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| This is Clancy, who is part Border Collie and part something else. Clancy had two different homes before she came to live with us. She was continuously returned to the Humane Society for being too demanding. Clancy has lived a long and happy life at the Little H-bar. About a year ago, she lost her left front leg to bone cancer. She is still hopping around and smiling, but can't chase gophers any more. Or the cats! | 
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| This is Binky, who is the queen of the Little H-Bar Ranch. Binky was supposed to be a barn cat, but she had other ideas. Binky bosses everyone around, including Clancy and the horses. Here, she's just enjoying the afternoon lounging around on our back deck in the shade. She was rescued by a friend of Mark Robinson's. Binky is a real party animal and loves to follow everyone around. Once, she even went horse-camping with us, as a stowaway in our trailer! | 
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| This is Hannah, my very first horse. She's 28 years old, and has seen quite a few trails in her time. Right now she's comfortably enjoying the later years of her life in retirement, and occasionally giving rides to visiting children. Hannah is very good with children and seems to enjoy giving rides. Hannah is a registered Quarter Horse. | 
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| We bought Beau for Garrett to ride when we didn't know if Ziggy would recover from his hip injury. Beau is now twelve years old, and is Garrett's main riding horse. He is a registered Appendix, which means that he is half thoroughbred and half quarter horse. I guess that makes him only one-eighth of a horse! | 
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| Mr. Ed is a registered paint, who is Hannah's son. I found him on the internet by sending e-mail to the American Paint Horse Association Registry His father is a champion working cow horse named Tommy's Doc Bar. Mr. Ed is fourteen years old and is my riding horse. He is not really paint-colored, as he only has a small patch of white near his right front leg. This makes him a "Breeding Stock Paint". But he is not doing any breeding either, as he is a gelding! He loves cows, however, and knows much more about them than I do! | 
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| Gizzy and Dragon are two of the original barn cats who came with the ranch. They are both rather shy and hide in the rafters on top of the tack room, to avoid Clancy. Dragon has a bad eye, and is rarely seen in the daytime. Gizzy meows all the time and is a little more friendly. |  
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| This is our most beautiful cat, Tracy. Tracy was rescued by our friend Lauren Novatne, who was teaching in the city of Tracy at the time (although she and the cat were both living in Stockton.) He is a neutered 4 year old, purebred Siamese cat, with blue eyes. He is very affectionate and has adjusted well to ranch life. He is often seen hunting in the fields next door by the vineyard. | 
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| This is Smoky, who now gets fed in our garage. He was abandoned by the former neighbors, when they moved away. After two years as a feral cat, he showed up to eat one day by the fence, where I was putting food for Dragon, while walking Clancy. He bonded to Clancy, and follows her around all day long. He even sleeps next to her on the front porch at night. | 
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| Amby is our newest barn cat. She showed up at the beginning of
NASA Educator Ambassador training week in July 2002 and was very ill. After
many treatments for her eye, a systemic infection and the removal of a
large growth on her chest and two abscessed teeth, she is happy and eating
regularly. Amby just loves to sit on my lap and snuggle. She and Binky are
both very fat tortoise shells!
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| Patches is the most recent cat to adopt the Little H-bar. She was abandoned by the former neighbors along with Smoky, but it took her an extra year to get up the nerve to come over to eat. She gets fed in the garage with Smoky and spends most of the day hanging out by Garrett's tool bench. | 
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This is my husband Garrett's first horse, Ziggy. Ziggy died at the age of 13, on September 18, 2003. Please visit his memorial site.
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