring Rosalie in before I leave for Gulf Shores Feb 9th and have her sonagrammed again just to make sure she is still pregnant. 
We have sold her foal. The people buying this foal will take her to Western Hearts in Kickapoo early March and have her deliver there. She is due March 30th. She will be staying with them until the foal is weaned, although I will bring her back to be rebred during that time. We did this with Madiera one year and it worked out well. I can make plans and hope they go as planned but no guarantees. First comes the ultrasound.
