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Happy Valentine’s Day from My Barn to Yours

Photography Wishing you a day filled with love. For animals. For people. For yourself. Thank you for reading, Katherine Walcott

Poop, Glorious Poop

Horsekeeping Lucky enough to have a horse. 💩 One night last week, Rodney had a short bout of feeling punk. It presented as a low fever and a leisurely approach to dinner. Since lack of interest in food was involved, we immediately hit the colic panic button. Confirmation call to the vet. Shot ofContinue reading “Poop, Glorious Poop”

Gotta Hand It To Myself, That Was Stupid

For The Record Because I’m going to want to remember when this happened. On the black diamond ski run … There was this runaway baby carriage … Looks down. Mumbles. I tripped over a curb. The curb was not flush with the ground on the high side. I failed to clear the slightContinue reading “Gotta Hand It To Myself, That Was Stupid”

Thoroughbred Databases and Playing The Numbers, or not

Horsekeeping Lucky enough to have a horse. I added Milton and Previous Horse to the Thoroughbred Sport Tracker of the Retired Racehorse Project. I figured, Why not? It’s free, the data might help someone somewhere, and I get a blog post out of it. Turns out I got two posts [Get Off MyContinue reading “Thoroughbred Databases and Playing The Numbers, or not”

Get Off My Lawn, And Take Your Warmblood With You

Training Journal If you’re riding a horse, you’ve already won. I added Milton and Previous Horse to the Thoroughbred Sport Tracker of the Retired Racehorse Project. The weirdest part of the whole thing for me is the RRP subtitle, “Increasing Demand for Thoroughbreds” Increasing demand? When did this happen? There used to beContinue reading “Get Off My Lawn, And Take Your Warmblood With You”

Green Horses on the Wall, Lisbon, Portugal, Guest Photo

Celebrating Art by Nuno Saraiva Artist’s website Making of the mural, Cargo Collective (scroll down) A casual street scene in Lisbon from my well-traveled friend Amy [Archives]. She said “Random sighting while walking to a particularly special pasteleria.” That would be a cake shop for us stay-at-homes. Previous Portugal, also from Amy [TileContinue reading “Green Horses on the Wall, Lisbon, Portugal, Guest Photo”

The Reason I Had To Write This Book! Guest Post

Writing & Writing About Writing Nell Parsons is the student of a friend of mine. They sensibly figured that I would be a natural choice to review a horse book. Unfortunately, I wrote book reviews professionally for many years and currently have no enthusiasm for the form. Instead, I offered her a space toContinue reading “The Reason I Had To Write This Book! Guest Post”