This year’s Berkley Benefit was another success. Chip pulled together a great night of fun, food, and music. We saw some friends we hadn’t seen in a while and that was awesome. Bill and I appreciate our old friends from the Detroit area pitching in and helping us with funds to care for these kids. […]
Author Archives: Bonny Livernois
Group Hug
Two Fridays ago on Y.T. Play Day, the weather was not great. Our first snow flurries! However, we had a few kids willing to bear the cold with the horses and we went out in the arena and played around with the horses. Didn’t go out on the field, it was just too cold. Also, […]
Young Travelers Bonfire
Last Saturday we had a fall bonfire for our Young Travelers groups; both boys and girls. We had a lot of fun. The weather was beautiful; couldn’t have been better. All the kids got to ride, shoot archery, and play games. We did three races, two with brown feed bags. Ashley and I teamed up […]
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Two evenings this past week, we had a few groups out to the ranch for a trail ride and campfire. What a pleasure it was to serve these folks who take their time out of a busy schedule to mentor youth. Four “matches” came on Tues. and five “matches” came on Thurs. The weather was […]
Young Travelers Last Day – Persistence
Well this Monday was our last day for this Young Travelers group. Our lesson for the night was persistence. I have to say that these 4 boys were very persistent in learning about horses. One was very frightened at the beginning, but by the eighth week he was riding out in the field with the […]
George & Johnathan’s First Ride
Today we tacked up George for the first time since he came to us last week. He is settling in and he has become boss over the herd. We kind of figured that would happen. Leslie, from Equestrian Outreach, told us that he bossed her herd around too. Sometimes this is hard to watch because […]
Young Travelers Play Day 10/8/10
Today was an accomplished day! Austin got the thumbs up from grandma Donna to go out in the field with the “good ole boys”. He was very excited and I totally understand. I remember when I was learning to ride and started to go on the trail. It was very exciting. We had 7 kids […]
Young Travelers – Forgiveness 10/4/10
It was a beautiful day and we had a lot of fun with the horses. Tonight’s lesson was on forgiveness and the boys had to maneuver their horses around an obstacle course again. This time they had to back up their horses while pulling a bale of hay. This was very challenging, but the boys […]
Miss Elaine’s Group
This past Saturday we had a group come to the ranch from South Street Church of God. The weather was not the greatest, rain mostly. But that did not stop the kids from having a good time. They still were able to go to the barn and meet and greet the animals, shoot archery, and […]
Ranch Benefit
Mark your calendars for Chip’s annual charity benefit. It will be again at the Berkley Front in Berkley Michigan; Saturday, November 6th at 7:00 p.m. He has three bands on the schedule. Should be a great time. We are trying to raise money for food and gas for our Young Travelers program. Twice a week […]