’Tis that time of year again don’t you know… Today is St Patrick’s Day! And what better way to celebrate than with horses? Yes, you read that right. Horses and St Patrick’s Day go together like green beer and regrettable decisions. The Irish have always had a thing for horses. Maybe it’s because they both […]
Happy Birthday Pins! 34 years ago I could never have pictured my life as it is now. Yes, I’d always loved horses but growing up with few opportunities to ride, the thought of owing a horse was not on my radar. But still I never give up The Dream – I never sold the saddle
The ABCs of Keeping a Horse Always Be Change-able: Have a Plan B… Plan C… Plan… As I drove to the barn, Plan A was to take Pins for a walk outside in the crisp, fresh winter air then in for a quick groom and a ride. That was the Plan anyway. BUT the ground
I’ve never been much on New Year’s resolutions: made with good intentions but often soon forgotten. But it seems right to hold good thoughts as we enter another year. I’ve borrowed this from Amber Lydic’s The Art of Equine Alchemy. “Close your eyes and image yourself in a relationship… Within this relationship you have no
On Inexperience Yes, unfortunately I’ve had my share, probably more than my share, of ‘unscheduled dismounts’ over the years, most attributed to my inexperience and/or lack of awareness of where my horse’s mind was. No excuse for lack of awareness but when it comes to horses, I don’t consider inexperience necessarily a bad thing. Coming
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Diamond In The Rough … even so, a having a horse is still a LOT of work and it can be frustrating when you live far from the barn. Often I’d get to the barn only to realize that I’d forgotten something and, with no quick run home to get it, I was stuck. So
It was a cold & windy night…. A typical March evening out in the country. Accompanied by a friend, who was an excellent rider and knew horses very well, we were driving to look at a horse. She talked about how she was looking for ‘a diamond in the rough’ for us – a backyard
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Unfortunately I was not born into the ‘Horse World’ I can’t remember a time that I didn’t love horses, dreanming that one day I would own one. But as a city-bound kid, confined to an urban world, I knew that wasn’t going to happen. So I fed my equine fantasy reading Jane Marshall Dillon’s “School