Life
3 fixes for mud in horse pastures
I’ve lived in different areas of the country and seen many ways to deal with muddy pastures and paddocks. Some places don’t really have to deal with mud while others have lovingly nicknames spring ‘mud season’. I currently live in Ohio. If I had HUGE pastures the horses might not tear up the footing but…
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Thank You for Loving Me…Video of nurse mare foals
This visit to Last Chance Corral planted a seed. The seed that it planted grew into me adopting Presto in 2016. I’m so happy I did and I look forward to giving you even more updates! Update: Presto is now two and a half years old. Below, in the comments, Marcia mentioned her teenaged nurse mare…
Read MoreHorse training requires long term thinking on bad days.
My body hurts. I’m moving slow. I’m thinking slower. My time zone change experiment three weeks ago, where I slowly changed my body clock to match Australia, worked. I arrived in Australia in pretty good shape. Coming home I went cold turkey. I did nothing to switch my body back…and now I feel it. My…
Read MoreVisiting Craig’s hut & The Man from Snowy River location
Five days at a horse expo means five days of seeing horses, touching horses and talking horses. You would think that after it ended the desire to look for horses would diminish but…nope. To finish our time here in Australia we did pick some things that were slightly less related to horses. Maybe. First up…
Read MoreEquitana 2018…where to begin
A four-day event like Equitana Australia is hard to sum up in a blog post. One of the best parts of traveling to horse expos is the great people I get to meet. This year Jesse and I had the chance to hang out with the other star presenters Chris Burton & Pedro Torres. I’ve made…
Read MoreVisiting Melbourne, Australia
It would seem that my ‘time zone change at home’ project may have worked! For about 12 days before we left home, I started shifting my sleep/awake times. Most notably I shifted my coffee drinking times. Just before leaving I was drinking my ‘morning’ coffee at 3 pm and my ‘afternoon’ coffee at 9 pm.…
Read MoreTravel: Leaving the horses at home
Owning horses is a lifestyle choice. Feeding, cleaning and caring for them is often considered by those around us (who don’t own horses) to look a lot like a full-time job. Or at least a very full part time job. I admit, it is. We choose it and we love it. Which is why leaving the…
Read More3 scary horse stories just in time for Halloween 2018
Here are some ‘scary’ horse stories for you to enjoy, plus many more in the comments! Feel free to add yours! Story #1 My husband and I volunteer at a horse rescue and one early spring day a few years ago were involved in a rescue training exercise that involved a life-size but very lightweight…
Read MoreDo it again…and again.
If you found your way to this post, and you’ve been to this website before, you probably notice a few changes. Ok, a LOT of changes. A do-over of sorts. I remember a time earlier in my life when I treated progress as a checklist. Completed grade 4. Completed grade 5. Completed grade 6. On…
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