A sexy Solo, 11 yrs old & no idea of what lay ahead It was the summer of 2007. Things were going ok. My horse no longer resemble...

Show number two in our home farm hunter series approached rapidly. There could be no more excuses. We were going to be hunter champions, d...

Well, I had no manageable canter but that did not deter me: our farm had a schooling hunter show coming up and danged if I wasn't going...

Clearly, I was a genius. I had just put together a rig for less than $12,000 TOTAL. It was safe, sturdy, reliable and even PRETTY! I had...

As I intimated in my clinic post, trailering had suddenly become an issue in the winter of 2006. At the time, I had my cherry red 1987 WW w...

I have been hard at work this weekend! Ok, ok, I have been sitting in the barn, soaking up the aura into every fiber of my being. The Solo...

We kept practicing. Slowly longeing became less about torture and Solo became less convinced that I would beat him to death. We could walk...

And it was finally time: here I had bought this horse to supposedly be a hunter, perhaps it would be fitting if I actually tried to jump hi...

Facilities! You name it -- we had it! Full jump course, stadium arena, TWO covered arenas, 15 miles of trails on 900 acres, even a little ...

I LOVED our farm.  We were the only boarders there aside from one retirement boardee.  N, the owner, took impeccable & customized care...

I had been told by the seller that Solo "didn't longe" because she had let another girl work with him and she had spun him in ...

I hung on the fence for hours, my chin on the top board, just watching My Horse. He grazed, he rolled, he "talked" to his pasture...

It was Memorial Day weekend 2006. S.O. was away on business, so I could not drag him with me, but at least I had something to do now! I fo...

I was tired of driving around, but one final ad caught my eye: a chestnut Appendix QH named "Benson," with a little chrome. The ...

I flipped the switch.   I gave myself permission to horse shop.  I searched, I visited, I tried.  A 3 year old black Percheron who was gree...

All girls dream of ponies.  For at least a brief time in their lives.  Some girls never stop dreaming. That's me. When I was growi...

I'm going to tell the story of us. Of me and Solo. Because I think it might help me to clarify not only where we need to go next in ou...