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December 5, 2022

Why Do We Do This?

There are times where I wonder why I still have horses. My life seems complicated enough as it is, and then add that I have three horses spread out on two different properties, all the expense of keeping them, all the time spent caring for them, and all the frustration they add into my life, it jus[...]

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October 17, 2022

The First Three Rides

I am now riding my own horse, a truly incredible feat. After a bit of a rocky start, he's smoothed out and doing much better. My trainer did do lots of groundwork and rides in the last two weeks to get him to this point, but I was not present for most of it. I think it's better that I didn't see th[...]

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October 10, 2022

Bringing Stu Home

It's been just shy of two years since I sent Stu away. Life has changed so much since then. Well, I birthed out my litter of babies. That's basically it... with me I mean. I guess the world as a whole has gone through some changes, some of which effect me, others do not. But this isn't the tim[...]

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F#, Horses, Uncategorized
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February 23, 2022

My Big Beautiful Warmblood (an update)

Stu has been in training for over a year now. My, how time flies when I spent most of it laying sick in bed! But I had the cause of my sickness forcibly evicted, so that part is behind me. Let's look ahead to the future. Wait no, we aren't looking ahead yet - we are looking at how Stu is doing now![...]

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September 25, 2021

Onward to Fall

Things have been pretty quiet around here. There's not a whole lot I can do, now that I'm the size of a small whale. Since there's twins in there, I already look like a full term pregnant woman. And I still have over a month left.  This is trying for a flattering pose. Most of the time I'm[...]

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July 27, 2021

Big Man Stubert

It may surprise a few horse lovers to know that I have only visited Stu one time since he went to training - about two weeks after I sent him there. Life gets pretty busy, that's all I can say.  Luckily he has been in good hands, and I haven't worried about him at all. I have been wanting to s[...]

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December 7, 2020

Stu’s New Adventure

Back in November, Stu was living at my farm, enjoying the good life. He got fed, he got water, he slept and ate as much as he wanted. But Stu wanted more. He knew there was something out there he was missing.  So Stu started jumping the fence. Again. The first time, well, I guess things happen[...]

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June 18, 2020

Ground Work for the Dominant Horse

I started out with trying to work with Stu on the lunge, but I realized that he just really needs the ground work element to build upon. I'm moving forward on heavy ground workout for Stu, so I went to YouTube for some ideas. I've done groundwork before, but it was so long ago, back when I was a te[...]

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May 20, 2020

The Dominant Horse

Stu is a dominant horse. It took me a surprisingly long time to realize this.  There were many times I made excuses for his behavior. He's a little bit slow, he doesn't understand what I want, etc. etc.  But what actually is taking place is he just doesn't want to do it. He's incredibly l[...]

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May 14, 2020

Shot from the Top

My deck overlooks my pasture, and I've been wanting to experiment with getting overhead photos of the horses. One day the horses were hanging out by the deck so I seized my chance.  While I didn't get exactly what I was looking for, I love their reactions.  Pony is trying to figure out[...]

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