HORSES FOR HEROES New Mexico - Cowboy Up! 505-798-2535

Oct 8, 2012

The End of September

September 18th, 2012

Porch up!

Our warriors working with general contractor Doug Keaty.

September 17th, 2012

Board and Batten delivered from Pat Austin, Stock Building Supply... Check!

September 19th, 2012

Mr Bill's Junior, aka Houdini, first ride here ~ nice job Sarah!

September 20th, 2012

Moving right along!

Doug Keaty general contractor and our building mentor.

Stickler for detail... yup! It's you Brian!

September 22, 2012

I traveled to Colorado for Summit ~ Touched By A Horse's Annual Conference for The EGCMethod® ~ The Equine Gestalt Coaching Method® was developed by Melisa Pearce, a core founder since 1989, of the horse-human healing movement.

We were honored that Melisa Pearce chose our organization for their benefit dinner during Summit to raise funds for operational expenses such as our Women Veteran Retreats.

Cowboy Up! program co-director Nancy De Santis speaking with Melisa Pearce about our Cowboy Up! program.

It was a fun evening with amazing people!

Photo by: Sara Sherman

September 26th, 2012

Board and Batten going up quickly!

A special visit from our good friend, Double H Boots President Greg Crouchly, here with our A-Team.

September 27th, 2012

Purple Heart warrior!!!

Sep 19, 2012

Nice Weekend!

September 15th, 2012

This past weekend we gathered cattle with Program Partner Mr. McKinley to prepare for shipping. A lovely day it was. Cowboy Up! participant and graduate, Chris Chaisson did a great job ~ everyday his knowledge keeps increasing, and from what we see, he's taken to it very well!

September 15th, 2012

Sunday brought us to an early morning rise to gather once again, to sort and ship. Below is a shot up the alleyway where cattle come in and are sorted from calf and cow into steer pens and heifer pens. Everything went quite smoothly!

Critters are let in the alley...

Then sorted into steer and heifer pens.

After sorting, cattle are counted out...

...gathered up the alley and loaded.

View from middle of alley. Working from horseback and...

...afoot. Great job Chris!

Smooth as silk.

That morning while out gathering Rick received a phone call asking if we could use some horse equipment, so later that afternoon we headed out to meet some of the nicest folks!

Much needed panels will make a nice addition for our new addition...