I'm already (somewhat) bilingual, but my 5 year-old has had a consistent interest in learning Russian. I don't know if it is great or terrible that one of his favorite movies is The Hunt for Red October and two of his favorite songs are by The Red Army Choir ( Read more... )

Well hello everyone! Sorry I have not been on here in forever! I really need to get this group up and running again! I miss everyone! How are all of you? I hope all of your horses and horse friends are doing well! I will be working on this page soon, hopefully I can get it back to the awesome group it use to be!

Lake Erie College is looking for donations of horse bits to help our Competition horses [the ones that go to shows] get much needed medical care. This includes Chiropractor, Massage, and other necessary therapy to ensure our horses stay sound. These horses are all very old [the youngest is 12] and most have had very intense younger [show or ( Read more... )

I don't know if any of you are interested, but I'm totally hooked on this game.  And I'm sure some of you are hooked as well.  It starts out kind of slow, but it picks up pretty quickly.  Click on the link below to join!

http://www.howrse.com/?parrain=RavenCrest
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Hi everyone! After years of taking lessons being my only means of riding, I am starting a lease on a horse! Needless to say I am very excited. She is gorgeous, willing and relaxed--her name is Libby. Libby is a Tennessee Walker, who is a trail/pleasure horse ( Read more... )

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...for our horses. Today we had a temperature of 15* with a wind chill of about 7. It was snowing hard, and only going to get worse. Even so, I headed out to the barn. First, I piled on every scrap of clothing I own. Well, almost. By they end I had five layers on top, and a pair of tights under my breeches. If I had put on any more clothes I wouldn ( Read more... )

The other day I actually managed to ride Titan. For those of you who may have forgotten (I know it's been a long time), Titan has taken to rearing in crossties. He'll rear up, sit down, and as soon as we get the crossties off, wander away. After such an incident he's so wound up and sore from crashing around on the cement floor that it's hard to do ( Read more... )

Hello everyone! I apologize for dropping off the face of the Earth for a while there. We got a filter that blocked Livejournal. Now at long last the one on my brother's computer is broken, so I can post again, at least for the time being. Mom's trying out a filter that will let her decide what it should block. So if that works out I'll be able to ( Read more... )

I have permission from publisher Sunstone Press to distribute an excerpt from an unusual crossover novel by Texas surgeon Barbara Bergin. "Endings" mixes Bergin's own worlds of medicine, horses, and motherhood with a strong romantic core ( Read more... )