We haven’t had a day where we’ve worked with all three horses for a while, but today it was just beautiful out, so we figured it was a good day to spend loads of time at the barn. Also in our chatting recently we’ve realized it has been AGES since I rode Bear. I’ve certainly… Read more »
hackamore
A Break in the Heat?
As we are on “vacation,” we have been lazy about getting up and out to the barn. Thankfully our time off has coincided with a nice break in weather. Today was absolutely perfect; blue skies with puffy white clouds, temps in the 70s, and a light north wind. And we took no pictures. We rode… Read more »
Ride Medley
We’ve had a busy start to August and I’ve gotten behind on the blogging. So I’m going to do a quick catch-up post. August 2 – Thursday I rode Laredo. We didn’t have a great ride. It was one of those days where nothing was bad, exactly, but nothing was great either. We did all… Read more »
The last ride of July
We rode in the morning again today. The horses were all out on the hilltop in the pasture when we arrived, and everyone was a bit revved because two horses were moved from the stall herd to the pasture herd. Bear led a charge down the hill to see us, and it was neat to… Read more »
A Smaller Group Ride
We woke up this morning to rain. Quite a bit of it. This was great as we are in a drought like much of the nation, but it was a little less than great because we had our group ride plans for 9. Robin emailed our friends and said we’d probably be going out later,… Read more »
Lots of Running
Today I hoped to build on some of the work Bear and I did at the lope on our last ride. We again rode on the strip and in the hackamore. We warmed up with lots of meandering without hands and then some nice trotting. The whole time I couldn’t help but think how responsive… Read more »
A Friday Ride
This week I’m finally starting to feel caught up with work. We’ve been making a few adjustments to the way we are running my business, including that Brian is now going to handle all billing and invoicing, plus some of the correspondence with potential new clients. This only amounts to a few hours of work… Read more »
Another Wednesday Morning Ride
It is supposed to get over a hundred again today, so I am really happy we got out to the barn early. Earlier than we’ve ever gone, actually. And it felt really nice. It was getting sticky-hot when we left, but during the ride it was cool and breezy. I rode Bear out on the… Read more »
The Third Ride
Brian has spend several more hours in the saddle than me this year, and he’s on better track for our riding goal too, so I need to catch up a little. Plus, I rode Steen on Saturday and Sunday, and I wanted to ride him again today. It seems to me working a horse three days… Read more »
No Hands
I have been focusing for months on trying to use my hands less and my legs more. However when I try to steer just with my legs, we pretty much instantly run into problems. It is so strange to me that Steen can walk a perfect figure-eight with almost no input from the reins, but if… Read more »