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a fly mask with the right side covered
to block the sun-shine for her.
This lovely girl
came to Misfit Acres in May of
2005 at the age of
16. During her life at Misfit Acres, she
has been mixed with a number of
other rescue horses and shows
us that she is defi-nitely not the alpha
mare. We think that is part of her
charm. She is a very easy keeper
and a delight to be around.
April is a true lady! We don’t know who
trained her but she is a very willing
horse and almost impossible to star-
tle. April is highly trained and re-
sponds to the
slightest pressures. She is very friendly
and adores people. She shares a pas-
ture with Lucky, who is incredibly
spoiled and rules the roost, but April
doesn’t care.
She had sustained an injury when she
was very young leaving her right
eye blind and slightly disfiguring
the bone structure surrounding the
eye. A little later, April developed
moon-blindness in this eye. April is on
daily aspirin powder therapy for this
condition. When she does have a
bout with her moon-blindness, we have
We hope you enjoy our
Summer 2008 issue of
Milestones. Thanks to
all of you, our support-
ers, each issue we
print is a Milestone! In
these tough economic
times, you have re-
mained helpful to the
Sanctuary Horses of
Misfit Acres. Thank
you!!
April is a true lady.
F E A T U R E D H O R S E —
M Y S W E E T A P R I L
S P E C I A L
P O I N T S O F
I N T E R E S T :
Update—
Tumbleweed
Spring Shots?
Maybe not!
Win this Saddle
Recycling Info
I N S I D E T H I S
I S S U E :
Update—Tumbleweed 2
Donor Spotlight 2
Sponsors 2
Resident’s Corner 3
Huge Happenings 3
Summer Events 3
Recycling 4
W e l c o m e
M I S F I T A C R E S
Misfit Acres Milestones
Summer 2008 Volume 2 issue 2
You will recall from
our last newsletter
the story of Tumble-
weed the injured owl?
Last communication
with the Raptor Cen-
ter reports that he
had lost many, many
feathers from his or-
deal. Tumbleweed is
in the “Flying Area” at
the Raptor Center
learning how to fly
again. His wing has
healed. The volun-
teers at the Center
predict it will be an-
other six to eight
weeks before he can
be released back into
the wild. They will
contact us when he is
ready to be free
again.
By special arrangement,
Misfit Acres now has
several Capstone Press
horse books for sale as
fundraisers. We thank
this local company for
this opportunity to carry
their fine line of books.
Please see
www.capstonepress.com
to view their products.
Lastly, Thank you Lee
and Chaw Chaw for
their donation of a
whole new batch of
Jade Jewelry. These
beautiful pieces are a
directly from Thailand
and Myanmar. They
are all hand made and
hand tied. They are
tremendously popular
- if you love Jade, see
them while they last!
Our most sincere
Thank You goes out to
the Steele County
Mounted Posse for
their kind donation to
the Sanctuary Horses
of Misfit Acres!! We
invite you to visit the
Posse’s website at
www.scmp.us and
learn about the won-
derful work these vol-
unteers do for their
community.
U P D A T E — T U M B L E W E E D
S p o n s o r s
P a g e 2
D o n o r s p o t l i g h t
“If you love
Jade, see them
while they
last!”
M i s f i t A c r e s M i l e s t o n e s
If you’d like to help sponsor our newsletter we ask for a
$15 donation. Please do send a business card with
the donation.
She and Peanut have devel-
oped quite a bond the last few
months but Abbey still stays
very close to them.
April and Lucky are really lov-
ing the warmer days. So far,
they have covered every inch
of the pasture grazing around.
BJ & Montana are just plain
old happy! Each day is an-
other day of relaxation and
just being a horse. Rarely
separated, they sure can kick
up their heels at hay time.
Magic continues to antagonize
Augie at the water tank every
chance he gets. Augie has
learned to watch for him before
he lowers his head into the wa-
ter tank. Magic
is pretty quick
to bite Augie in
the hiney!
And little Acura
had to have a
tooth removed.
She was pretty
sleepy and sore
for a couple
days but now
she is back to
being a happy little dog with a
tail that wags like crazy!
day October 19 in Good
Thunder, MN. Raffle Tick-
ets are $5 each and win-
ner need not be present
to win. We will make ar-
rangements to ship the
saddle to the winner. If
you are not in our area,
please don’t hesitate to
support our venture!
Minnesota gambling laws
do not allow us to sell raf-
fle tickets through ecom-
merce on our website or
to sell raffle tickets to
We don’t know where to
begin thanking Donn of
Donn’s Leatherworks of
Chatfield. He is donating
this hand-made saddle for
fundraising purposes! This
treasure has a retail value
of $3500.
Therefore - Our raffle is
underway! First prize will
be Donn’s saddle, second
prize is $100, and third
prize is $50. The final
drawing will be held at our
annual fundraiser on Sun-
anyone under age 18.
Let’s make this raffle a
total success for the
Sanctuary Horses of
Misfit Acres. We rarely
put out pleas for sup-
port but this opportu-
nity is especially im-
portant with the ex-
pected high costs of
hay this year. See Donn’s Work at
www.donnsleather.com
R e s i d e n t ’ s c o r n e r
H u g e h a p p e n i n g
P a g e 3 V o l u m e 2 i s s u e 2
“Magic
continues to
antagonize Augie
at the water
tank...”
Win this Saddle!
As of the writing of this news-
letter, we attempted immuniza-
tions for the horses. Yes, at-
tempted is the proper word!
Magic showed us he was hav-
ing no part of this. Abbey de-
cided the same. We were able
to successfully vaccinate the
remaining seven horses but will
need to obtain more help with
these two rebels.
Hoof care continues regularly.
Magic has not figured out that
this is a requirement either.
His fronts go pretty well but
the back hooves are not fun.
Dixie is still the little “Queen”.
S u m m e r e v e n t s
On July 11, 12, & 13,
Bruce will be attending the
John Lyons event in Roch-
ester, MN at the Olmstead
County Fair Grounds rep-
resenting Misfit Acres. He
will have our complete set-
up including fundraising
merchandise and scrap-
book. This event runs
from 9 am to 5 pm daily.
Truman Days will be held
July 26 at the park in Tru-
man! We have attended this
event for the last three
years. We have had to re-
place our little Astro van and
hope to have the new vehi-
cle ready to go for the Tru-
man parade as well as set-
ting up our display in the
park.
Old Town Summerfest on Au-
gust 30 in down town Mankato,
MN will bring another fun day.
This celebration includes music,
vendors, food, and special
events. Please look for our dis-
play at Summerfest. Please
visit
www.oldtownsummerfest.com
for additional information.
addition, we have added Na-
bisco cookie and cracker
wrappers from the individual
serving packages.
Please contact us for prepaid
shipping supplies for these
fundraising programs. We
thank everyone for your par-
ticipation and help!!
The Bottle Brigade is sus-
pended. Please take your
bottles to your local recy-
cling center for now. We are
stockpiled with bottles in an-
ticipation of the program
starting up again but must
politely decline any more at
this time.
The laser cartridge, inkjet
cartridge, and cell phone re-
cycling programs continue.
Please spread the word and
help collect these valuable
items.
And, don’t forget our wrap-
per recycling. We are col-
lecting Granola and Energy
bar wrappers for funds. In
Until our Fall 2008
issue………
Bruce & Jody
Misfit Acres Inc.
12480 550TH AVE W
AMBOY MN 56010
Phone: 507-278-4876
E-mail: jody@misfitacres.com
M I S F I T A C R E S
R e c y c l i n g f o r h o r s e s
My Forever Home
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in the whole world, but it will make a world of
difference to that one horse ~ Author Unknown
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