Work: AM heat therapy, easy walk/PM groom, ran out of daylight for exercises. Evaluation*: During the walk, he stayed relaxed despite being annoyed at the dog. Almost like a horse that one might someday want to ride. Almost. Someday. By the end of the grooming, he began to remember that he enjoys being fussed over.Continue reading “Back in the [figurative] Saddle”
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Cowboy Inspiration
Work: day off. Again. I spent the day at my state’s Horse Fair, a winter festival of lectures, demonstrations, and association booths. I learned: 1) There is a whole parallel western world of which I know nothing. 2) Western riding is looking more and more like dressage: balanced seat, legs underneath the body, legs inContinue reading “Cowboy Inspiration”
Truck Shopping
Work: unclear. Rain. Gloomy weather to match my gloomy mood. I’m feeling old, unproductive, purposeless, and all those other doom clouds that travel in packs. One obvious reason is that this is the longest I’ve gone without riding since I was 14. One obvious answer is to be grateful for all that I have, bloomContinue reading “Truck Shopping”
Caution Feral Horse
Work: none. Heat therapy already. Will groom later. Rodney has had 7 out of last 8 days off, with little more than meals & a pat on the nose. My first horse developed complicated stable management diseases if I gave him even one day off. I hired a barn rat to love on him forContinue reading “Caution Feral Horse”
Guest Blogger: Keeping Secrets
Work: day off. Book Review of Keeping Secrets by Maggie Dana [rerelease Kindle 2011] by Ellen Broadhurst, The Blithe Traveler I know Maggie Dana through my mother. So I asked Ellen Broadhurst to do the honors as she has no dog in the hunt. Plus, she has experience with horses and books as the authorContinue reading “Guest Blogger: Keeping Secrets”
The Barefoot Boy
Work: house rules stipulate that farrier = day off. What can I say, Previous Horse trained me well. We deweaponized Rodney’s hind feet early on. At the end of last year, I had the blacksmith remove his front shoes as well. He’ll probably need them back in the summer for stomping flies. Meanwhile this willContinue reading “The Barefoot Boy”
The Things We Do For Love
Work: None. Heat therapy. In high school, my friends would call on a Friday evening, “Hey, we’re going to a party. Want to come?” To which I would say, “No. I have to get up for a horse show tomorrow morning.” In college, I looked into the Peace Corps. I got as far as aContinue reading “The Things We Do For Love”
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