I appear to have an 's' theme lately.   I'm not fond of this addition. Encore continues to enable my phenomenal overthinking p...

Yep, Encore decided a whole month was far too long to be separated from Dr. Bob.  Despite the terror-inducing zombie cows that live at the v...

There's a little town in England where cows live in everlasting terror.  It is called Walsall and it is home to, among others, the saddl...

I'm used to having a difficult to fit horse.  Solo, with his curvy back and hollows behind the withers, is enough to give any saddle fit...

Tomorrow is forecast to be very wet and stormy, so perhaps I will get a chance to put together a real post then, but until that time -- En...

Sometimes it is just very hard to write.  I try not to let my personal life (well, the non-horsey parts) bleed into the blog.  I don't t...

I don't think I can describe saddle fitting any better than I did here :  a form of torture akin to holding one's hands in a campfi...

We have officially completed our first outing at Training Level!  It was our favourite local venue, who hosted a schooling show with a Combi...

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...

Not familiar with that acronym? Well, it is what I own: a S tupid F *cking H orse. Just in case you thought life with Solo was all sunsh...

Our sights are fixed on Longleaf Pines HT.  There are four and a half weeks between now and then.  OMG, THERE ARE FOUR AND A HALF WEEKS BETW...

For quite some time, Solo and I played in the sandbox in a Wintec Dressage Pro . However, it was no longer fitting for us, so it was time t...

My time and energy to write is failing to keep up with all the things that are happening! So here is my cop-out with a list and teaser of c...

I will interject again with a brief Solo update!  Because this is the Solo blog!  So I must talk about Solo! Hmmm, I think my blood sugar ...

Because today, I am very happy and very very sad. Very happy because the saddle fitter worked on Solo's saddles for two hours yesterda...

To add to our review series, I thought I'd talk a little about saddles.  I started out with a secondhand old-style medium tree Crosby ev...

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 ...

So the Dark Times began. I was convinced my saddle didn't fit. Solo was fighting me tooth and nail against lifting his back and it&#...