Bullet points becasue if I don't write anything I'll get overwhelmed with being behind ( Read more... )

I was able to work Tru-D again yesterday morning because my 8am was sick (so many sick people canceled this past month). I used the Parelli feather lines again and attached them between the cheek pieces and throatlatch in the cross-under configuration. I had Susanne mucking in the arena so I took Tru-D out and around the house ( Read more... )

Yesterday we hooked up Kitt again, this time with the shafts rotated upside down. I'm sure there is some driver out there who might have a coronary about that, but the enclosed shafts let us cheat like that. It put the cart level and I could actually put the shaft loops on the backband rings rather than my usual jury-rigging with carabiners * ( Read more... )

So two weeks ago Sunday I gave a talk in church. In the LDS chruch we don't have a preacher. The Bishop presides and sometimes conducts (sometimes one of the counselors conducts as well), but he doesn't usually share doctrine from the pulpit. Instead we get to hear talks from various people in the congregation, usually a youth speaker and then a ( Read more... )

At the beginning of the week today was booked with four lessons. Then my 7am had a family thing followed by 9am coming down sick, and then it rained last night, but not much. My 10am sent me a text this morning saying he wasn't feeling well so I worked Tru-D and she did quite well. I've only worked her in the roundpen three or four times now and ( Read more... )

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The old fence is still halfway up on the East side. I can't call in the inspection until it's down ( Read more... )

After mucking the stalls and getting the horses back in afterwards I rode Kash for a little and then allowed Leslie to ride him. She was rather excited. She thought I was kidding her last month when I said that she might be able to ride him sometime after Christmas. I kid not about horses ( Read more... )