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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
(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...
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Downright uncanny, isn't it?
The new blog is located at:
Raindance Farms & Jeffrey L. Tucker's official new blog site
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)
Well. Maybe just be careful not to trip over him as you peruse the site.
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