About Us  ......

 

Linda Sterling

and

Her piece of Paradise

in

Cortez

Colorado

  

 

MY LIFE WAS SET AT AGE SIX

( I just didn't know it until age 50)
I was a horse crazy little girl; so many of us were. I didn't get one and I am quite sure that warped me.

 In my 50s I got a HORSE and became myself!


A STERLING AND A SILVER
Hanging out at the Gang Training Stable in Chino Valley Arizona, I mused out loud that some day, certainly not very soon, I maybe would get a horse. Gary asked me offhandedly what I would want. He knew just the horse for me and told me her name: SILVER and then asked why I was laughing. Just three days before I had appeared in court to change my name to STERLING! I am not superstitious but who could resist this?

 

DEEP IN THE GRIP OF HORSE FEVER
Although I wanted to breed Silver, the timing wasn't right. So I thought maybe I could buy a mare already in foal and found a lovely girl named Margaret.  Due to a bad case of horse fever, I thought why buy just one, when there was Margaret's half sister Savannah, also in foal to a fabulous stallion. . So presto, I had two more horses, they had a filly and a colt and presto, I had two more horses.

 

Then.....

Oh, that was just the beginning.  My dear Dude (see his story on the stallion page) became available, then another mare, and another....  It is soooo easy to acquire broodmares.  Then December 2005 came the Mid-Adlantic Auction.  AND for the first time, it was going to be on live streaming video online!!!  I bought three mares there (Paris, Becky and Radiant).

So many things have changed in the past year (2006)   Fences are now up, we have a round pen, we built a 6-8 stall barn, installed foaling cameras, have so many halters and lead ropes, and all that lovely horse equipment.

 

Now.........

So many things changed again..........

We moved to Cortez Colorado (August 2007)

We traded five acres of dirt for 20 acres of grass,,,,, seemed like a good idea.

And here's what's funny:  see the barn-warming party below.....we took it down and moved it!  That barn is now in Colorado and when we get it up, we will have a barn-warming party here in Cortez.....for the very same barn!!!

Here's a sample of our new place, 20 acres a beautiful grass, a pond and a fixer house.

 

 

 

We are so lucky to have Ashley Hamilton move with us to Colorado.  She shares

the house and shares this Colorado adventure! 

 She is a very talented trainer; see her on the training page      

 

 

 

 Angela Stewart came to visit, kept coming back, then volunteered to clean (yipppeeeeee)  Finally we had to put her on the payroll and now she comes two days a week.   

Sadly, we had to leave Angela in Arizona.  Somehow she did not think that trading her long term relationship for horses and poop would be a good trade!  But she has been up to visit us several times and we miss her.

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This is Jasmine, the ranch Papillon.  You may think she is a small fluffy dog, but believe me, she is a BIG dog in a small body.  She is also the other adult on the place.   This is our largest and smallest dogs, Hercules and Dorothy (top). 
They are the best of friends, because Hercules allows Dorothy to boss him around.

We had a barn warming party in October 2006 in Chino Valley AZ, with good food and good people.

 

 

     

 

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