We spent the weekend in the Chicago area visiting my family and meeting our new niece. We also got to spend a lot of quality time with our 2 year old nephew. It was my first time playing Easter Bunny, too. When we got back into town Sunday afternoon we were tired and hungry, but… Read more »
the routine
So Much For Spring
We woke up to snow and chilly temps, but headed for the barn right away in spite of the weather. We found the herd all tucked around the wind-block. Steen came trucking up to me as soon as he saw us, which was just fine because although I intended to give him the day off… Read more »
Um, Spring Break? Hello?
Today we woke up to snow, and it continued to snow throughout the morning. So we just headed out for the barn right away less we lose motivation or get stuck in the afternoon crowds. The guys were all tucked up against the windblock. I grabbed Bear and then got Laredo for Robin while she… Read more »
Frigid March
Today the farrier was out, so there were a bunch of people at the barn to get their horses feet done. Brian and I got there early to fit in a ride before it was our turn. I rode Steen. It was a super cold morning, and he was riled up and snorty when we… Read more »
Getting Somewhere
We got to the barn early today and had the place to ourselves. Laredo came all the way out from behind the windblock and sloshed through the muck to get to me. He is, in fact, the best of our three horses about coming to us, I guess because we started working on that with… Read more »
More Energy
Bear has always been an extremely dependable horse. I can count on him to more or less go where I want him to and in the gait I want him to. He rarely spooks or gets frazzled, and he is always friendly. What I do struggle with is getting him to move out with more… Read more »
Cruisin on Laredo
We had our best ride together since sometime early in the fall. After that I wasn’t riding him a lot due to Steen’s injury. Then we had our couple of run-away moments just before the holidays (apparently I didn’t blog about the second one). They were excellent learning experiences, but they definitely set my Laredo… Read more »
Zoom
We probably could have ridden outside today as it was warmish and dry, but I was pretty tired and I also felt like another ride indoors on Laredo would be a good to build on the things we worked on last time. We started with a difficult bridling. There was some dried dirt and ickiness… Read more »
Back on the Kid
We’re definitely having a somewhat lackadaisical start the year in terms of riding. But the weather is never great in January, so we tend to figure we’ll get out there when we get out there and not worry too much about how often it is. Today it was time to get Laredo going again. Ever since he… Read more »
Home to Winter
After our weeks in sunny Arizona, getting back to Iowa (where there is snow on the ground and temps have been in the teens) has been a bit of an… adjustment. Between the backlog of work-related tasks and some work we’re having done on the house, we had an unusually busy week and didn’t manage… Read more »