Today was warm and Robin was swamped with work, so I went out to the barn on my own. Bear was doing his best to bury his head in the bale and get all the good stuff. He must have been at it for a while, because he pooped four times today. Lately he has… Read more »
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A Little Loping
Very little loping, actually. I said a few rides ago that I wanted to get Bear moving out a little more. It is easy to come up with excuses for not doing it. Mine are that he got sore last time, and then I got a new saddle and didn’t want to push things too… Read more »
Still Good
The first ride in the saddle was not some kind of one-time experience. If anything, Bear was moving and feeling even better today. And he was equally as stiff coming out of the pasture today as he was yesterday.. Robin and I got to the barn early so we could beat any other potential weekend… Read more »
Chilly Ride
It seems to have been our year for buying saddles. Although Brian has been largely happy with the bear trap, it seems lately to be causing some problems for Bear. Being that Bear is now 16 1/2 years old and we want to keep him healthy and fit as long as possible, we decided to… Read more »
Another Saddle
As I mentioned a little bit ago, I’ve been worrying about the fit of Bear’s saddle for quite some time now. So I decided to just get a new one and see how it goes. I found a great deal on a used McCall wade. It felt like a good move to make, because if… Read more »
Winter Attitude Adjustment
We had a dusting of snow last night, and temps were in the low 30’s when we trudged out to the pasture and saw Steen had made excellent progress in making his new blanket just as dirty as his old one. We went indoors to tack up. I wore a pair of boots I bought… Read more »
Working with Rojo
Over Thanksgiving Robin and I got out to Southern Arizona for a week to visit her family. As always, it was a really good time. And we definitely spent a lot of time with the horses. For the past few visits I’ve been working on getting a little closer to Rojo, my mother-in-law’s red Missouri… Read more »
The First Cold Ride of the Year
While the sun was out and if felt good when I was walking home, by three o’clock the sun was low on the horizon and the west winds were cooling us down very quickly. Basically, it was the kind of weather Bear thrives in. And as a result, we had a pretty darn good ride. … Read more »
Birthday Hackamore
Today I turned 30, and just about the first thing I did was open a box from my husband containing this: For the curious, it’s a 16 plait rawhide bosal with 22′ mane hair mecate on a simple leather bosal hanger. This is what followers of the vaquero horesmanship tradition move their horses into after… Read more »
Soft Feel, At the Walk!
This one has been eluding us for some weeks. Actually, a couple months. Shortly after the clinic when I started getting the soft feel consistently while we were standing, I started asking for it at the walk. And never getting it. I kept it up for some time, but I just don’t think I was… Read more »