Last week, I had some really great rides on Laredo, so I was excited to get back on him today. I also still had the rope attached to my saddle, so I figured I would start by seeing how Laredo handled it. Like Bear, he seemed to recognize the rope, but he wasn’t as bothered… 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 »
Triple Digits
Today I logged my hundreth hour in the saddle for the year. Of course loads of people ride a whole lot more than that, but considering 100 hours was our goal for last year, I feel good about being here in August. I rode Laredo. With our little time out of town, the trail rides… 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 »
Surprise Riding Time
We were planning on a trip to Arizona this week, but the flights were not in our favor. So we ended up staying with my parents for a few days and then heading back to Iowa City. I could have gone back to work, but I already changed my calendar. And besides, I’ve got tons… 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 »
Early Morning Tireds
Last time we got up early and headed out to the barn right away, I was the tired one. This time, it was my horse. I can only think that the two new young horses added to our herd last night kept Laredo up and playing all night long. When we arrived everyone was in… 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 »
Trot Time
Yesterday our pasture herd got a new member. A 3 year old solid Paint gelding named Tate arrived, and he and Laredo hit it off immediately. Today they were hanging out when we got to the barn, and Tate was pretty inclined to follow us out of the pasture. We persuaded him to stay behind.… Read more »