28 months ago the best horse I'll ever own broke his leg ( Read more... )

Front Desk Reception ( Read more... )

It seems I just keep attracting the melodramatic BS I hate so much. Go me. I suck. Nah - mostly, I'm minorly irked and somewhat amused (Guess waht guys - I'm IMPORTANT! I'm SPECIAL! I can singlehandedly destroy reputations! Well, or something.). Think you guys all know about the whole marion thing... We were finally back to where could at ( Read more... )

One Year ago today,

One year and a very few hours ago,

I, shaking, tentatively climbed onto Poly's back for the first time.

At the end, when we untacked, he had this "What the heck kind of workout was that?" look on his face:


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"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow ( Read more... )

So apparently G et al weren't happy with the website I did last spring for the horse sale. But naturally, they can't tell me that. I find out yesterday that LK is doing the one for 2007 for them. And I only find out because, when they finally get into the webhosting account I set up for the barn, they worried that by changing the password they'd ( Read more... )

Sad because it's over, and I'm home again, and I don't want to be. I'm going to miss the 8 border collies, 2 guard dogs, SHEEP!!!, and Kathy's 3yo warmblood AND the lessons AND...just...it was so very nice...and wonderful ( Read more... )

So today started out decent - watered rams, fed ewes grain, then we moved jumps to their winter shelter. Then Kathy taught two lessons so I went up to the arena with her....and the first horse she taught was a paint, recently bought by the lady (who rides walking horses, so keeps calling hunter her "trotter" lol..because he trots.)... and it turns ( Read more... )

So today started with coyotes, feeding sheep (I like sheep), visiting with the border collies, tripping over a stick (go me) and unloading 90ish bales of hay. Good fun. I enjoyed it ( Read more... )

So today was interesting. First, I got an introduction to sheep. Sheep are neat. Sheep are cool. Border Collies are even cooler ( Read more... )