Aleka is home, and doing great. I have lots of pictures of her but none that really show her at her best. I have trouble getting good pictures of her because she keeps following me and sticking her nose in the camera! Here are a few snapshots from her first week here. The pictures in the round pen with my husband, or husband and daughter, are from Tues. 6/12 in the afternoon. The thing to remember is that we only got Aleka home around midnight on Mon. 6/11. She has the best disposition; friendly, curious, and very willing. I can not believe how quickly she has adapted and become very people oriented. She is not just easy to catch, she rushes to the gate as soon as she sees one of us coming. She is amazing! Thank you so much for all you and Cheryl do . Not only are the horses better off because of your work but the people who have been fortunate enough to adopt a PMU horse have benefited greatly too. I know I have. Lisa Hi Jennifer, I wanted to send you an update on Aleka, she has continued to do amazingly well. She has taken pretty much everything in stride. She stands in cross ties for grooming, ignores fly spray and is friendly and curious with the dogs. We even take her for long trail walks (since she is too young for trail rides).She walks under trees, over logs and past all the debris that always seems to get dumped in the woods out here, without hesitation. She even stood at the side of a busy road that the trail crosses and calmly watched the cars and trucks zoom by. The only things that have fazed her at all have been baths and picking up her feet. Even those she didn't panic over, she just didn't like them and had no qualms about "telling" us so. We worked with her every day on her feet and last month she had her first farrier visit. It couldn't have gone better. I have seen mature experienced horses who didn't handle it as well as she did... As you can see from the pictures, Aleka's color has changed a great deal since she arrived. When she first got here, she wasn't fuzzy but she still had some winter coat left. She seemed to shed only her black hairs for a few weeks. She is quite clearly a blue roan now, but the verdict is still out on the grey. I did some research on equine color genetics and apparently it is possible to carry both the roan gene (which I know now she has) and a grey gene. If Aleka carries the grey gene as well, she will still grey out eventually. Only time will tell, So for now, I enjoy my rare blue girl and if she turns grey well, so be it. As my husband points out, she could be purple with pink spots and we would still think she is beautiful!