Yesterday Brian and I realized Tuesday was the three-year-anniversary of the day Steen stepped off the trailer and into our lives. It’s been a pretty amazing three years. Steen has definitely challenged me more than I ever expected, but he’s also convinced two completely non-horse people to make horses a significant part of their lives,… Read more »
Horse Thoughts
Indoor Lope
Brian and I headed out to the barn today with the intention of riding outside. But it was honestly kind of horrible out. Granted, it wasn’t raining. But it was chilly and windy. We walked to the pasture, Steen saw me and he literally came running for the gate. I brought him in to find… Read more »
Back Indoors
This has been an exceptionally cold and wet spring. Today we were planning on braving the chill and riding outside, but since the barn was completely empty, we wimped out and stayed in. It was plenty comfortable as the last couple rides were outside. And the new magnesium stuff in the sand is keeping things… Read more »
Lope, Lope, Lope
I hadn’t been out to the barn alone in a while so today I shuffled my schedule around to fit in a late morning ride. I found Steen a bit antsy. There is now a house going up next to the barn, and apparently the heavy machinery had him excited. Beyond that the weather is… Read more »
A Beautiful Day on the Strip
Of course, much of the beauty came before and after the barn. Robin and I had our usual relaxing morning before turning to some basement work and flower shopping to spruce up the front of the house. We then moved on to a wonderful French crepe shop downtown and then stopped at my favorite establishment,… Read more »
Return to the Strip
This morning the sun was shining when we woke up. I was pretty happy about this. We celebrated by getting a few thing done around the house and yard, then heading downtown for some crepes. After that, we went to the barn via the house of a couple who started as clients of my web… Read more »
A Short Ride and Some Fresh Grass
It was a week of bad weather, and the indoor arena was undergoing a treatment that will make it dust free but did render it unusable for about five days first. This meant there was mud and wet outside and no arena inside, so the boys got five days off. I went out on Friday… Read more »
A Little Break
After quite a few weeks of more riding, I took it easy this past week. The weather was cold and wet, so it made it easy for me to stay home, drink tea, and read books. Yesterday Bear got some work done on him by the chiropractor. I was at work so Robin was there… Read more »
Steen the Chilled and Steen the Chill
This weekend we had a visitor. Brian’s sister, Christina, came up from the Chicago area and one of the big objectives of her visit was to hang out with Steen and Bear (she’d never met either of them before and has spent very little time with horses in general). Unfortunately the weather didn’t cooperate and… Read more »
A Long Visitor Report
Friday was one of those awful spring days, wet, windy, and quite cold. So we skipped our usual Friday-at-the-barn routine. Plus we knew my sister Christina was coming to visit this weekend and we were going to spend plenty of time at the barn the next couple of days. Saturday the weather was not much… Read more »