We did it!! We adopted again & Topaz now has company. We have a little sorrel gelding that has a sweet disposition. He is darker than Topaz with a very red mane that looks like it was permed. Topaz seems to like him a lot. The first day she spent a lot of time in the stall next to him. She would leave to go out in the pasture to graze but then come back to check on him. He calls to her but she won't always come. He is calling less & less. He came from Oregon and still has a winter coat that I am trying to brush out. He did have large clumps of matted fur that hung down but he let me comb them out. Not bad for the first day. Yesterday when I worked him I used a Furminator comb to get more out. We are in the 100s and he has to be hot.

Topaz comes back late in the morning and stands in her stall while he lays down & sleeps. We also adopted a burro. Topaz is not as friendly to her but the gelding has company when Topaz is gone & I'm busy with other things.

The training continues with Topaz, she now bows when I'm in the corral with her. Not as easily as when I'm on the other side of the fence but we're working on it.

After I got over most of the pinched nerve I managed to get the flu. Then over that & headed to summer vacation we were redoing the corral getting ready for the new addition when I broke my little toe. I have had a hard time wearing shoes but it's getting better. I can now wear my steel toed shoes to work the both of them.

He is like Topaz in that food is a great motivator. I want to get him to eat other than hay because it gets kinda messy. I'm sure it won't take long as he is quick to learn