A horse safe pasture should be a high priority for every horse owner, especially since horses seem to be on a mission to destroy themselves. Horses spend a lot of time in their pastures, or all their time, if they are pasture kept, and keeping a pasture safe is much cheaper than paying vet bills to[...]
Before children, I took for granted being able to get my hair cut. Now, wow, what a luxury. I actually hate getting my hair done, it takes too long and I nearly always don't like the results, but it is necessary. My hair starts to look pretty ratty and gross if I go longer than a year without a hai[...]
Life on the farm is always busy. (Just keep boarding, it's so much easier.) But it's amazing how much I can get done when I just dedicate a few hours here and there to it. "And when the morning work is done, our farm friends will have so much fun." - From a board book I've read the baby about 50 mi[...]
A shadow across the land. A breeze of cool mist. The sound of swift feet. That is me, for I am the Weed Hunter. For too long have weeds plagued my fields. As horses rip the grass down to the dirt around them, they remain strong. I have watched them, their giant cabbage leaves ma[...]
Two things have been accomplished in the last few days. I'm so excited to be making some progress! I actually don't know which I'm more excited about. They both give me satisfaction, but which gives me more? I'll have to think about this. First, Stu finally understands lunging. I do not[...]
Technically, the first day of spring is March 19th. But it's been so warm here, I think we can call it - it has definitely arrived. The first color of spring is always yellow - the daffodils and forsythia. My first reaction to the warmth is how happy I am to get outside again[...]
Blue is the color of so many beautiful things. The great expanse of sky, the ocean, delicious Chesapeke Bay crabs. It's also the color of my house and barn, for unknown reasons. It's as though someone went to the hardware store, asked for the most sickly color of blue they carried, and then vomite[...]
I feel like I've been complaining about winter too much recently. It's cold, miserable, muddy, etc. This may come as a shock, but I actually don't hate winter. Really, I just like complaining. There are lots of nice things about winter that I can appreciate, especially since the pipes in my barn a[...]
Now that I've had my shed for two years now, I feel confident in circling back around to review it. I bought my shed way back in fall of 2017 for two reasons - to house some yearlings while I constructed a more permenant structure for them, and then to house farm equipment and hay. I was very[...]
I have been hard at work in the barn. My first focus is putting in stalls so I can actually bring in the horses out of the weather. Technically I could before, as I just used the whole open space for Stu, but Pony didn't really have a stall, he lived in the hallway of the main barn, and this way th[...]