Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Slate River Ranch, Weatherford, Texas





Check out this ranch we stayed at one night while we were in Dallas! The owner (Glade Knight) owns one of the the Learjets where Joe works, and Joe has flown Glade a lot in the past. This ranch is a real working/breeding farm where they raise, train and compete (on National levels!) cattle cutting horses. We stayed in the "bunkhouse" in the Outback Suite (pictured above). It is totally cool! We got some neat ideas for when we build our next house. It was so relaxing to stay out there on that huge ranch and walk around visiting all the horses. Their breeding barn is really neat - they have their own lab & do artificial insemination, and even use "surrogate" mares for all the foals, since they compete with their champion mares and don't want to mess up their game, so to speak! Very, very cool!!