Pandemonium Adagio, Awsom Pandemonium, and Pandemonium Angelina.
Mid 2000 Sales
Joyce Riley, IA, and her daughter Darcie are purchasing the good natured gelding OMYWHAT PANDEMONIUM, (SX OMGA x HAAP LOUISE) who has broken out with a super attitude and can-do spirit. His first meeting with the family, he patiently carried whichever of the children screamed to sit on a horse the loudest.
Three of the family rode him on the next visit, and he tried to do what was expected for them all.
The third trip resulted in the purchase contract being signed. He was brushed and pampered and again acquitted himself well.
Joyce has been regaling me with his adventures after arriving home.
Jess Wiltamuth has added yet another piece of PANDEMONIUM to his growing collection in the form of the towering COLONEL BOB PANDEMONIUM (ROL RAVEN x PANDEMONIUM CARIÑOSA), who Jess invisions being his companion on various treks through the Rocky Mountains as a mature horse. With his long strided walk and smooth gaits, it ought to be some comfortable riding.
Winter is still having old friends show up as buyers. The latest lady to jump into PANDEMONIUM with both feet is Cindi Rust, of Colorado. Her mare Nikki (whom I once almost bought, as though I NEED another horse around here) needed a buddy, so I sent her the friendliest guy I had, PANDEMONIUM SOMBRERO.
Cindi called on a Saturday, and SOMBRERO was at his duty post, willing to serve as "buddy in residence", by the following Saturday. Cindi reports that her non-horsey husband was the one home to take the delivery. The man was out in the pasture, petting him, when she arrived. I think he's made his first conquest. Of course, the van folks, Nationwide, helped out by regaling him with stories of how the four yearlings kept coming into the barn and wanting attention while they were getting the bale of hay and shipping papers signed. They are so spoiled that they could not conceive of any other reason for humans to be on their turf than to pet them. They followed them all the way to the gate (when they HAD plenty of hay in two other locations.)
The guys from the van company showed up at PANDEMONIUM around 11:30. By ten to 12, they were rolling out of here.
Some excitement happened. They had a Percheron/TB cross filly (read HUGE and POWERFUL) in the center on one side and were going to stick SOMBRERO next to her. The driver's buddy was snoozing in the sleeper, so the one fellow was doing it alone.
He got the ramp out, opened the door, and that enormous filly immediately decided to UNLOAD HERSELF. Just looking at the set-up, one would not believe she COULD get out with the stuff still in the middle of the doorway, but she did. She was still chained. Then she reversed herself on the ramp, in the dark, and I feared she would go off the edge and HANG. Had she done THAT, God only could have saved her. A semi bed is a fur piece from the ground.
The driver was pretty cool. He soothed her, reached over her head for a lead rope, switched from chain to lead rope, and when she would not calmly reenter the trailer, tied her at the back of the rig for a little cooling off spell.
He clamly and quietly got the sides on the ramp and the post out of the middle of the trailer. Sombrero and I stood there watching in the driveway patiently. He then tried to reload the mare. She was quite a PILL. Finally his buddy came out to help.
The mare was part way up the ramp and would not go further. They both clucked to her, but she was not being cooperative. The other guy tried to get her moving from behind, but she took quite a pot shot at him, aiming. Eventually, she got slapped, but she needed to be slapped.
The second guy then stood at the mare's head, keeping it pushed over so she saw the wall, not open space. Both guys were very low key and calm throughout. One of them appologized for getting "so rough" with the mare.
"A flat handed, nice resounding smack that has a large retort should have immediately followed that kick. There is a time and a place for discipline. I'm not talking about a case of 'knock them around,' but letting something that size walk all over you is no good, either. "
"How does yours handle?"
"Well, if he acts like that, I'll be very disappointed in him."
I did tell him that clucks meant, "Get out of here," to mine, and said he spoke English.
As they started up the ramp, he said in a clear voice of command, "Walk."
Sombrero started up and stood part way on, checking things out, especially HER, as he's never seen anything that BIG, or gray. He was curious, and not at all upset. I came right up behind him, leaning on his rear a bit for two reasons: 1) so they would realize that he was NOT a kicker, and 2) to provide him with reasurrance that this was an okay place to be and a thing to do.
When he put his head down to sniff the floor, the guy bent over with him. He talked to him low and quite, and Sombrero walked on in with no upset, no fuss. I was really proud of him. I stood at his head, tipping it toward the inside as the other man was doing with the gray, as the driver collapsed the sides and replaced the post in the middle of the opening. I sure did NOT want to see another horse hurtling off a semi into blackness. I was SURE SOMBRERO would fit through the opening even with the post back in the middle.
The drivers met the four yearlings after that, clucking to encourage them to leave the barn repeatedly. They wouldn't stay gone very long at all. People are MAGNETS, attracting them repeatedly. DEBUT showed up at the closest point of the stud pen fence... Vivacious Vivian, one of the calico barn cats, sat on the bale they were trying to remove from the stack, the Irish Setter was all over with us...just your typical PANDEMONIUM.
This fall seems to have been a time for repeat customers. Josh Johnson, Nashua, IA, who bought his first horse here at age 12, and his second at 13, resurfaced at 22, after some bigger fish this time: PANDEMONIUM LYRE, (ROL RAVEN x HAAP LOUISE), an extremely typy, 97.8% Arabian, chestnut tobiano stallion with a huge trot.
LYRE is one of the precocious ones. Josh met him while he was trying to pour cement to set the front porch posts in. He extended a hose from Lyre's water tank's faucet as far toward the front porch as it would reach, then filled buckets with the needed water to mix the cement.
Although his water tank was full, that was BORING water. The water Josh carried to the front porch, however, was endlessly INTERESTING. He appointed himself the official tester to be sure the quality was up to snuff. A little sip from each one ought to suffice...
LYRE had been ridden about 12 times, so Josh got to ride him at a pretty early stage in his training. He went well that first day with Jesse there to superintend, then again climbed on him the next day. By day three, he was hooked. None of that "this horse is cheaper" stuff for Josh. Go for the budget-breaker...
Well, once you have a stallion, your next order of business is a FARM to put him on, right? Josh solved that problem right before Christmas by buying a Victorian mansion he plans to renovate with his superior carpentry skills, turning it into a bed and breakfast in the picturesque Nashua (of "Little Brown Church in the Dell" fame) area. LYRE will populate a rose garden pathway to the barn in a most engaging fashion. In fact, he may be living in Josh's front yard behind an electrical wire, like he does here, for a bit until the ground thaws out well enough for the fencing to happen.
I can just see it now: What a partnership! Man and faithful horse rebuilding the house. Move the nose, pound the nail, move the nose...
"Get back here with my can of nails!"
"Drop that hammer!"
"You'd better NOT sample that electric cord on the drill, if you know what's good for you! You know how you dislike being zapped by the electric fencer! Well, this will make that seem like a mosquito bite compared to a rattler's."
I'm sure Josh will keep us posted on his progress.
Shortly after beginning to purchase Lyre, Josh bought an old Victorian style mansion he intended to fix up as a bed and breakfast, or a rental house.
Owning an old house can really be economically strapping as the renovations always head into outer space. Josh ended up having to return Lyre to keep up with it. We were both very sad over it. When I was purchasing my farm, my motto when someone wanted one of the "keepers" was, "No one horse is worth the farm."
Jess Wiltamuth, Allerton, IA, had a bit of bad luck with his first colt, PANDEMONIUM SONNEY. We were going to try to get a shot for the "Got Milk" commercial which involved Jesse and SONNEY head to head, both with a milk mustache, dam PANDEMONIUM KARESS in the background, shot low so the "faucet" would show...
While the colt was tied to the fence on a very short chain, he somehow flipped over and strangled himself. Unabashed, Jesse cried as he cradled him in his arms.
Shortly after that, he began talking about a half brother, PANDEMONIUM COMMOTION, (SX OMEGA, x PANDE CANTA LIBRE), who slowly began to fill the emotional void left by SONNEY's untimely and tragic demise. This bigger boned colt has a world of motion, and Jesse is thinking of trying to show either him or the purebred filly he is working off, PANDEMONIUM SHALOM, (SX OMEGA, x PANDEMONIUM CHIME). COMMOTION is a bay with an attitude. He already knows he's someone special in Jesse's world. He accidentally got out in the hay field, which does NOT have any water. When I got home, I went to let him back into the colt pasture. No dice. I was NOT his person. He ran around, showing off that gorgous motion he has. So I decided he would not die of thirst before Jesse came out in a few hours.
He didn't. I think he is heading toward being a one man horse, which pleases Jesse no end. Or maybe he just had a case of the "colt sillies". Times like that, I resent that I didn't have the video camera strapped to my head! Beautiful colt, beautiful background... Jess's Adventures.
Sue Alarie, THREE WISHES ARABIANS, Farmington, IA, has leased the straight Egyptian mare PSA ALLEGRA and bred her to ROL RAVEN for 2000. She's hoping for a black-bay or black purebred, preferably filly, of course! This is the first time "Betty" has been bred to Raven, so we are all waiting anxiously to see what this cross will produce.
Jess Wiltamuth, Allerton, IA, in addition to working with his own colt, keeps a hand on the other '99 foals, rides DAWNS DARCIE for his mother, taking various others down the road with him, and saddled PANDEMONIUM LYRE, PANDEMONIUM SERENA, PANDEMONIUM HOPE and PANDEMONIUM CANELA for the first time, proceeding to green break all four. Then he did the lion's share of the halter training on PANDEMONIUM OMBRE. He's had a leg over every animal old enough to ride here, including SX OMEGA, at age 26, ROL RAVEN, who had not been ridden for eleven years, and PANDEMONIUM DEBUT, who had never been ridden outside of Leon Matthias's indoor arena, where he was broke. He's a valuable chap to have around.
He reminds me of myself at that age. I would DO ANYTHING to be near someone's horse. I had to shovel for two hours to ride for 30 min...
So, how do you keep such a one down on the farm? You let a pretty face, coupled with sexy legs, a knock-out body, and a pleasing disposition, wrapped in his favorite shade of wrapper, do the job for you. This delictable creature is the bright chestnut purebred filly PANDEMONIUM SHALOM, (SX OMEGA, x PANDEMONIUM CHIME). The first time he saw her, she hooked him with that "pet ME" disposition and flaxen mane liberally sprinkled with white hairs falling gracefully over her shapely neck.
We had some potential customers from Kansas with us, so he tried to act disinterested (pretty hard to do with the horse in question attached to the end of one appendage or the other of your body,) but he did it, not trusting to the fact that they were after a Pinto. Since she is one of only three purebred fillies here from OMEGA, she was quite a bit beyond the reach of a high school senior who is making his own way through the world, so a fast deal was struck: Trade for his services...
Theresa Williams, Kellogg, IA, came down on a Harley with her friend, and left with a horse under her... Pandemonium Karess. Actually, the mare wasn't slated to leave until the end of August, when her '99 foal was weaned. She had by then been rebred to ROL RAVEN for 2000 for a hopefully Pinto foal. Teresa ended up moving to Wisconsin, and was unable to take the mare with her, so she is again available.
Jody and Nicole Brewer, MT, got the 4/4/99 chestnut tobiano colt PANDEMONIUMS REVIVAL (ROL RAVEN x PANDEMONIUM DE NADA). Jesse had him leading very well, so even though the shipper showed up a week early and after dark, this little sweetie hopped right aboard as if he had been loaded every day of his life. REVIVAL in "God's Country".
Pam, Jessica, and Jeremy Vaughn became attached to DLA MORNINGSTARR the day her PANDEMONIUM DEBUT foal was born. Jeremy actually had picked her out before she foaled. She's left for her new home near Lineville, IA. She's to be bred to ROL RAVEN early in 2000. Her '99 son, PANDEMON BLAZING STAR, has turned into a big pet.
PANDEMONIUM SONNEY, a 97.8% Arabian chestnut colt born 4/16/99, (SX OMEGA, x PANDEMONIUM KARESS), has taken over ownership of Jess Wiltamuth, Allerton, IA. Jesse is one of those special persons that horses just want to adopt. Quite a few here vie for his favors, which he graciously spreads around.
Nancy Wiltamuth, Allerton, IA, comes out every year to check out the stock available from my "adoption agency". Her daughter Sarah bought PANDEMONIUM BOW (ROL RAVEN x PANDEMONIUM PUNCTUATION) back in 1993. This time, with her son Jesse in tow, DAWNS DARCIE ( SULTAN KHARAFF+ x IK CRESCENT DAWN found her.
Darcie did her "crinkle a peppermint wrapper at me, and I'll follow you anywhere" routine for her. Nancy, softhearted as ever, bought her AN ENTIRE BAG.
Darcie, a 15.1 hand purebred mare, had not been ridden in a while. Jesse hopped right up, with me trying to lunge her on a 15' lead rope. She turned, catching it under her tail, and Jesse went for quite a first ride. She stopped against the yard fence, which has a 1 x 6 solid native oak board across the top. Had it just been the horse wire, I bet she'd be running still! Once that hoopla settled down, she began to remember her training, and Jesse returned to ride her often. His mother came out as time allowed. Between the two of them, she is coming along nicely. She's to be bred to PANDEMONIUM DEBUT for a hopefully Pinto foal in 2001.
Deniese Sigwalt, Ugotasea Our Arabians and Arabian Pintos, Lucas, Iowa, is the proud new owner of the elegant chestnut two year old stallion, PANDEMONIUM OMBRE (SX OMEGA, x PANDEMONIUM COQET). Potential mare owners who want to avail themselves of this excellent source of old blood up close in a pretty package with a sweet temperment can contact her for stud fees.OMBRE Photos.
In keeping with a new promotion campaign, I am adding a bit of explanation of Deniese's farm name. If you pronounce it all out in correct English, it reads, "You've Got To See Our Arabians." Cute and clever. She's got a collection of hip pocket nuzzlers, too.
Chris Wade, IA, has added yet another Pandemonium to her collection, Sassy Salina, (ROL RAVEN x PANDEMONIUM ANGEL) a chestnut 1999 filly. SALINA is ANGEL's second solid color ever. She joins PANDEMONIUM RUNE (ROL RAVEN x EMLY) a black-bay purebred Arabian gelding, PANDEMONIUM MARIE (ROL RAVEN x PANDEMONIUM CARIÑOSA), a bay mare who should have been a Pinto, and CHENO (PANDEMONIUM DEBUT x PANDEMONIUM MARIE), a bay tobiano colt.
Deniese Sigwald, UGOTASEA OUR ARABIANS, Lucas, IA, has sold her filly UGOTASEA AMBER ROSE (PANDEMONIUM DEBUT x DAWNS DARCIE), a bay partbred, to IL.
yearling photo
Cathy Rollins, Hudson, IA, reported that on Dec. 16th, 1998, she sold KATIEE, (ROL RAVEN x MAR O DEE by PtHA Ch. JAY DEE .
Cathy writes, "Richard and Virginia Gerke picked her up this afternoon. He bought her for his daughter who has a 27 year old Arab now. She lives in Winthrop, Minnesota, and is in very poor health.
"He said he's buying KATIEE as therapy for his daughter. She needs the incentive of having a horse to care for and love to keep her motivated and active. He said she also cares for abandoned dogs that are resuced in her area by police and help her with financial needs for the dogs. He plans on taking KATIEE to her sometime in February.
"Meanwhile he asked me to send a picture of Mar and KATIEE. He wants to put it in his Christmas card for her to see. He told me if she becomes unable to care for KATIEE, he plans to bring her home for his own. He already said he is afraid his wife is going to be very attached to KATIEE before he moves her north!
"I think she will have plenty of love and good care, but it is hard to see her go."
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