I will admit there are times when horse ownership is not all that great. The arrival of a bill from the vet is rarely a happy moment, but there are more emotional occasions as well, like when your horse embarrasses you in front of a bunch of barn people by acting like a total spaz.… Read more »
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Valentine’s Day at the Barn
This afternoon Brian and I headed for the barn again. We had a plan to do things a little differently than we did them yesterday. We arrived and went to get Sham out of the pasture. Sham recognized Brian immediately and walked from the round bale to where Brian waited. We thought that was a… Read more »
Let’s Not Forget the Star of This Blog
Today I went to the barn to pay some attention to MY horse. We’ve been so wrapped up with shopping and test-riding for Brian, Steen has been a tad overlooked the last week or two. Steen is actually developing a belly. Woohoo! First I went out and checked on the cut on Sham’s knee. There… Read more »
Still Frozen
Well, I’ve been a lazy blogger. Let’s see. Quick recap. It’s been cold. I haven’t been riding much. But, I have had a couple rides as well as a couple non-riding barn visits. I had another nice indoor bareback experience last week, and a couple of days ago I had a not-so-nice indoor, not bareback… Read more »
Still Cruisin’
Today Steen and I had our first real indoor ride at the new barn. And I must say, things went pretty well. When I first brought him inside he was nervous, as he’s been lately, but a little better than the last couple of times. He was also very clean and very fluffy, so grooming… Read more »
Firsts
When we woke up this morning, it was 30 degrees out, which is about what we’ve come to expect here this spring. So, I let things warm up as much as possible and was pleased to note that the sun was at least shining when I arrived at the barn. I went to get Steen… Read more »
Grief
A couple of days ago a horse at my barn died of colic. This horse happened to be Steen’s best buddy in the stall-horse herd. Yesterday I went out for a ride, and Steen’s behavior made me wonder (as I often do) at how closely horse emotion can be related to human emotion. It is… Read more »
Dumped
Well, it happens to all of us from time to time. Yesterday, due to a string of fairly unintelligent choices on my part, I fell off my horse. It was my first fall indoors, and I must say plopping off into the deep sand of an indoor arena is not bad at all. Also, as… Read more »
Weathering the Winter
My barn average is definitely down the last few weeks. For one thing, I’ve been working a lot, and for another I’ve discovered that days where the high is less than 5 degrees, the trip just isn’t worth it. Even going bareback doesn’t help on such days. It is just too cold to be bearable,… Read more »
A Winter Ride: In Numbers
degrees above zero when I left the house this morning: 11 articles of clothing worn: 17 miles from my house to the barn: 15 other people at the barn: 0 horses loose in the aisle when I arrived: 1 seconds it took for the unheated toilet to steal all my saved body warmth: .025 utensils… Read more »