"I love my horse because..."

"I love my horse because..." or
"I love horses because..." or
"I love (name of DoubleHP horse(s) because..."

Leave a comment here, follow the theme/topic choices above, ENTER A DRAWING FOR CHANCE TO WIN SOME OF THESE STAMPS.
The photo is DoubleHP Hiroki (Hero) and DoubleHP Jet, two of our rescued horses.

These are official U.S. Postage Stamps. We are trying them out, and we need some opinions.

So we want to give some away to see what people think of them.

If we like them, we will design more Postage Stamps with various photos of our rescued horses on them. I think we will like them. They are available for sale in our Zazzle Gallery. Many other items in there too. We are just building our Zazzle Gallery, so check back there often. But there are many great items in there already, all with photos of our rescued horses on them.

http://www.Zazzle.com/gentlereins*

Anyway,
ABOUT THE DRAWING FOR A CHANCE TO WIN SOME OF THESE EQUINE VALENTINE STAMPS:
There will be 2 different drawings. Names will be drawn on Feb. 13 and announced the next day, on Feb. 14. That's right! on Valentine's Day!

One drawing will take place right here on our blog. This drawing is for 10 of these stamps. All you have to do to enter is post a comment here, to this blog entry. In about 50 words or so, comment on "I love my horse because..." or "I love horses because..." or "I love (name of a DoubleHP rescued horse) because..."

then, check back here on Valentines Day, Feb. 14, to see who won the stamps.
you may check back sooner, of course, to see if we got any other comments & entries.

If you are the winner, just give us a call. (605) 359-0961. We'll send your stamps right out to you.

Or if you live near us, you can pick them up if you want to.

But you have to post a comment following the theme mentioned above, you have to check back on this blog to see if you are the winner, and you have to call us to let us know if you will pick up the stamps or if we should send them to you. And we would appreciate your letting us know if you like the stamps once you see them for real!

That's it! easy! No entry fee. No donation. No raffle tickets to buy. Just leave a comment here and check back to see if you are the winner.

THE SECOND DRAWING is for 20 of these stamps, and you enter through our doublehphorses.org website, along with making a donation in any amount, to help feed & care for our rescued horses.

Link to our website here http://www.doublehphorses.org/

The directions for entering the drawing for 20 of these stamps will be right there easy to find on our website home page.

thank you. just give us a call if you have any questions or suggestions (or comment here).
(605) 359-0961. DoubleHP Horse Shelter, Darci Hortness

Laura's Xmas Horse Quilt gift

Below is a slideshow of the quilt that my sister-in-law, Laura Hortness, made for me for Christmas. In our family, we draw names. And I am so lucky that Laura drew me! I'm sure everyone will be trying to pay Santa now to make sure Laura draws a certain name. It is already getting full of cat hair in my house, so I think I will display it as a wall hanging. It is so beautiful.
thanks Laura. And thanks Santa for making sure she drew my name for Xmas.

Oh, and this was my first attempt at making a slideshow to put on here. I think I will learn how to make them just a little smaller for my next one.

Lauras Xmas Horse Quilt

Holiday Visitors

We had a nice, pleasant variety of Holiday guests this year. Including Caitlyn in the light pink coat with her Dad Chad, and her friend Alyssa in the dark pink coat. They are all friends of Jamie Flinn, Photographer of JF Photos in Sioux Falls South Dakota (605) 254-3062. Jamie helped us with our Unbridled Beauties of DoubleHP 2009 Calendar, which you can see and purchase in our website http://www.doublehphorses.org/.
The palomino, Moonshine, is about 26 years young now. He has given rides to more people than we could possibly ever try to keep track of.
The chestnut mare is Flicka, just a teenager.

These are not rescued horses. I owned them before we started to do the rescue thing.