Me and My Girl****Update with foal photos

I have posted pics of most of our horses but not too many of our Grand Dam, Charm. She was 33 on May 24 and is our offical pasture ornament. She has spent that past few summers with my sister and her horses who are mere youngsters at 23, 25. If you look closely at my avitar you can see her standing under the tree.

Charm and I will be celebrating 33 years together on Friday. I brought her home on November 6, 1976. She was a skinny little bay filly that I bought with 2 years worth of babysitting money. She wasn't too much to look at at the time but I thought she was beautiful and still do. Her registered name is Four Aces Charm, she was born in Ontario and brought to NB with 6 other foals in a cap on the back of a halfton after being weaned at 2 months old. She had a rough start but I lke to think that helped make her tough. We have both gone gray together and any weight she has lost, I seem to have gained so I guess we are still working as a team. She and I showed for a few years and after I was married my sister rode her for a couple of seasons as well. She has been a great broodmare and produced 10 beautiful foals for us. She can be a stubborn and pig headed at times but then again so can I...maybe that has been our secret.

Thanks, Charm for 33 wonderful years



Today after arriving back home



On her 33rd Birthday



Two old dames



A long, long time ago




*****UPDATE*****

I went through some old albums and a few more pics. I apologize for the quality of some of the pictures...they were taken with a little instatmatic long before my first 35mm even. Charm produced 10 foals between 1981 and 1997, 6 AQHA and 4 Paints. I found pics of 6 of the 10. Still looking...bringing back lots of memories...gotta love pictures.

Pic of Charm as a four year old



Foal #2 Filly Candida Jack by Cleawater Jack 1982



Foal # 3 Filly Patsy's Charm 1984 by Patsy Redwood



Foal #5 Filly Aces Silver Lace 1989 by Silver Rocks Orion



Foal #7 Colt Cowboys Thunder 1992 by Scenics Cowboy



Foal #8 Colt Charms Last Charm 1994 by Scenics Cowboy



Foal #10 Filly Texas Heartbreaker 1997 by Forum Texas Double

Wow...great story!

I hope I have my Katie that long... It makes me happy to think we are not even half way there yet... (She is only 12)..

Thanks for sharing. :)

That is beautiful! She is in very good shape!

I also hope to have Dawson that long :)

Aww you two are so lucky to have one another!!!

That is a long time to have a her, you must have a great bond with eachother.

I was at your brother's business in Debert last week and he was telling me about this horse you've had for so long. Pretty sure he said Charm.

Awesome girl she looks great... Thanks for sharing your story and pictures....

what fabulous memories you must have............sure would like to see pictures of all 10 of her foals........you both look mighty COOL in the original picture. She looks like a real GRAND DAM for sure




HAPPY BIRHTDAY CHARM........ :birday-8.gif:

She looks amazing for a grand old gal
lovely story, rarely do horses get history that long with one owner.
she's a very lucky horse

Happy 33 years of togetherness for you both!! how great that you still have her, she is a pretty girl i do like Bay's......i too would like to see pictures of all her foals if you have them...

Awww what a heart-warming story...love her pics now and when she was a baby!

Wonderful! What a lucky little filly she was to have you buy her 33 years ago! Few horses get the love and care that you've given your old girl. She looks great for 33.

wonderful.. she looks amazing.. like Joan's Abbey.. what great lives they have..
Happy Birthday Charm!!!!!!!!!

She is just a jem!!! What an awsome story!!!!! Were there any times that you thought you might lose her to colic of foaling issues but she always pulled through??? you two are very lucky to have each other.....


I hope to have the same story to tell when Oakie gets older......

Happy 33 :flower:

That is definitely something very special!!

Fabulous pictures!!!

Thanks everybody. Charm is pretty special. She spends the summer months with my sister who pampers and spoils her like crazy. She just came home for the winter a few days ago. She has a wonderful love/hate relationship with my hubby and didn't want to come in for him the first night she was back home. She ran in the opposite direction the whole lenght of the pasture and he went after her grumbling something about.."old nag...stay out if you want to..etc" but he walked the lenght of the field to go get her only to have her run back to the barn...over the hill he came grumbling something about "...gonna outlive me yet" BUT he made sure that she had lots extra bedding and fine hay etc.....he's a softie.
She has always been vey healthy. A few years ago she developed some calcuim deposits in a front foot but other than that she is doing fine. She had a lame spell earlier this summer but my sister think now that perhaps she may have cast herself in her stall one night and was lame from that. The lamenes is almost all gone and mobility has slowed done but she can stay ahead of a grumbling hubby so she is doin' fine. She always went way overdue when foaling but always foaled without any problem and I have never had her colic.
I feel very fortunate to have had this long experience with her. My sister has also had her mare from birth and they have almost 26 years together so we are both lucky.

I also will try to post pics of some of Charm's foals. I have pics of some of them.....a lot of years to go back through to find them..I will do my best.

this warms my heart. What a team you two are. And I have pictures in my head of hubby walking after her and grumbling all the way. Sounds like something Lord Gord would do - and then give her an extra treat!

I was touched by the story of you and this horse.....too bad all horses couldn't be so lucky. She does look great; and I also had quite a chuckle picturing your husband trying to get her. Sounds like she was having a great time at his expense

what a great story congrats on being together for 33 years.
My mom and i joke that our 45 year old pony will need to be willed to my grandkids

So this is the old lady you always talk about.. Congrats on the 33rd anniversary!!! She's a very lucky gal to have had such a great life!

she sure got better at giving you beautiful babies as she went along.............the painted babies are amazing........do you still know where they are too or is that waaaaaaaaaaay tooooooooo much to hope for................glad you had a chance to find great pictures ............ :cowboyhound.gi

All of Charm's foals were nice, the earlier pics don't do those babies justice. She had 2 blood bays, a black bay, black and 2 chestnut. All of her Paint babies colored. The other Paint foal was a sabino filly out of Nimbleflitsredneck. I have managed to keep track of most of the foals over the years. A few are now deceased. The oldest is now 24 and still going strong and lives not too far away.

wow!!!!! she gave you some nice foals, i esp love the 2 by "Scenic cowboy" beautiful !!!!!! must be nice going for a trip down memory lane !!!