Showing posts with label humour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humour. Show all posts
April 30, 2020

A Different Kind Of Derby

In an effort to give us all something to think about that is not tragic or terrifying, I present to you the following: This weekend is the...

February 7, 2015

Priceless Tips For Working Safely Outside

Still my favourite safety graphic... All of us have reason to challenge The Great Outdoors.  Some of us even get paid ( sort of ) for it...

December 24, 2014

A Few Of My Favourite Things!

Sing it with me now! *dons epic Julie Andrews voice , click if you need to tune yours...* Haynets on doorknobs and blankets draped sid...

February 5, 2014

The Auger Returns: A One-Act Play

Setting:   A mild day in a North Carolina field.  Two people are going about the business of setting a 6 x 6 and a 4 x 4 post as anchors for...

January 11, 2014

Farm + Paint = Estate!

L. Williams ( so you know who to blame ) requested some more samples of my exquisite Paint artistry ( I can't really blame them, I mean...

January 4, 2014

A Little Video Of Solo And I Playing Bareback In The Winter

I didn't feel like getting the tack out so, I just looped the lead rope around and hopped on.  Sorry, I was so excited about the new i...

November 26, 2013

How To Dig A Hole

You have a tractor and a big auger that has been dying to eat some dirt, so no problem, right?  Perfect timing, because you have a mailbox t...

June 17, 2013

How To Make A Lasting First Impression

Perhaps you have a job interview for that dream position or perhaps you are pitching a hot new idea at a big meeting.  You want to blow thei...

October 29, 2011

It Only Takes 30 Minutes To Feed The Horses

Especially on a cold, rainy evening.  There's only six of them, easy, right? Bring horses in, dump the feed, turn them back out, done! ...

May 26, 2011

A Carolina Rodeo

I am coaxing a knee back into cooperation and I just got dexamethasone shot into my spine (hey, now me and Solo have even more in common!). ...

April 21, 2011

SFH Has An SFO

The O is for O wner. In case you wondered. Lesson: do not fire off an angry email to your saddle fitter because you are exhausted and f...

March 31, 2011

What I Wish I Was Doing Today

Was that really only two weeks ago ? Hard to believe on this drizzly, grey day. What I am ACTUALLY doing today - It's just not t...

March 17, 2011

Are You Ready To Be A Horse Owner?

Wondering if you are ready to take the big step of having a horse of your own? I have come up with an iron-clad test of preparedness for ...

August 5, 2010

Buddy Plug

Ohhh, I just realized that may be a poor title choice, but it made me giggle, so there.  This is just a PSA to help out a good friend in her...

March 19, 2010

How To Blanket A Horse

I bet you thought you knew how to perform this simple skill, didn't you? Well, around our place, some technique modification is required...

February 19, 2010

Best. Saddle Ad. Ever.

World's most uncomfortable saddle ------------------------------------------------------------ Date: 2010-01-01, 11:41PM PST ------...

September 23, 2009

How To Make A Nun Cuss

Tell her to fit a saddle to a horse and rider. It'll work, I promise. As I mentioned, after the failure of SF#1 to satisfy, I moved ...

September 21, 2009

One Month Of Bending Does Not A Dressage Horse Make

Let me clarify my ambivalence Or how about "My Horse Is A Doofus."  Or “The Near Explosion of My Head & Subsequent Murder...

August 25, 2009

Jumping Clinic With...Me

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...