It’s been a hot week, with heat index readings into the range where they recommend you be careful with your horses. The nights haven’t been cooling off, which means they don’t have a chance to recover from the brutal days. We’ve been taking it easy. Saturday It was Duke Day, and all our horses were… Read more »
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July is Kind (So Far)
Usually July in Iowa is not all that great. It tends to be hot, humid, and buggy. Not my favorite combo. This July has been much better than usual. We’ve had a lot of mild days. We’ve been getting out on the horses a lot. And as far as the blogging in concerned, that’s part… Read more »
A Quiet End to a Busy Month
It was quite the May. Between getting Zoey and a lot of pretty sub-par weather, the last few weeks have had their ups and downs. Today we arrived at the barn thinking we’d have a nice ride on Steen and Bear. The ground was still soggy and a lot of the places we usually ride… Read more »
Walking Out
I was a little tired this afternoon. Friday’s can get that way a lot. Especially if we’ve been getting to the barn a lot that week. But there was no question whether or not we’d go. It was absolutely gorgeous out. High 60s, sun, light wind. The only question was who to ride. I didn’t… Read more »
Cool, Sunny Trail Ride
In spite of having rather cushy work-weeks, Brian and I were both pretty tired heading out to the barn today. In the car, we chatted about what to do, and eventually agreed it would be nice to just take our two most solid ponies and hit the trail. We tacked up Steen and Bear, and… Read more »
Just the Two of Us
As I said in the previous post, I felt a little bad with how I rode Bear. I had to get out to the barn to get him the last of his meds and the first of his new supplement, so I figured I would make it up to him and have a nice, easy… Read more »
Out and About
I thought we’d be getting out there on the trails more regularly this spring, but we really haven’t. Even today it almost didn’t work out. We didn’t want to ride inside again, and we figured the surrounding areas would be too wet for our normal working rides, so we planned on an easy trail ride. … Read more »
New Territory
We got a bunch of rain in the night, so today the ground was pretty soggy everywhere we ride, but the sun was up and shining and we didn’t want to stay inside. We decided to hit the trails. I rode Steen and Brian rode Bear. We headed South and East after leaving the barn.… Read more »
Checking Things Out
Today would be my day to ride Laredo, but most of the day I kept thinking I owed Bear a soft, easy ride to see if we could find what was bothering him. Robin suggested I just do both. So I did. I groomed them both up, tacked Bear and put Laredo in the big… Read more »
More Bear Time
Heading out to the barn this morning I wasn’t sure who to ride. Normally we get into a rhythm where we alternate between our own horse and Laredo, but with the time off, we both could have ridden Laredo. We decided that Robin would ride Steen if he came to her, if not, she’d ride… Read more »