I’m a couple weeks late with this post. On Saturday the 10th, Brian and I had the barn mostly to ourselves. I brought Piper in and we turned her and Laredo out together. They make a funny pair. Their base coat color is pretty similar. Although he’s a red dun, his mane is light, though… Read more »
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The Great Saddle Saga of 2013 (aka: two McCalls for sale)
It’s been an interesting year in the tack department. I haven’t blogged about all the details because it’s been a lot of trial and error and things have felt a tad ridiculous at times. But now that we’ve got things pretty much figured out, I will share all in case what we learned proves useful… Read more »
New Year!
Got my first ride of the year in today. It was super cold and snowy, but we had a pretty good time. I rode Zoey, and she was happy to come in and was very relaxed. But under saddle, she was a little more tense. She had two spooks. I have no idea what caused… Read more »
2013 Recap
Today is the last day of 2013, and I will not be spending any of it on horseback. So that means we get to do the official tally. Total saddle time in 2013 200 hours, 10 minutes Talk about barely squeaking over the finish line. This is the first year I came so close to… Read more »
Lessons and Visitors
I have apparently not quite settled back into consistent blogging mode, so another catch-up post it is. The end of September was busy. I had some sort of strange illness that mostly amounted to me feeling kind of bad but not horrible unless I tried to do something physically taxing, at which point I would… Read more »
A Long One
Brian wanted to check in with Bear today, since he seemed a little sore during our last ride. So we decided I would ride Steen and Brian would ride Bear first and Laredo second, so we brought them all in from the pasture to get them ready to go. I groomed one side of Laredo… Read more »
Just Me
Robin has been ill for almost a whole week. We keep waking up thinking she’ll be feeling better, but nope. Not so. Today she really didn’t feel up to going to the barn, but she was happy to let me head out. We really ride together a lot. We used to get more solo rides… Read more »
A Few Winter Rides
So far February hasn’t been quite the springboard back into an active barn habit that I was hoping for. Work is just nuts so far this year. We’ve been taking some steps to help get in front of the workload, but a lot of days I would have liked to have gone to the barn… Read more »
Busy Weekend
We had a lot to get done this weekend, largely of the “preparing for the holidays” variety. Saturday was dreary and rainy. It was pretty much wet all day, and instead of going to the barn we got copious amounts of very “responsible adult” types things done, like cleaning the house, and finishing our Christmas… Read more »
Love at First Ride
My new saddle arrived late on Wednesday. We unpacked it and I have to say it looks even better in person than it did in the photos. Today I headed out to the barn alone to meet the farrier. Brian had to work but planned to come out and meet me later. I took my… Read more »