warmed by Windchill

Tennessee Walking Horses / Gaited Horses
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Welcome to Raindance
'Breeding hope for a better tomorrow'

Home to 18 Tennessee Walking Horses, 2 spotted saddle horses,  1 miniature horse, and the memory and spirit of a little Walkaloosa colt named Windchill, and his half-sister Isabelle. This is also the home of Walker, an Australian Shepherd, a collie puppy named Halo, 3 adult cats (Tiger, Olivia and Cookie, 2 kittens (Crash and Eddie), and a humungous garage frog.

Located in South Range, Wisconsin, our herd enjoys lush pastures, rolling hills, fields, trails and forests giving us the room we need for all the training, boarding, breeding and riding. The variety of terrain in the surrounding area gives our horses a wider breadth of experience - everything from riding an open field to alongside a road, to trails, to climbing hills in the woods as well as riding alongside, through and over streams.  Combine that experience with kids coming to visit and dogs running alongside on our rides and you'll find our horses to be fairly 'laid back' and friendly!


     
     


Raindance Webcam, Picture, Blog & Horse Sale Links

Raindance Horse Company, LLC's Horses for Sale
(and from time to time you might find a few other surprises for sale here)

Raindance Barn Cams
(which should be working now, the inside cam is intermittent though...)

Raindance Pasture Cam
(faces trailer parking/riding pen/barn)

More than a trainer
Friends We Remember (memorial page)

Raindance Farms/Jeffrey L. Tucker's official blog site
(the entire blog archive has been moved to this new site
NOW NEW AND IMPROVED WITH PHOTO GALLERIES - WOOHOO)

Coming to visit Raindance Farms, LLC - Barn Rules & Directions

Jeffrey L Tucker | Create Your Badge
Jeffrey L Tucker
(updated regularly via iphone - woohoo!)  


June 25, 2010: Happy birthday Rain. You would've been 9 today. sigh.

June 24, 2010: A very busy week at Raindance! We are pleased to announce the birth of another filly, again born in the middle of the night and apparently several of you were able to watch this entire birth as well on the webcams. I saw it live and can honestly say I like the part after the baby's born better than watching it actually be born!  Mommy Grace and little girl are doing great. You can watch both new families on the webcams.

June 21, 2010, 8:43am: We are very proud to announce that the first foal of the year was born in the middle of the night. Mommy Hurricane Bonnie (Bonnie) gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. Proud owners Ken & Darlene Burgess have named the filly Simply Summer Solstice (Summer). She's a gorgeous spotted saddle horse and VERY sweet, letting us pet her and coming up to us within hours of her birth. Congratulations Burgess family on your new addition - WOOHOO! As requested by Darlene, our featured song in honor of the birth is "After Midnight" by Eric Clapton.

June 19, 2010, 4:47pm: We've installed a new webcam in the barn to replace that piece of crap that worked intermittently and was the bane of my existence. The new cam has a night light on it - if you do use that at night, please remember to turn the light off when you're done viewing. The horses need their sleep as well and you probably don't like a bright white LED light in your eyes at night so please be considerate of them. I've got the light on a 'slider' so you don't have to turn it to the fully bright, I'm awake I'm awake setting...enjoy folks!

June 3, 2010, 8:15pm: Raindance Farms & The WindChill Legacy, Ltd. are about to welcome their newest arrival - Jazz! Jazz is a miniature horse who has been under training at L&L Ranch (Ann & Jody) so that she can join Magic the mini on outreach visits. Jazz should be arriving shortly! You can see her on the cams.

May 30, 2010, 9:52am: Happy Memorial Day weekend everyone! FYI, the webcams are mostly back up and running. The inside barn cam is intermittent - the cam itself is bad I think. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I've re-programmed it now so many times I actually know how... I've ordered a newer model to replace that cam so we should have good clear viewing for when the foals are due.

UPDATE, 10:31am: I've consolidated the 2 barn cams onto one page, please let me know what you think, okay?  If it works in various browsers, that will allow more people to view the birth of the foals and not kill our bandwidth! Here's the address:

Raindance Barn Cams

February 28, 2010, 7:16pm: Wow. 2 years ago tonight. A lot sure happens in two years, doesn't it? So many posts, the posts were so positive. 2 years ago February 28th was a big day for the little man, he was very active, excited, we had had a pizza party with him. The posts are all programmed into the blog site, all the way through early March. I'm amazed at how much occurred. How busy today was in his life two years ago. And it still would never have occurred to me there weren't many more busy days ahead for Windchill.

February 14, 2010, 9:41am: First of all, Happy Valentine's Day everyone - the horses of Raindance have been swapping hay in celebration of today. As promised, the blog of events that I posted in 2008 of Windchill's days has begun appearing on my blog site. While you're starting to see the beginning days of Windchill's arrival here, I'm about half way through in programming them in to appear just as they did in 2008. It's a more difficult task than I had anticipated. I avoid going back and re-reading for the reasons I noted below. It's amazing, I still feel the hope we felt as I wrote those words. Like re-reading a favorite book or seeing again a movie with a sad ending - yet as you read or watch you still hope, you hope that maybe this time it will end differently... Now having gone back and re-read my words after initially posting I guess I can see why so many suggested I combine them into a book of some sort. Nowadays I wonder if there would still be the interest if I did. I started on the first book. But re-reading his story brings it all back and it makes me wonder how authors do it when they write of what they experienced...

February 9, 2010, 10pm: This is the night of the anniversary of our bringing Windchill to Raindance. I was talking to Grama Carole and Paula this evening and we talked about this day. For myself, the feelings grow as the time approaches and then I remember - I remember dragging Windchill across a pasture, I remember how hard it was to breathe in that bitter cold... I thought about what to write and realized it's already been written. I also realized that on the official Windchill site, pieces of the original story are missing - there was a lot to transfer in all the blogs. So I decided how to honor Windchill's story. On the Raindance blog site, over the course of the next 20 days I will be posting the story - EXACTLY as it occurred during the 20 days with Windchill. It will be programmed to appear on the blog at the exact same time and day that the original blogs appeared. I time dated the blogs as most of you know making recreation fairly easy. Some of the blogs weren't time dated - they were explanations, feelings, in some cases justifications - like the reason "why". I had forgotten about having to write "why." I block much of the memories because to go back opens it all in a torrent of feelings. Exhaustion. Pain. Worry. Cold. Bitter, bitter cold. Weariness from a 20 hour a day schedule - we divided the night in half, Kathi taking the first 4 hour sleep shift, and I got the next 4 hour shift. So over the next 20 days I will be posting the blogs - keep in mind the official blog I started didn't start February 9th - it started between the 12th and 13th of February, 2008 at the request of the newspaper who was being bombarded with phone calls. Due to the volume they asked if they could set a blog for me to post updates and I didn't want to to learn some new software so said I would blog but do it on this website. So over the next 20 days the Windchill story unfolds, just as it did in 2008. (It will be posted on the Raindance/Jeffrey L. Tucker blog site, not this page - the blog software allows me to do the scheduled posts)

Raindance Horse Company, LLC's Horses for Sale

August 6, 2009: Simply Chaos...

Simply Chaos at Raindance Farms, LLC

Downright uncanny, isn't it?

 


The new blog is located at: 
Raindance Farms & Jeffrey L. Tucker's official new blog site


candle burning for Windchill

Jordan Lee Tucker

 

Jordan Lee Tucker
(click on name to go to his page)
November 10, 1990 - November 15, 2008

 


WindChill
May 28, 2007 - February 29, 2008

Windchill's Goodbye Message To Us

Windchill BBQ Videos
(BBQ pictures are posted on the blog site:
2009 BBQ Photos)

Windchill Links:
Windchill's Story
The WindChill Legacy site
Sign Windchill's Guest Book
See Windchill's Original Guest Book & Memorials

Windchill's letter to all the children who wrote him

CANDLELIGHT VIGIL PICTURES
(you can send your pictures/comments to: Jeff@raindancehorses.com)
Windchill's Photo Gallery

To our many good friends - the members of our Windchill family - thank you. Thank you for your support, your prayers, your thoughts and the donations that made his non-profit Legacy possible. Together we've done amazing things. Together we've reached out because we all know...

…”Maybe somewhere deep in each being’s heart and soul is a belief that it can be loved and that’s what WindChill holds on to…” (Jeff Tucker)

 

 


The country life:
"
I live out on the backroads
Where I walk my country mile
And if it’s so good in the city
Why don’t anybody smile?
The traffic’s always heavy
And the air ain’t fit to breathe
I ain’t saying that it’s wrong for you
It just don’t make
sense to me.." (Toby Keith)

CAUTION! BEWARE OF VIRTUAL GUARD DOG


Well. Maybe just be careful not to trip over him as you peruse the site.

 

Now playing...

Bummage you're missing a good song!
  

 


Hey Osama, you can
run but you'll only die tired.


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Raindance Farms, LLC is now powered by commitments to renewable energy resources. Resources 'made' entirely in United States of America - wind power and biomass (cow power).

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