I wanted to thank everyone for coming to our open Barn. It was a lot of fun maybe in the spring we'll try another. Thanks everyone..

Training is none stop. Have a Gypsy cross filly that is training up real nice very showy girl. I did up a video which is a slide show of this great filly. Here is the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt1b42LuLco hope you enjoy. Have a great day

Open Barn

Well summer is over and the leaves are changing the days shorter and cooler. Fall is upon us. To make your fall just as great as the scenic Green Mountains in full foliage.

Paint the Summit Farm and PaintsRus are coming together to make an incredible Open Barn.

There will be:

Tack sale new and good used tack everything from Mini to Draft English Western Driving supplies to grooming supplies, barn supplies, blankets, sweatshirts, bits and much more.

Free all Day clinic By Lisa wheelock and her One Giant step training program. The horse that pulls back demo, training the driving horse, training the suckling, weaning, yearling, two year old. Trailer loading demo.

Horses horses horses horses for sale too. Paints, Pintos, American Paint Pony, Gypsy Cross

Located at PaintsRus Farm 379 coach rd Chester vermont 05143 signs will be posted on 103 in Chester VT

Hope to see you all there.

Dog days of summer

Well its August 6th and the dog days of summer should be upon us. But here in our neck of the woods we are starting to dry out a little and its feeling more like summer and it is almost over. Haven't cut to much hay hoping to get some done in the next few days while the sun shines. We have been cutting lots of fire wood though. I did get some pictures in between the rain.

So speaking of the dog days of summer here are the Canines in our lives. Sam is such a gentlemen love going out to work in the woods, checking the fence and wheeler rides are his favorite things to do. While Blackberry is a mother hen already keeping track of the kids.

While out checking fence and water damage from the last hard rain I got so interesting photos on grandpa"s land. Here is a photo of a moss cover rock wait a minute. I did have to do a double take on this one can you see the tip of a horse drawn plow. My grand fathers property now owned by my mother is like a farming treasure chest you'll never know what you'll find. I had to take a picture of this history that was almost camouflaged from the naked eye. Now out by the stream that runs through pasture I found this little guy. A crayfish. I had to run back to the house to get the camera to take his picture. I figured he would have run and hid by the time I got back. But the dog found him right off and all I had vision of is Scooby doo with the crab on is nose.

Boy when you say this is a pig pen. You think of really big mess. Well the pig pen looks just like that. There is so much mud with all the rain we have had this summer that I think the pig are sick of the mud. Here is a pic of the pigs in the mud.


John Deere a green and yellow tractor right. Well met our John Deer two Jeresy calves. One day the girls went up to the local farmer and were getting milk with Papa and they always go in to see the young stock and pet the cows. The next thing I know the girls are taking about how much fun it would be to raise a calf. Papa brings two right back to the farm now we have John and deer. The two older girls have been taking good care of them since day one. Leading and handling them every day I am very proud of these girls. The girls have done some reading up on oxen or working steer well have to see how far this goes.

As the youngest daughter says it feels like a farm now with the calves. She too has been helping out. I have to say the girls have been working hard this summer. We all can't wait for summer to get here but all summer we work hard for the winter.

Have a great day and enjoy what summer we have left.

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.