Since everything here is soup -- well, after 22F last night, it is chunky soup -- thanks to what I will generously call "excessive prec...

I think most of us have an idea of a horse who is pleasant to work with:  he stands when tied, he picks up his feet when asked, he takes a b...

In case you missed it, Echo is Sensitive Horse.  Alert to everything HE thinks is interesting or surprising, but without being scary about i...

Echo & I had physical & mental assignments to tackle.  Both would take time, but that was a resource I had available, particularly t...

Uh, no, THIS is my sacred duty, mom... Yesterday, I rode.  Three simple words, yet in the context of the past year, an extraordinary thi...

OMG OMG OMG!  I CAN POST THE TROT! Whoever thought such news would be cause for excitement?  But I could barely contain my glee Wednesday ...

Summers are frustrating for me.  It's field season at work, which means I am doing this... ...while losing my body weight in swe...

The helmet cam is so much more than XC courses!  I put it on a week or so ago to tape Encore in the round pen, where I was briefly going to ...

This will be a long one.  Hopefully it will not fall into the TL;DR category, but my brain has been busy in last 48 hours and we've mad...

Wednesday, two shiny red boys went to visit Dr. Bob's trusty sidekick, Dr. Brian, who does lots of bodywork. Encore was first; he nee...

Disclaimer Again: I am not, nor have I ever claimed to a professional anything (except maybe Professional Dispenser Of Sarcasm). Horse t...