Brian is still suffering from a sore shoulder and doesn’t feel up to riding again yet, but we’ve had the wug we purchased for Bear sitting around for a while now and we keep forgetting to take it to the barn with us. Today we decided we really needed to go try it on him… Read more »
Bear
Birthday Ride
Today I told my clients I had late morning “meetings” and headed to the barn for a birthday ride. I actually hadn’t gone out alone for a very long time, and I was feeling excited about the prospect of a mellow indoor ride on Steen. Everything was quiet in the pasture when I arrived. Steen’s… Read more »
Pearly Whites
Steen usually gets his teeth floated in the fall, and yesterday I got an email from our barn’s owner, saying our vet was coming out to do teeth today, and would we like to be included? When Bear got his vet check a couple months ago, the vet’s one comment was that he would need… Read more »
I Do This For Fun?
On Friday, Brian and I almost didn’t go to the barn. We were both tired, he’d had a long day at work, my neck was still stiff from my fall, and it was chilly. Somehow, however, we talked ourselves into going and so Friday afternoon found us tacking our two boys up in the barn… Read more »
Halloween Spook
This morning we headed to the barn in high hopes for a good ride. The sun was out. The day was fairly still. It seemed luck was on our side. That is, until we got to the barn. When we pulled up we saw the herd of cattle on the strip, but decided this wasn’t… Read more »
Perfect Fall Day
Today was a beautiful fall day – temps in the high 60’s but sunny and relatively still. We thought it would be a great day to head out to the barn, and we were right. I decided to go bareback today. I’m not actually sure why I’ve been using a saddle so much lately. When… Read more »
Another Trip to AZ
I recently returned from a vacation in Arizona, where I spent some time teaching my brother’s brother-in-law, Simon, to ride my sister’s horse, Jak. It was a nice break from work, and the sun felt really good, but we got back later than expected and so on Tuesday afternoon I had only been back in… Read more »
Indian Summer
I guess this is what they call Indian Summer. We’ve had sunny days in the 80’s and no rain. It’s October. On Friday Brian and I headed out to the barn in the afternoon. We kept the ride pretty simple but after a little warm-up ventured past the strip into the soybean field, where we… Read more »
The Jog
I am happy to report that I believe Steen has finally (2.5 years after he came into my life) mastered the art of the jog. It’s a funny thing, because while the jog isn’t necessarily something I strive to teach my horse, and I certainly would never go to great lengths to force a non-jog-inclined… Read more »
Another Great Ride
Today Brian and I headed for the barn in the afternoon. Lately Brian’s foot has been having issues, so he wanted to try some outdoor bareback work to avoid the stirrup. We set him up with his normal saddle pad underneath the bareback pad we bought a couple years ago and that set-up seemed to… Read more »