An inch closer (though further away)

I've been doing a horrible job updating but I'm going to blame that on the fact that I rarely get to see Cody and Axel.  So last we left it was in the fall of 2014.  When the pasture grass started getting thin we moved Cody and Axel to a family friend's place in exchange for hay for the winter.  He has several horses so the boys got to pal around with a real herd for quite a while actually.  I tried to ride a couple times but in usual Cody fashion, he didn't want to go anywhere and Axel's arthritis is getting so bad he was a trip hazard.  We brought the horses back into town for a long weekend to work on some volunteer wheat again and give some rides in the yard.  At one point the property that they were staying at changed hands so the horses all moved to another paddock/pasture out 4 miles from the farm for the winter/spring/part of this summer.  And now finally they boys are staying at a friend's place for a couple months.  I'm really trying to get them moved as close as possible to me so when we move out there I can handle the care of them. Axel is getting thin and I really want to get him some grain on a regular basis and see if he'll fatten up.  And I'd like to blanket him this winter if he's going to stay on the thin side but I'd need to be able to check on him regularly if I do that.  Plans are still rolling around in my head on how to accomplish that.

So until then, they are a tiny step closer even though they are a few miles further away from us right now.