Sunday, June 7, 2015 One more small step: first overnight trip. Douthat is a local state park with fantastic horse camping sites. It’s still in the county, barely an hour drive door to door, and has new covered stalls for the horses complete with buckets, water, and horse amenities like shovels and wheelbarrows and hayContinue reading “Manure on our Shoes”
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You Get What You Need
Friday, June 5, 2015 As I rode around the “neighborhood” I couldn’t help but sing along in my head… you can’t always get what you want…. oh you can’t always get what you want…. you can’t always get what you want… but if you try sometimes… you just might find… That’s what riding Friday feltContinue reading “You Get What You Need”
No Kicking!
Monday, June 1, 2015 Khaleesi went on her third “long ride” with the girl gang on Friday. We did a one-way, 12 mile ride, dropped off by a horse husband (not mine đŸ™‚ ) and ending back at their barn. I went to pick her up in our field and she loaded within a coupleContinue reading “No Kicking!”
Not so Fine Tuning
Monday, May 25, 2015 Green to 100 is on the road now. Memorial Day we loaded up and rode to meet our riding family Nancy and Carrington for a 12 mile loop that is a nice “easy” 12 as it’s shaded, lots of water, and not much altitude- small hills but no real mountain climbs.Continue reading “Not so Fine Tuning”
Gone Solo
Friday, May 22, 2015 A few posts ago I talked about doing epic things with very non-epic steps on a very regular basis. Today marks just about 10 months since I brought Khaleesi home and in less than a year we’ve gone from barely halter broke to a real riding horse on her way toContinue reading “Gone Solo”
MaintenanceÂ
Saturday, May 16, 2015 We are in maintenance mode right now. As a musician and teacher, the end of May is when everything culminates in a glorious bustle of concerts, juries, final performances and of course weddings. This means I’m pretty much booked for 8-12 hours 4-5 days a week with performances or weddings onContinue reading “Maintenance “
Time. Truth. Heart.
Friday, May 1, 2015 Rainshowers bring spring flowers. Great. Also mud, and lightning. I don’t have any particular reason yet to go out in down pouring thunderstorms. I may be a little crazy, but I haven’t gotten to that point yet. So no ride today. We’ve postponed our ride to Saturday because it appears toContinue reading “Time. Truth. Heart.”
She’s Got a Ticket to Ride
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 Riding in my first LD event was a big step for team green to 100. With more reflection I am glad we participated in the ride instead of only volunteering because I learned a lot about what my horses need in their conditioning and home riding to be prepared for futureContinue reading “She’s Got a Ticket to Ride”
The No Frills
Saturday, April 25, 2015: Race Day 4:45am: I am not freezing. In fact I’m snugly warm in my cocoon. The first time I woke up was 1:20am. I think there was a loose horse stampeding around outside. I have always heard you don’t get much sleep before your ride. That seems like it would make itContinue reading “The No Frills”
Base camp
Friday, April 24, 201 I’m writing (offline) from my cocoon at 9:30pm snuggled in with at least two layers of clothing and a hat and scarf (my gloves are in here but not on yet) in my sleeping bag suspended about 18 inches from the rubber mat floor of my horse trailer. I am notContinue reading “Base camp”
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