We’ve been out of town for a few days, which means none of our horses have been ridden. Sometimes when we have our pick of who to ride and we’re not in any sort of pattern, it can be hard to decide. Today I settled on Steen and Brian decided to ride Bear. Seen’s leg… Read more »
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New Trails
On Friday we got an invitation to go ride at some nice trails just north of us. We had never trailered our horses anywhere, so we were quite excited to see how they would do. We arrived at the barn early to make sure everything was ready. We ended up being so early that we… Read more »
What A Year
Sometimes it seems the years go so fast. But at other times you look back on what’s changed in 365 days and it blows your mind. Today is my birthday. (I’m thirtysomething.) Last year on this day Brain gave me a hackamore. It was the first hackamore either of us had ever owned. It took… Read more »
Getting Better With Age
I’ve been feeling a bit bad lately that my horse’s injury means I’m putting the lion’s share of time on Laredo, who Brian and I are supposedly sharing. So today we did a swap and I rode Bear. Bear is in great shape lately. The extra hours we’ve been putting on him to compensate for… Read more »
Ridin’ High
We were out of town Thursday thru Monday. We went to the Chicago area to audit a Martin Black clinic, which was great. The setting was small and intimate, only eight riders and a handful of auditors. Martin gave all the riders a lot of one on one attention, and we learned a whole lot… Read more »
Bear Time
Steen Update: The sunburn is much better. The leg is making progress. Slow progress, but progress nonetheless. Today, I rode Bear. I don’t ride Bear very often. When we first got him, I only rode him when Brian was having some kind of trouble with him. Since that has stopped happening, I’ve more less stopped… Read more »
Continuing the Softness
One of the great things about having Laredo is that he has changed the way Robin and I ride, and think about, our main horses. Though I would try very hard to approach every ride from a fresh perspective, I couldn’t always accomplish that, and I would fall back on old excuses for my old… Read more »
Steen the Accomplished
I was a little engrossed in my work today when Brian got home, and when I get engrossed it can be hard for me to switch gears. It was a beautiful day, and I worked for twelve hours straight yesterday. I knew I could benefit from a break. Still, it took a little bit of… Read more »
Playing Cow
We got to the barn fairly early to meet a friend for a trail ride. It was really cool out, and we were looking forward to a long day of riding. Unfortunately our friend never made it out. We tacked up and started riding on the strip thinking they would show, but no. So we… Read more »
Feelin’ It
This was the day: Sunny and in the low 70s. Beautiful. It started with me attempting to familiarization myself and Steen with a rope. He was fine with it coiled. I could bang it all around his saddle and body. When I started swinging it around he wasn’t as cool with it, though I couldn’t tell if… Read more »