A clinic and new digs

On Saturday morning I watched a Jim Anderson clinic that Shayla was riding in. For those of you not familiar with Jim, he's an Alberta man who is a world champion Cowboy Up Challenge, is a Wild Card in next year's Road to the Horse, and is a champion of many reining and NRHA shows. I competed against him in open shows when he was a little kid, my how far he has come!

I took photos of Shayla and another local young lady, here are two of my favorites.

I will be riding Rio in the same clinic in January. Shayla is coming over on Wednesday to do some body work on him, as I find him quite stiff and I want to get him adjusted before I start really making him work.

Now that the mares don't live here any more, I was able to move Beamer so that he is next to Rio and Josie, I think he is pretty happy that he can visit with them. I have a 4 ft. alley between them, but he can touch noses at the water troughs.

 Beamer's new digs are 20 ft wide by 70 ft. long, made out of my corral panels. He still gets turnout in his special paddock during the afternoon. I need to get some plywood for the west side (this is taken facing north) but I don't have shelter from the south wind for him yet, I'll have to rig something up. That's the problem with being a renter instead of a land owner, nothing is ever perfect. His old shelter had no protection from the north.
That overhang at the top left of this photo is where Beamer used to live, it will now house the truck that Ted is building from the ground up, a 1971 Chevy 4X4.