It feels like I do more photography than anything else these days, but really the photography is just the easiest to share. Although also the easiest to do, while taking care of a baby. It's hard to ride and take care of a baby at the same time. But anyway - I'm still working on developing my skill, and I thought I'd venture into p[...]
The first snowfall of the winter has come! It's beautiful to look at, and I love it for photos. For practical purposes though, man, I hate snow. It just adds a layer of annoyance when taking care of the horses. Its annoying to walk through, it's annoying to clear it away, and it's annoying when it melts and refreezes. I had a fun w[...]
I've been leaning heavily on Christmas themed Instagram pictures. 'Tis the season, afterall! There's no denying that Christmas brings out beautiful decorations, and I love seeing what other people do. But, as I have mentioned, I am a reformed grinch, so I don't actually have a whole lot of decorations. I'm also against buying new stuff,[...]
We spent another holiday at the beach. This seems to be becoming a trend. I'm practicing my landscape photography and collected quite a few photos. Here are my favorites. Feels like going to summer camp! If only the horses could go... but the HOA says no horses. Sheesh, HOA's never want anyone to have fun[...]
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 excited about having more storage space[...]
I may have gone a little crazy on Instagram. I mainly used to post photos of my horses, usually out in their pasture, but I'm going to be honest here - I was running out of inspiration. I'd still take the photos, but they all seemed so alike. I was boring myself. So I decided to take a new direction. If you follow me on[...]
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 they both get a stall. I'm also working on[...]
Time slips away so fast... It's been so busy, I hadn't even noticed how long it's been since I posted! So I decided to share pictures from my Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is for family time, so we packed up the baby and the dogs and headed to my parent's new house on the Cheseapeke Bay. They had sold the farm I grew up on last year,[...]
I spend a lot of time at the barn, but during work this past weekend, I spent more than usual, so I got to see all sorts of fun stuff. At one point I was driving the tractor out and I accidentally disturbed a next of field mice. The mom bolted with some babies still attached, but left one behind so I had to reunite the family. Although f[...]
The barn has needed repairs since we moved in, which embarrassingly, was 7 years ago. It took a while to work through the procrastination. But, now that I've started, I'm very excited to continue, and all I want to do it keep working on it. It's really not that hard, and it's so rewarding to see instant results. The barn as a whol[...]