Showing posts with label conditioning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conditioning. Show all posts
April 16, 2013
Look, It's Hard Being Six People At The Same Time

So many posts that need writing, so little brainpower available to throw at them. But there are exciting things coming up, I swear, includi...
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thoughtful insights
January 30, 2013
I Have No Words

So you'll just have to read it yourself. You see, we have been busy. Physical therapy is momentarily taking over my life, but I'v...
January 11, 2013
Silly People Pay To Traipse Through Mud; I Get That Pleasure For Free
Yeah, I never did get that whole "yay, let me pay you so I can roll in the mud and ice and get really dirty AND we can call it a race!!...
September 21, 2012
Rocky Mountain High

If you don't know by now, I think the worst thing you can do to your sporthorse is make it an arena baby ( edited to add: ok, obviously...
August 31, 2012
An Anniversary? Seriously?

It's hard to believe but nearly a year ago, magic happened and a classy chestnut gelding found his way from Delaware to Southern Pines t...
July 28, 2012
Can I Make The Impossible Possible?

This is how it goes: Monday I am getting ready for field work, fixing the stuff broken in last week's field work, or driving to field...
July 7, 2012
On Again, Off Again

Summers are frustrating for me. It's field season at work, which means I am doing this... ...while losing my body weight in swe...
April 7, 2012
So, How Was Your Day?

Plan: Wake up, load up, leave farm about 9:00, take Encore and Pete along with me and lifeshighway to the Moss Foundation on a perfect rid...
March 24, 2012
Tantrums And Tree Sex

I bet a get a lot of google hits off that title. If I add the word "cat" I might be able to garner the entire internet to this bl...
January 31, 2012
An Event Horse Isn't A One Trick Pony

It's no secret I'm a firm believer that an event horse MUST NOT be an arena baby. They need to learn balance on uneven terrain, sur...
January 20, 2012
Don't Forget To Not Ride

I spent this evening in the aisle with Encore. A mild rain tap-tap-tapped the metal roof as I ran my hands over his neck, back, and hindqua...
July 31, 2011
Just A Quickie

Field work has kept me away from both horse and computer for the past week as we've been out snorkeling Carolina rivers, in our endless ...
June 12, 2011
Killing Time While Broken
I don't take being grounded well. I mope. I pout. I whine. I generally make myself a nuisance to those poor souls who for some unkno...
May 25, 2011
Ah, The Stories

Who, me?? What stories to tell? How about when Solo decided to exit his stall, sans halter, sans me, Friday night & trot briskly ...
April 7, 2011
Springiness

A visitor outside my office window Azaleas are in full bloom under the bright wings of swallowtail butterflies. Trees are pushing out ea...