Blue Moon Ranch History
Once in a Blue Moon
My Dad didn't know what he was getting himself (and the rest of my family) into when he took me riding at a very young age. I was hooked. My love for horses has never waivered in 45 years. I bought my own horse when I was 14. Her name was "Nita", but I called her Boo Boo. She was a 6 year old half Arab/half Quarter Horse - sorrel with a big white blaze. We rode hours across the Arizona desert and down the dry river beds. We rode in the annual Rodeo Parade, we rode through the Dairy Queen drive through and we rode to Circle K for candy bars. Circle K had a hitching post back in the day... When I was 22, I packed up Boo Boo and hauled her across the country to Indiana. (that explanation would require a whole 'nother website..). Boo went from being a seasoned trail horse to an alien in a very lovely dressage barn. She played along when I purchased a dressage saddle and moved to the indoor arena. She was a fabulous first horse and I had her until she died at age 28. I had owned Boo for 22 years and had boarded her the entire time. Since I was 8 years old, I had planned to buy a horse ranch. Of course, "ranches" are a little more common in Arizona than they are in Indiana. In October 2009, I finally made my dream come true. I bought a cute 5 acre place with a 2-stall barn. Over the past few years I have slowly added a tack room, a dry lot, a third stall, and best of all - a 60x120 indoor arena (you know this isn't Arizona after all...) and a indoor hay/sawdust storage area. This isn't the 40 acre horse ranch that I had dreamed about since I was 8, but I can look out my kitchen window and see the horses in the pasture. For the first time in my life, I can walk out my door and pet my horses ANYTIME I want. And THAT my friends may only happen once in a"blue moon".
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