Showing posts with label trail ride. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trail ride. Show all posts
May 24, 2013
Climb Every Mountain
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Neighbouring Grayson Highlands SP has feral ponies. With fuel prices up, bills to pay, time at a premium, and my bestest riding buddy wi...
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thoughtful insights
October 13, 2012
Waiting....
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...
September 21, 2012
Rocky Mountain High
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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...
September 13, 2012
You Buy, You Break
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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...
June 2, 2012
(Much Needed) Good Times With Good Friends
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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...
May 29, 2012
Unscheduled PSA: Don't Be An Idiot; Don't Kill Your Horse
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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...
April 7, 2012
So, How Was Your Day?
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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...
March 24, 2012
Tantrums And Tree Sex
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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...
January 31, 2012
An Event Horse Isn't A One Trick Pony
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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...
October 17, 2011
I Feel Pretty
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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...
October 15, 2011
Autumn
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...
October 10, 2011
Yield, Sir, Yield!
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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...
October 6, 2011
Shout Outs And Miscellany
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PetAg nutrition is sponsoring an awareness campaign for National Pet Obesity Awareness Day (I don't think they mean just NOTICING your ...
October 1, 2011
Track To Trail
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Stardate: 1st of October in the year 2011. The scene: Umstead State Park , site of 13 miles of lovely bridle trails, located convenien...
September 29, 2011
He's Still There
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...
September 11, 2011
First Dates
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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,...
July 31, 2011
Just A Quickie
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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 ...
July 16, 2011
A Day At The Farm
First, if you didn't already catch it on Eventing Nation , I MUST share the utter brilliance fellow blogger Anastasia posted over at Tea...
July 4, 2011
It's Feeling HOT HOT HOT!
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Brown grass crunches underfoot and I swat only half-effectively at deer flies. Solo's neck stays permanently wet with a white crust of ...
May 26, 2011
A Carolina Rodeo
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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!). ...