Showing posts with label longeing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label longeing. Show all posts
August 5, 2019
Introducing Whips To The Sensitive Horse
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In case you missed it, Echo is Sensitive Horse. Alert to everything HE thinks is interesting or surprising, but without being scary about i...
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May 18, 2019
Progress And Setbacks
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Because you can't have one without the other, at least when it comes to horses. As I mentioned in my last post, Echo recently got a pr...
December 22, 2014
The Air Of Heaven…A Horse’s Ears…You Know How It Goes
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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...
June 21, 2014
Please Press Pause
Taken from the tractor seat... Letting the diesel idle, I pause the tractor on a berm in the top pasture. It’s that quiet intermission ...
May 18, 2013
There And Back Again
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It feels like we’ve been away. Lost in some nebulous pocket of time where we’ve been bouncing in circles, up and down the emotional roller...
March 16, 2013
The Becky Diaries: Day 5: Long Lining
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With each day of surreally amazing experience & knowledge streaming in front of me, my brain gets progressively more loopy ( a terrifyin...
June 14, 2012
Equine Psychology And The Meaning Of It All
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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...
November 29, 2011
Vacation's Over, Baby
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Thank you so much to all of you who have participated thus far in the 2011 Fix Solo For Christmas Sale! I have a bunch of things stacked up...
September 22, 2011
I'm Afraid Of Good Things
There, I said it. Because I have to admit, the magic of Encore scares the hell out of me! Are you on crack, crazy woman? you query incre...
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...
June 3, 2011
Yay, I Love Spending Money!
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Did you notice the sarcasm font? Oh, Solo. See, I get a little crazy when I can't ride. Ok, I get a lot crazy. I get all balled up...
July 15, 2010
Fitting Up
There is no doubt Solo lost some fitness during his month-long break. I still don't regret it for a second because that weariness that ...
July 11, 2010
Vienna Veritas
Longeing a horse can be a very valuable tool for a variety of reasons. I personally find it extremely useful for building a horse's top...