Pony, being a full grown 5 year old pony, needs to get out and see the world. I can show him the world.... you know, if I feel like. But in this case, D'Arcy will show him the world. She started by riding him last weekend. So, to give you a brief recap of the life of Pony, I bought him as a yearling, he spent 4 months at trai[...]
I go to the nearby park quite a bit to ride. I have an arena at my house, but it's good to get off the property. Also, the park's arena is way bigger, and that makes it easier to ride in. And there's trails at the park. And it's a de-sensitizing dream, with dogs, kids, soccer, cars, random people who sit staring at you so long, you wonder[...]
In the span of a week, my flock of chickens has doubled. It started one warm afternoon when I walked up to my chicken coop. I peeked in to take a look, and I heard little cheeps. My first thought was, that better not be what I think it is. I crawled into the coop, and found a little nesting hen. I lifted her up, and two little ch[...]
With the feeling of spring upon us, I, like many mare owners, have the temptation to do something a little naughty. Not everyone likes appaloosas. I'm sure there's some of you looking at Vintage and thinking of appaloosa spawn... It's not my fault she always looks like she wants to destroy whoever she sees. I don't pick her[...]
We had beautiful weather in Virginia this past weekend. It is basically spring, which means all the plants are preparing for spring, and they will probably die when it goes back to freezing weathering. Only the strong shall survive. D'Arcy and I took advantage of the nice weather by going for a long trail ride at Manassas Battlefield. I[...]
I feel like the above photo wouldn't look at all out of place in the 70's. It just has such a 70's horse feel to it. Something about her (our) pig-like body, and the color tone, it just screams it. But I digress. Keeping my motivation going, I trailered back out again, this time taking Shelby with me. We went to the ring again for some[...]
I decided to get my brain in gear and get out and ride. The pull was too strong. I keep seeing ads for shows or events I want to do, and I think to myself, wow, if my horses were in shape, I could go do that. So even though I won't be able to do the event in two weeks, I could still maybe do an event in 4 weeks. The days will be getting l[...]
Above is the closest I've been to riding a horse recently. And that's not even me playing it! That's Dave playing an online horse jumping game. He would miss the jumps, but magically, the jumps would become transparent for him to just canter through. This was only a safeguard to avoid injury though, the rider was still very disappointed i[...]
Because it's hard to get people to come over and look at my scrapbooks, here it is in digital form to be forced upon you. This picks up from my earlier complaints about my cruise, and then my post on how amazing flamingos at the zoo are. St. Thomas The next cruising stop was St. Thomas, in the American Virgin Islands. Because I'm co[...]
Yay! A new year is upon on! It's time to make plans, and set some goals! I didn't do great with my riding goals this year, which I'm directly blaming on working different hours. Also, the changing of the amount of light in the days...you know that thing that the earth does when it changes its position, and then the time of sunlight[...]