Been a while since I posted

The last post I posted that there were new puppies well they have all grown and moved onto new homes. On our way to pick up our pigs we got to stop in and see the puppies in person. Shadow really did a great job mothering those pups they had nice round bellies and just perfect personalities It was really hard to not take one home. Here is a picture of them all sleeping after the girl played with them all.

So I mentioned pigs, well we decided to get pigs this year to raise. Boy, were they hard to find seamed like everyone had the same idear. So someone had told me about criagslist so I started searching for pigs lots of calling and everyone seamed sold out as soon as they posted. Finally I was the first caller and got some pigs ordered and was a nice person and ordered pigs for all the neighbors in Baltimore (were we are working on building our new house.) Thirteen pigs. We have had the pigs for over a month know and they are growing like weeds.

Speeking of Weeds the garden seams to be growing more of them insted of veggies. We put in an extra large garden so we could feed the pigs the extra produce plus fill our freezor for the winter with grocciers being so expensive and all. I finally found some time to weed the garden last weekend and get some mulch put down so the weed can't take over.


We have been working hard on our property. We have been sawing and milling and even making a shed with our new found lumber. Its a great feeling that we did all the steps ourselves. Here are a few pictures.


Here is a clear spot we can finally see the stone wall.





Here is a little stack of hemlock waiting to be milled and of course you can see the hard working dog following me around and trying to get into all the pictures. We can't get any of these log to mill without the use of a dependable tractor it may be small but boy can it do the job.




The best investment was our mill.









Here is a little load of lumber we milled. A shed made out of our fine lumber. can't wait to build the house. We will be camping out all summer to work on the property.





As you can see we have been very busy. Thanks to the rain hay can't be made so I am in catching up on other thing have a great day.

Puppies have arrived

I am a little late posting this but better late than never. Very exciting news, Shadow had here puppies on April fourth around 10:00 pm. Shadow and Sam had a wonderful litter of pups eight in all. One black male, two black females, two chocolate males, three yellow females. Here are some pictures of them 24 hours old and Shadow taken care of her new pups and Sam Playing ball. Sam is very good at ball as he keeps the middle child on her toes for soccer. He is a great defender and it quit hard to get the ball past him to shoot it in the goal. Sam also has been in training for a hunting dog too. I am going to do a page on the labs so look for it soon on the website www.vermontel.net/~lwheelock or google search Paint the Summit Farm.

The Chocolate Goddess has arrived

March 18th 2009 at 11:00am Emma delivered the most beautiful chocolate bay tobiano filly sired by our very own Chocolate Domino. We are naming this filly after the Goddess of Chocolate "Ixcacao"(Esh kako). Since she is as sweet as chocolate and has all the colors to meet all the flavors of chocolate white for white chocolate, brown for milk chocolate, and black for dark chocolate. Ix also stands for little one or little girl, little woman. Here is a website that has the story of the Goddess of Chocolate http://www.goddessgift.com/goddess-myths/Mayan-goddess-chocolate.html. Its a pretty neat story and boils down to ''The Goddess of Chocolate reminds us that a luxurious world unfolds before your eyes if only you will take a moment to still your "busy-ness" and rejoice in those things which give you pleasure.'' So this filly represents the pleasure in my life.

Of course a picture of Chocolate himself. Chocolate is standing at stud for 2009. Please check out the website for more info www.vermontel.net/~lwheelock

Doggie News

I have been so busy training horses, raising children, and working on our land. Yes in the near future Paint The Summit Farm will be moving south. About a half an hour south of our current location. Very exciting but a lot of work as we are building everything ourselves.


The end of January our Chocolate Labrador Retriever Sam met up with his first girl friend. Shadow a very beautiful Black Labrador Retriever her and her family were looking for a mate. So the Beginning of April Sammy and Shadow may have there first litter of AKC reg Labrador Retriever puppies.




With meeting Shadow our family fell in love with her and missing the puppy Sam use to be. Over winter vacation from school we went to look at a litter of black lab puppies and of course we couldn't just look and came home with a beautiful little girl we have named Blackberry Wheat.

Here is the funny thing this pup was born 12-19-08 and was named Blackberry Wheat after a Beer And Sam's Summer Ale was also born March 29, 08 also named after a beer, and our filly born in April of 2008 was named Strawberry Rose Wine. 2008 was a funny year for a cool beverage. Mike says we can call the kennel The booze hound kennel and we'll only brew up the finest puppies in a few years as the labs are in training to be the best they can be hunting, service, agility and of course the best family dog ever.

Have a great day.

December 2008

Where has the year gone? I didn't get everything done I wanted to. I think I'll fit one last thing in before the new year. I promised myself I would do this. Today it got done.

As a trainer it seams like I am always working for the customer and there needs. Well I have wanted to do this for years now and set myself first. Chocolate Domino is Now under saddle and all the training and great times spent with him has paid off. He is a super sensible mount and we are going to have some more great times together. I am posting a few pictures of his first ride. Some of the pictures include stand on a loose rein being ridden on a loose rein and head and neck bends.













Lisa signing off on cloud nine. I am so very please with Chocolate and myself for making my dreams and promises come true. Have a great new year and don't for get yourself next year its well worth it for your mind, body and soul. Happy New Year.

Yearlings in training

Boy horses are never to young to learn. Here are two Yearling fillies in training getting a good foundation so when they become old enough to ride or drive they will be already to move on. Ground work is everything to a horse. This is pretty much the cellar to your house if you don't build your cellar right the house will fall in or you will have to go back and fix the cellar and that is twice as much work after you have already built the house. So on to building the cellar.

First I teach all my horses to move there hind Quarters no mater the age. This is the engine and if you can't control it on the ground don't expect it to work under saddle. Then I teach them to move the front Quarters. This is your steering wheel and you are the one controlling not the horse. Many horses have a tie rod gone and the horse lean on you when you try to move them around. Believe me you don't want to care a horses front end its quiet heave as it has the head neck and thoughts big shoulders oh yeah don't for get those front legs that like to step on your toes. Teach them to carry their own weight and get out of your space.

Now I teach a lunging for respect 1 and 2. Now we are not lunging to get the horse tired we are teaching them something. We are teaching personal space, Liston to me because I am the heard mare, which all boils down to respect. After I teach this I go on to trust me I won't hurt you no mature how scary it is. Look at some of the amazing things you can do with your little ones.

Here is a Gypsy Cob filly and a Reg Paint filly doing some tarp work. Mind you this is not the first lesson but every thing I have done with these fillies has prepared them for almost anything I put in front or behind or on them. Currently I have Four Yearlings in training. These two girls are for sale and you can check them out on the forsale page. If you are looking for training please check out the training page for more info and email me for pricing. Have a great day.

The Cinderella Pony

Cinderella purchased a new white pony for her collection of white driving and riding horses. Except he doesn't know how to work he only knows how to be handsome. Cinderella had contacted me to see if I had room for her new pony to start having some training done.





Cabillo started his training with me August 21st 2008. My girls also have been helping with the training of Cabillo. This is where he got the Cinderella pony from because he is white with long flowing mane and tail. Cabillo is owned by Ricque of Maine and she is having Cabillo trained for her Grand daughter age four. Who feel in love with Cabillo. So as of today Cabillo has had a months worth of training and is going to have a few more weeks of training to make his training more refined.
He is being ridden by all the girls ages 4, 7, and 10. Walk trot and canter and through some trail class stuff like a bridge and poles on the ground.
Cabillo is pulling a cart up and down the road also in a ring setting.




Here he is starting to pull the cart. It did take some time to get to this point but he was sure ready when it was time.










Here is pulling the cart with me in it he did very well for the first time.

Yesterday Cabillo went out down the road for some more training. We meet a very large tractor on the road and he wasn't going very slow. Cabillo kept right on walking down the road. All was quiet then out pooped a large Shepard dog jumping on the end of his leash and Cabillo trot right along. We are getting almost home an I hear the train whistle get around the corner there is the train. Cabillo walked toward the train and then waited for it to be done passing. This little man amazed me today. when I started working with Cabillo I wasn't sure he was going to be a cart horse he was a little racy when nervous and wasn't sure about having me behind him. The other thing he liked to do was a little rear when confused with something . Yesterday he did none of these things and was a safe perfect little man. Great job Cabillo. This little pony is well on his way to pulling Cinderella's pumpkin to the ball.