This morning we met a fellow boarder and her friend to go out on a trail ride. She has two, cute Icelandic Horses that live in the same pasture as our guys. So we would have almost half the herd on the trail ride. Since we’re still adjusting to things with the hackamore, I decided… Read more »
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Hitting the Trails
Today we met up with Kat, the owner of two Icelandic horses at our barn, and her friend Megan. We decided to go trail-blazing, and check out some areas we hadn’t explored before. We got a pretty early start, but the day was already warm as we made our way off Cathi’s property. Steen was… Read more »
Some Good Hours
Saturday we got invited on a little trail-riding expedition. We headed out in the morning. It was a group of six horses and riders: 3 paints, 3 quarter-horses. Which is actually kind of funny because the breed selection of at our barn is fairly diverse. Unrepresented breeds include Arab, American Showhorse, Saddlebred, Warmblood, Applaoosa, Thoroughbred… Read more »
Group Riding
Friday evening we received an email that there would be a morning ride at the barn. We planned on riding in the morning anyways, so we figured we would tag along. We arrive before most of the others, so we just did our normal thing and headed out to the strip to warm up. Bear… Read more »
The Horse I Have Today
It is easy to go into a ride with expectations. On the way out to the barn Brian and I were talking about some of the ideas he’s reviewing while rereading True Horsemanship Through Feel by Bill Dorrance. He mentioned how Bill likes to talk about making things into games by setting up little challenges, like can… Read more »
Motoring at the Walk
Today we went out for a fairly long (for us) trail ride. It was an absolutely gorgeous day. We received a little cold rain yesterday, and that helped green things up some. But today was in the low 60s with a bright, blue sky. As soon as I hopped on Bear I knew he was… Read more »
Back to the Salad Bowl
I figure I should provide an update on the game. It has been two weeks since I started using the game to get Bear to come to me in the pasture. Every time I’ve gone out I’ve used it, and I keep seeing improvement. He is not coming to me right away, but he does… Read more »
Out Enjoying the Weather
Looking out the window, you would never guess it’s only March. All last week our yard was carpeted in crocuses. The grass is up and growing like mad. This whole week was sunny and in the 60’s. Today we continued what we hope becomes our new Sunday tradition, which is to leave the barn behind.… Read more »
Catching Up
I’ve fallen a bit behind on my blog. Fortunately I have been getting plenty of riding in, I just haven’t done a good job posting about my rides. To sum up: Last week I continued to work quite a lot on loping. We went through a couple of days where the loping work had the undesirable effect… Read more »
Out and About
Things have been going very well in terms of getting Bear to come to me in the pasture. We aren’t quite to the stage where he will see me and then just come up to me. But the last few days have been great, usually taking less than a minute and only involving one or… Read more »