One of the most exciting things that could happen, happened at my little farm. I got a delivery of stone dust. Stone dust means possibilities. It meant I could finally fill in the lost footing in my arena. It means I can level out the horse stalls, level my driveway, and fill in the area arou[...]
We have a joke in my house. Dave, the IT Expert, degree in IT, worked in IT his entire career, has magnetic fingers that short out everything electronic in our house. He did a basic update on my desktop, desktop broke and required parts replacement. Then, while casually doing nothing online, the com[...]
Back in December, I mentioned that Vintage had jumped out her stall window when I took the other horses off the property. She had some stall rest, she got a general lameness check by the vet, and she was declared pasture sound, but not sound for riding, although she was improving. It's possible if I[...]
Upperville's Hunter Derby was Saturday, and let's get the preliminaries out of the way. Despite my reminder on Instagram, no one made the deadline to request my presence in their VIP space. I'm very disappointed in everyone. Additionally, standing next to the entrance of the VIP tent and looki[...]
Every year I go to Upperville, because it is always wonderful. I think this year was the best yet, with everything extremely organized, lots of vendors, and lots going on. For those who don't know what Upperville is, here's the briefest history: The oldest horse show in the nation The Uppervi[...]
The nice thing about meeting other bloggers is you already know what you have in common: (obviously) horses. I'd been following Sarah from A Soft Spot for Stars for some time now, possibly as long as I've been blogging, and a few months ago we started talking directly online. One thing t[...]
Pony is a coward. The times he's gone off the property he has been fearful, and scared. When he was out at training, his trainer would purposely take him for walks around the barn, where he would spook at the same things he saw everyday in his daily life, the sawdust pile, the hay bales, the dog, de[...]
Berry's birthday was yesterday. She is now 7 years old. Pony was a bit disgruntled, possibly because I completely forgot about his birthday. His birthday was exactly one week ago. He just turned 5. Sorry Pony. I'll do something for you at a later time. Not that he would appreciate it, of c[...]
People keep offering me their horses. Only the title is actually misleading, they aren't offered them to me to keep, most of the time, they are offering for me to take their horse to care for it, until they are ready to come get it. As though I won't mind at all, what's one more horse to take care o[...]
The above picture cracks me up. It just looks so casual, like I'm not even moving, just relaxing - "Oh hey guys, what you are up to? I'm just sitting on this horse here, I'll probably be finished about noon." I feel like I'll never shut up about these dang lead changes. I still don't have confir[...]