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 what I'm doing. Pony took the opport[...]
Many places across the US are opening back up for business, which is great for those who have been starved of horse contact. Naturally, this is the perfect time to get lots of photos of your equine friend. But, of course you get lots of pictures of your horse. Everyone does. It wouldn't be normal not to takes lots and lots of pictures. B[...]
Over the weekend the temperatures dropped down to freezing. In case you forgot the date due to living in this groundhog day situation, it's May now. Gold Cup would have been on Saturday, a day when we usually all don summer dresses and stand outside in the sunshine (also sometimes the rain.) But the point is, it's supposed to be warm rig[...]
I've really condensed the name of these now. It's better this way. My New Scheme I got on Berry the other day, but I got way too into my own head and got scared. A lot of this stemmed from feeling very insecure in my leg. I was thinking about how I could get a secure leg, and I had an idea. I have another horse t[...]
International Velvet is the sequel to National Velvet, an adorable old film about a girl who races her horse in the Grand National. I loved National Velvet - part of that is nostalgia to watching it as a kid, and part of it is that it's just a good movie! After recently re-watching National Velvet for the above post, I decided it was tim[...]
I've already been posting about this on Facebook, but not everyone follows me on Facebook. (AHEM, maybe you should!). My friend Sarah has twins - Twin foals, not twin humans. I've known Sarah for 9 years now. I bought Berry from her. I sent Pony to her for training. Sarah is a really interesting person. She used to work with racehorses.[...]
Following up on the previous post about Xenophon, I wanted to look at what he actually wrote in The Art of Horsemanship. How close is it to modern horsemanship? Would we follow these ideas today? If you'd like to read The Art of Horsemanship, it's available free here. He starts his book with the selection of the horse.[...]
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 million times. I think I can quote most of[...]
The famous Xenophon, horseman of the ancient world. He is widely considered an expert in horses. His book, The Art of Horsemanship or On Horsemanship has been referenced in many modern guides to horses. The United States Dressage Federation lists it as a suggested reading. This manual is a classic, written by Xenophon, a[...]
I have not been writing as much as I'd like. Sometimes life just gets in the way, and makes it really hard to sit down and write uninterrupted. I've been spending a lot of evenings doing farm work, which is my normal writing time. Then I come in to write something, but I am interrupted. Not by an actual interruption, just an inability to[...]