Adventures with my favorite horses
This week I realized how color coordinated I’ve become over time. I obviously gravitate to certain colors… And this is what happens when you give your friend your phone to take pictures and don’t pay attention… On to some recent…
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Getting back on the blog hop wagon with this new one from L at Viva Carlos. What is the best advice you’ve ever received from a Trainer or another rider? What is the worse advice you’ve received from a Trainer…
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It’s always hard to go back to the everyday life of working and riding and being busy after being on vacation. I got the boys back on schedule and had some great rides this week. Stampede Stampede and I got…
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So last weekend the husband and I went on our annual anniversary trip. Since we reached 5 years of marriage now we figured we should go a bit further and explore the west side of the country some more. So…
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First things first, I finally got my second Ogilvy pad all sorted out (they sent the wrong inserts the first time) and it’s officially in action! This one belongs to Mr. P. 1″ inserts with front lifts for the pony…
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With the horse show over, Stampede took a vacation until Thursday. He spent his mornings napping in his pasture and evenings eating grass in the shade of some big trees. Sounds luxurious to me! Thursday Stampede had a lunge in…
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The theme for the show weekend was the inability of my huge horse to make it down the lines because he was just SO exhausted. We schooled well Thursday, a bit lazy over fences after a slightly spooky flat (that…
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As a rider who spends what I believe to be an above average amount of time riding bareback (at least once a week), I wanted to review the two different bareback pads I’ve owned and used. Coolback Bareback Pad Since…
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Here’s another Viva Carlos Blog Hop! From L: We love our horses, but we are human. Being human means we are prone to mistakes, some of us try to gloss over and hide them. A lot of it has to…
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As you can tell from my last post about Hoary Alyssum, my week wasn’t really that great for riding. Monday was the first day the boys’ legs starting getting big. P was looking ouchy all over pretty much so I…
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