Here’s a whole album, including a couple of videos…
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She’s lovely!
You 2 had quite the career 
Thanks for sharing her pics.
I’m thinking he’ll go for this Boudoir shot:
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It’s harder if you board a good distance from your house, and are not in a $1k/month program where the barn staff takes care of things like blankets.
I have to do a deep dive on the long-range weather forecast (especially hard living with mountains on all sides that create crazy microclimates) and make a decision at least 24 hours in advance whether to drive out and put the girls’ blankets on. It’s not an emergency if the forecast is wrong and they end up wearing blankets in 50-degree weather until I can get there to remove them, or if they don’t have them on when an unexpected temperature drop happens because they’re in the barn at night, but it’s a crazy, crystal-ball-reading crapshoot nonetheless (especially since they’re in their 20s now and have a harder time keeping weight on).
Edited to fix typo.
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I sympathize.
Horses were boarded for 15yrs & I lived a minmum of 1hr from any barn.
Not present horses, but methodology was & remains the same.
The best I could manage was leave them unclipped & allow for extra time cooling out if we rode into a sweat.
I know it’s a pure luxury for me to micromanage as much as I want now they’re home.
And my standards have changed considerably since.
I won’t say “lowered”, but my epiphany was being at nearby neighbors’ for dinner when a huge rainstorm moved in.
I left in a hurry, got home, brought horses in & gave them bonus hay…
Only to watch both take a mouthful, then head right back out into the rain for that Oh So Tastier pasture grass. 
I’ve decided they can decide when In is better than Out & so far it suits all of us.
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I used to keep them at home and loved being able to manage them hour by hour, but when I moved down here to the Southeast, I decided—like Murtagh from Lethal Weapon—that “I’m too old for this $hit!” and booked them into a full-board situation. 
At this point in my life, I love lying in bed and knowing that someone else is feeding, scrubbing water buckets, cleaning stalls and moving them from stall to pasture. The blanket thing is really the only downside…
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