Here goes.
My name's Jen. I work fulltime for a collections agency, in the payment department. Mark, my fiance, owns a property management and home renovation firm, and I enjoy helping him out with some aspects of that when I am not at work and not housecleaning/animal-house cleaning. I live with Mark on a farm in western NY that we are renting, roughly 300 acres of hayfields, woods, creeks and pastureland. We are marrying this August, 25th and plan to buy a smaller farm in the area. My animals are my hobbies. We have two horses (mares); one is pending APHA (Paint) registry and is a solid sorrel. The other is a tovero who we will be registering as Pinto shortly. (darned registration fees are hard to come up with when planning a wedding!) I was thinking of adding them to our gift registry, hehe.) I am thinking of showing them in the far future, but no plans as yet. Here are some pics:
Cuesta (and me.) She is a direct granddaughter of one of my favorite QH atuds, Doc Bar. Her registered name will be Docs Malbec. coming 8 year old, great at trail riding, did some jumping.

Running with her ;06 filly, Jenny (sold her.)

And Emma, the Tovero 7 yr. old. Green broke last year b/c her previous owners did nothing with her.

For BPs, I have 1.0 Spider and Pastel.. 1.4 normal girls, 1.0 het orange ghost. Three of my girls should have eggs this year; my first year breeding. Ginger had a clutch last year that unfortunately went bad and died. We also have a boa constrictor imperator (male) to round out the snake collection. Our other pets are: one black cat; Inky. 2.3 clawed frogs. 0.1 albino horned frog. And fish: 125g tank with Oscars, other cichlids, and plecos and catfish. 55g tropical community tank, and a 55g goldfish tank.
I plan on adding a White's tree frog to the familiy come springtime.
My other hobbies are drawing/painting, hiking, responsible ATVing, and guns. I mainly do .22 practice shooting, but I am applying for my pistol permit this spring. Nature in general is my passion. I would literally want to die if I did not have access to the natural, unspoiled wilderness on a daily basis. It is just in my blood to be out here, and like a diver I can go into urban areas like the diver goes underwater, and maybe even enjoy myself and see cool sights, but for my breath of fresh air I need to be back out in the country.
I grew up in the city of Buffalo, but spent much of my childhood roaming around with friends in a wooded railroad area nearby. It was just a spot that drew the "different" kids who were not preppy clones of each other (instead, they were black-nail-polish and hair-dyeing clones of each other, hehe.) I am still fascinated by creepy areas with few people such as abandoned buildings. But at 26, I have mellowed out a lot and turned away from the drug and partying culture that I used to frequent. I have few true friends and I like it this way; my best friend is a person who I have gone through a lot with since high school and still best friends with. And I could not be happier with my life any other way than what it is now; and it is still evolving!