Neighbouring Grayson Highlands SP has feral ponies. With fuel prices up, bills to pay, time at a premium, and my bestest riding buddy wi...

I'm terrible at it.  So perhaps it's a good thing I've been left in charge of the farm this weekend while everyone is shining th...

If you don't know by now, I think the worst thing you can do to your sporthorse is make it an arena baby ( edited to add:  ok, obviously...

I could smell it already -- the clean air in a silent forest at the top of the mountain, a living quiet broken only by the sound of hooves o...

While Encore was pacing in his prison alone (so he says), I ran away like a rabbit with fire ants on its tail to the mountains.  The legenda...

I know you have earned an Encore update, but I have some amazing images to upload and organize first. At the moment, however, I have somet...

Plan:   Wake up, load up, leave farm about 9:00, take Encore and Pete along with me and lifeshighway to the Moss Foundation on a perfect rid...

I bet a get a lot of google hits off that title.  If I add the word "cat" I might be able to garner the entire internet to this bl...

It's no secret I'm a firm believer that an event horse MUST NOT be an arena baby.  They need to learn balance on uneven terrain, sur...

At least that's what Encore sings.  He finished our FIRST solo (not to be confused with Solo) trail ride together and he did a great job...

This forest has been cut over multiple times.  In the clearing where Solo and I stopped, I could see tertiary growth, immature pine trees at...

I confess to weariness after a long week and a busy weekend.  My boss and I ran a three day fish meeting in the mountains and that was enoug...

PetAg nutrition is sponsoring an awareness campaign for National Pet Obesity Awareness Day (I don't think they mean just NOTICING your ...

Stardate: 1st of October in the year 2011.  The scene:   Umstead State Park , site of 13 miles of lovely bridle trails, located convenien...

The setting sun makes a bright corona around orange ears as we ride directly into its fierce shine.  The light brushes seedheads and the lea...

Encore is used to having a job, so I decided to spend the weekend introducing him to our trails around the farm.  We've got hours worth,...

Field work has kept me away from both horse and computer for the past week as we've been out snorkeling Carolina rivers, in our endless ...

First, if you didn't already catch it on Eventing Nation , I MUST share the utter brilliance fellow blogger Anastasia posted over at Tea...

Brown grass crunches underfoot and I swat only half-effectively at deer flies.  Solo's neck stays permanently wet with a white crust of ...

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!). ...