This journal is about animals and dreams and that explains why I chose that one instead of my regular Benzozw4. The countdown is there, 15 months before Yves stops the job he has learned to loathe. At the same time, I will start a sabbatical year. We have some plans but life has taught us that nothing ever happens as foretold. So instead of plans ( Read more... )

I look at the lack of snow and I wonder if we will have the sap season before time. My father-in-law is set on a starting point like an olympic athlete, ready for the triathlon: run to gather the sap, boil to get the syrup, boil even more for the toffee, he's a pro ( Read more... )

After calling the guy by any pssible French name (when it comes from the heart, it goes out in French, just ask my students!) I decided that it would be stupid to not connect with him because he is the only who officially save donkeys in QC so I fixed things like a diplomate. Ok, ok, some people might have never seen me being a diplomate but it ( Read more... )

I'm slowly gathering info from the situation of rescue centers and horse slaughters in Canada.

So I learned this:

• Donkeys can't be killed for human consumption but in Spain and Portugal.
• Though donkeys are bought by meat buyers, they probably end in dog food or something like that.
• Out of three Canadian slaughters, two are in QC and making more and ( Read more... )

Genes: if a horse is TOto, is he considered homozygote? If so, that means that some paint homozygotes could give other colors than tobiano, couldn't they?

Did you see the grey appaloosa on the internet? ( I can't link you because I'm at work and I don't have access to it here) Will he remain this color? I suppose so if someone paid more than 1000$ ( Read more... )

Monday night i practiced circles of canter and gallop and the transitions that come with every change of pace. it was not easy I was on Skip which means I had to work hard to not let him break to a trot when I was looking for a smooth canter. I was working on placing his head nicely at canter and that old guy is getting grumpy, so he did a lil ( Read more... )

I'm just back of my riding lesson.

Next week will be my last lesson for a while. I stop to heal my shoulders and this time I'm serious since I do physiotherapy with a sport specialist plus my lil exercises twice a day. I also mentioned to Chantal, my trainer, that I would probably continue with another trainer. I was very sad to say so but I'm like ( Read more... )

Golden has been at rest for months because Chantal can't find a solution about his legs conditions, she tried a few things but couldn't find a cure yet. So last night the subject was about to go through a haunted indoor ring and teach our horses to trust us and the monsters. So I asked Chantal if I could take Golden since it meant almost no trot ( Read more... )

Because of my lil cranberry problem, I didn't go to my class last Monday but Thursday which meant to have my trainer's daughter, 16, giving the course. It interesting we spend the whole hour on 'passing the flag'. It is simple: one rides in a sense and the other the other way. We started trotting, switched sides and hands, then cantering. It was ( Read more... )

So was my lesson last night. I rode Étoile who has turned 4 recently. Chantal asked me if I had done 'capelli' -or caprelli- and it was a big no, so I found out what it was. It was a 'parcours ( Read more... )