The weather has been beautiful lately, and we’ve had several good hard rains. The pastures have recovered from the drought to an extent that surprises me, and it is has been so nice to spend the days out at the barn and not get home feeling scorched. Today we spent the morning over at Catalpa… Read more »
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Working on My Roping Skills
For my birthday last December Robin got me a whole bunch of awesome horse related items. I’ve read many of the books and gotten some excellent use out of the spurs, but one item I have not played around with yet was a nice rope. I often thought about bringing it out to the barn,… Read more »
Musical Horses
Today we changed everything up. I rode Steen, and Robin rode Bear. She hadn’t really ridden him in forever, so she was curious to feel how he is doing in the hackamore. And after that we moved right into a second ride with Robin going back to Steen and me jumping on Laredo. Again we… Read more »
Rotating Mounts
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 »
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 »
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 »
Happy on the Trail
Today our morning ride plans were foiled by storms, so Brian and I headed out later and didn’t connect with the horses and riders we’ve been going out with the last couple of Sundays. We decided to venture out on our own. Brian chose to ride in the hackamore, which is the first time either… 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 »
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 »
Tweaking the Trail Ride
On Sunday we got out on the trails as a foursome again. We only had one of the Icelandics with us, and Gay and Doc came along instead. We’ve ridden with them numerous times and it is always fun. On Sunday we were also blessed with wonderful weather. It started off cool and breezy and… Read more »