I think we have decided on a name for the new girl. At the moment we’re leaning towards calling her Zoey. We tried it out today and it seemed pretty natural. So for the moment, Zoey it is. We got the barn and attended to our sick ponies first. We gave Bear his meds and… Read more »
Horse Thoughts
Effort
Robin had a great ride on Laredo Sunday. After her energetic and surprisingly good ride on Zoey, she found Laredo decidedly lacking in the try department. She had already decided to try him in the snaffle again, and she was happy she did. It allowed her to correct and encourage him in a way that… Read more »
Doing Better
Brian drove out to the barn first thing this morning. He took Bear’s temperature and was happy to discover it was back down to normal. He also checked on new girl’s butt, and although he didn’t get super close to her, he could tell it had stayed closed in the night. Two very good things.… Read more »
Long Weekend
Robin has some better summaries here and here. I don’t really feel up to writing about all of it. We are pretty excited to have our new horse, but that first day was really packed. I was excited Robin had a great ride on her. Unfortunately, Bear was not doing so great for our ride. … Read more »
A Good Start to a Long, Long Day
We had quite the barn Sunday. It panned out in three segments: Ride One, Ride Two, and Unplanned Vet Call. And I’m afraid this post is going to end up rather long. Ride One We were excited to get out to the barn today and see how our new girl is taking to her new environment.… Read more »
Windy Arrival
We had crazy winds today. Usually we are pretty resilient when it comes to wind, so we didn’t think a whole lot of it, heading out. Our new girl was slated to arrive at 3:00, so we got to the barn early to ride a couple of our guys beforehand. I rode Steen, Brian rode… Read more »
Is Four Too Many?
We just hit our one year anniversary with Laredo and being a three horse family, and now we are considering a fourth. Truth be told, we’ve been talking about it for some time. There are days at the barn where we just want to put our guys back and grab another one. This doesn’t work… Read more »
It’s a Girl!
I haven’t owned a mare since I had my very first horse, and in the 15 years since I sold her I’ve actually never had the opportunity to really get to know another mare at all (with the exception of the small amount of work we did with Cal when we leased her for Brian… Read more »
One Year Later
We’ve now had Laredo for exactly one year. At times it has been rough, but it has also been extremely educational. In that time we’ve gotten over the ear issue, had a few bucks and runaways, taught him how to lope some circles, and become close enough that he will sometimes run to us in… Read more »
The Comfort Zone Wars
We rode on the strip today. My plan was to continue to work on Steen’s dislike of being out of his strip comfort zone bubble. My plan for the day was to do all of our easy work and all of our resting down the strip well past where he prefers to be, and all… Read more »