Wynter's move to CA and Women's Circle 2025!

Dec 07, 2024

Happy Saturday friends!

This week we wrapped up the Women's Circle for the year. It's been such a great experience for me and by what everyone said and the fact that they are all coming back in 2025, them as well. I love hosting this every Wednesday night! Originally I thought we'd be out in the coaching barn surrounded by animals but actually we are most often in the house. If the weather is perfect we start outside and you'd think in the fall it would be perfect, but we've had such cold nights here lately (in the low 20s) and for the most part, people just don't have the gear here the way they would if they lived in a snowy state. So we start with a meditation in the living room, followed by everyone taking turns talking about what's been going on for them during the week. Sometimes this is light and flowy and sometimes it's teary. Often it's a little bit of both. No judgement—the circle is a safe place to have all the emotions from joy to rage and everything in between.

The 2025 Wednesday night Women's Circle will start back up January 8th from 6-9pm here at the ranch. The first session will run 8 weeks until the end of February. I have 3 spots left to fill. Even full, it's a small group of 10 (that includes me.)

If you're wondering if this group would be a good fit for you, the women in this group have some things in common: they are all kind, good listeners, compassionate, supportive of each other, empaths.

The art is doable. There is always a tracing so you're never expected to draw something freehand. And then we create mixed media art. We use watercolor, acrylic, acrylic markers, pens, pencils, colored pencils and more. It's fun and exploratory. Every woman's artwork looks different as they play with colors and materials that appeal to them. It gives us something to play with and explore while we talk about life.

This next 8 weeks session will be about creating the vision we want to see for the new year. This is the art for it:

We will talk and write about things from 2024 that we'd like to leave behind and things we'd like to take with us into 2025. We also will be creating our written vision for 2025. All of this will be incorporated into this piece of art.

If you'd like to talk about joining the January/February 2025 group, please text/email/call me by clicking here.

I will also be creating an on demand online class for this same piece of art that will launch in January. Stay tuned for more info!

THE RANCH:

I've created a fun little video about the ranch this week, click here to watch it.

B-Rad caught this cute photo of Tori. I had said hello to her and then went down to the lower pasture to start chores, apparently she wanted to know what I was doing down there and put her feet on the mineral block so she could see over the fence:

I found out that Facebook AI can take photos of your animals and you can tell it to give it a Christmas theme. I tried. It failed:

The second try made me laugh even harder as AI changed the mini donkey in the middle to a horse and Jordan in the way back no longer looks like himself. It's not ready to take over the world yet.

Speaking of Jordan, he has requested that he go by Blu now. Turns out, that was his name when he was born!

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Wynter is still doing well with the goats and it would be Dancer and her daughters who are with him—they have no fear!:

We are on the homestretch of Wynter's journey to California to live with his other mom Katie, and his girlfriends Celita, and Phoenix! If you are new here, Katie used to board at my ranch in Colorado. Rayn, Celita, and Phoenix all lived together with Wynter. Now that Rayn is in heaven, we thought it would be the perfect time for Wynter to go live with his other girlfriends :-)

The best hauler was found and both Katie and I feel really positive about him. Pick up is December 9th or 10th. We will be sad to see him go but happy that he will be in a place where he can join in coaching with other full sized horses.

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All the animals of the ranch are loving the influx of donated pumpkins from the community! This is what my front porch looked like a few days ago, there are actually a dozen more now lol:

The video at the top of this post is what happens to these pumpkins! Even the horses are enjoying them but not quite so enthusiastically as the goats :-)

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This foam filled cube is for anger work in coaching but Alaska thinks it makes a very nice bed:

Ouch! I have no idea how this happened:

MEMORIES:

A family member sent me this photo of Mom and Dad! I don't know where it's from but they look pretty young, maybe their 50s-ish?

I love this photo of Rayn and Wynter back in Colorado. Rayn was an average sized horse but she looks like a pony next to Wynter!

Baby ManChild (8 months old) with 2 of the 3 dogs that helped to raise him. That's Onya June in the background, the smartest and most intuitive Border Collie I ever had and Shadow aka Shadowy Figure Man of Intrigue (he had a whole song that went with that name!) my sweetest Border Collie. He used to lay his 50 pound body down the length of mine when I would lie on the couch. Head on my chest—my original weighted blanket.