Calm, Forward, Straight

Between Christmas and New Years (my Dad and) I built and hung doors on my old boarder's run in shed, turning it into a second and much n...

It's been three (long, hard, hot) weeks since we lost Sweet Pea. The household is adjusting to her absence - some better than others. I...

Well... Val had a mini vacation since our trip last weekend, and I've taken a little break from the blog. It has become blazing hot, and...

No computer access since last week, so my apologies for the sparse posts. Also - thanks to our new followers. The weird blogger issues from ...

Best. ride. ever. Hands down. Happy snorting pony. Zero steering issues. Contact, softening, leg yields, serpentines... etc. Fun! It wasn...

No new rides to report on, but we've still spent plenty of quality time together. There's been some amount of de-hairing going on da...

Happy day - the weather man was oh-so-wrong. After digging up numerous pampas grasses, transplanting numerous pampas grasses, spreading mult...

After our fab ride on the final day of 2010, I was so looking forward to starting 2011 in the same way. Something about the symmetry appeale...

Val and I had another productive session. Chilly and windy, but nice enough down at the barn. Our warm-up went very smoothly, although I won...

Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the horse through his glass of his knowledge a...

After our spook fest on Monday, I decided I'd better ride again right away. We had a very calm and productive session. Windy just like t...

Looks like we're on for our trip to my trainer's this weekend - yea! When I went down to the barn this evening the mystery swelling ...