Cabinwood Farm Blog

Annabel Lee’s first catalog Photo shoot!

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Check out our very own Mamoo’s Maiden by the Sea (or better known as Annabel Lee!!!) Annabel now belongs to our son Jason, and Jason has successfully trained her and run her in many agility trials and competitions!

What do you do when you retire from Agility competitions??? You go to the next level…..a catalog photo model!!!

Congrats to Jason and Annabel who completed their first modeling photo shoot this morning for Improvements Catalog!

For a look at this catalog go to:
http://www.improvementscatalog.com/home.do

We’ll keep you posted on when Annabel will appear in the catalog!

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Cabinwood Farm’s Baby Ruth

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I just happen to notice on my calendar that today is Baby Ruth’s third birthday! Wow, seems like yesterday she was just a little puppy. In three years she has both delighted us and made us crazy. She picked Mr. Al over me to get attached to so she is a real “daddy’s girl!”

She’s been to obedience training but isn’t always obedient. She’s been to agility training with our son Jason….twice…and she runs and jumps but doesn’t sit still very well, and she is the best little escape artist we have when it comes to squeezing out of, darting out of or just plain getting out of anything or anywhere!!

Despite all that, Ruthie (or Wookie as she is most often called) is a sweetheart and we love her!!

Happy Birthday, Wookie!

Pete and Jackie

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Our heart goes out to my little brother Pete who lost his best friend and companion Jackie yesterday after a difficult and valiant fight with cancer. We are glad that Pete and Jackie were both able to be here at Cabinwood recently and share some time with the family, even if it was for another sad event in our lives.

Our condolences to her friends and family.

Memories of Jackie and my brother’s support for her will always be a part of our history now. We are so very sorry for your loss, Pete.
We love you.

Katie, Dora, Possum and Lady Cynthia sharing a donkey meal

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There’s always lots of color in the pastures of Cabinwood! We have so many diverse shades and types here it often looks like a donkey rainbow at meal time around the feeding tires.

Pictured here is blue-eyed Ivory Mom Possum and her ivory foal Lady Cynthia who still remains a much darker creme color then her mother. Then there is dark gray Katie with her own foal Eudora who is a very very dark brown! All these beautifully colored girls make a striking picture in our front yard pasture!

First day out in the pasture

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As you can see in the picture, Lady Cynthia is welcoming Lullaby Lucille into the pasture for the first time! With the weather being so bad the last few days, Lucille and mom Brianna had to stay inside a few extra days. But, once outside this morning, Lucille made some new friends and did a lot of running around and kicking up her hooves!!!

Lucille and Cynthia should become very good buddies this summer!

Cabinwood’s Lullaby Lucille 6/17/2009

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Please welcome to this world Cabinwood’s Lullaby Lucille born last night (6/17/2009) to our jennet ASSphalt Acres Brianna!!! Lucille was almost 10 days late but she is a tiny little thing just over 20″. We’re still not sure what color she is but there certainly was a lot of red hair mixed in with some brown and whatever! We’ll know better this morning when we see her all dried off.

She was so active and alert at birth that she was up and jumping on her Mom Brianna before her Mom ever got up on her own after the birth!! When I left the stall around 1am last night Lucille was running all over everywhere in between nursings!

Thanks to Steve and Jill Crim at ASSphalt Acres for allowing Brianna back last year to breed with their herdsire Lawzyday Cherokee! Cherokee and Brianna have produced a beautiful little jennet together!

UPDATE:! Lucille is officially being called a dark sorrel now!! Lots of red and red eye lashes, too!

June 2009 Visitors!

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The terrific group from Lake County’s Deepwood Center MRDD ( Mental Retardation and Developental Disabilities) were back again this morning for their second year in a row visit to our donkey farm! The kids had a great time seeing all the donkeys and this year they all got to pet Ms Spitzy, the pregnant donkey and also Little Miss Dora who is only 2 1/2 months old!

Everyone left with a smile on their face and promised they’d be back in the fall to PET MORE DONKEYS!

Cyn meets Cyn

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Yes, it IS an HONOR to have a donkey named after you at Cabinwood Farm!

Only the most famous and the nicest and best folks get donkeys named after them here! We’ve had a Bette Pauline after our mothers, a Clifford and a Kaitlin last year after my son and his girlfriend (sadly they broke up:( and this year is no different as we start out the year with A Sir Jeffrey and a Lady Cynthia after two very close friends of ours!

Today my friend Cyn came to meet her new namesake Lady Cynthia! Don’t they look cute together and YEP! everyone is right…they do both have the very same color hair!!!!!!! I told my friend that it is possible that Lady Cynthia’s hair might be getting lighter as she starts to grow up and Cyn said that would be fine since she could change the color of her own hair if need be!

It’s really nice having friends….and even nicer when you have friends that like our donkeys!!!

Lady Cynthia

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Here is the happy mother and baby 12 hours after birth! All is well so far and mother and baby are doing great!!

Possum and Lady Cynthia

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What a blessing this little girl is to us here tonight. It has been a very tough spring here at Cabinwood but tonight there was hooting and shouts of happiness for sure!!!

Please welcome Cabinwood’s Lady Cynthia born to our ivory girl Pieratt Possum and sired by Cabinwood’s JTChance. Little Cyn is Chance’s very first foal and she is also the very first home bred jennet for us. Last year we had a big crop of boys!!!

This little girl is perfect in every way and her dark buckskin ivory color is so unique!

Way to go Possum! Way to go Chance!

Happy Birthday Lady Cynthia!!!