Prognosis confirmed, sinus infection. Solution? Antibiotics and being effectively banished to the house. Lots of sitting around, scanning, doing some vague scribbling on Shifting Times, and reading some books on horse training. I finished "The Bit and Reins" by Gerhard Kapitzke, which was quite good, but isn't about training, more the use of ( Read more... )

Hope everyone is having a good first day of the New Year ( Read more... )

Unfortunately there is some sad news to tell. Zel, my grandpa's first horse, was put down on the 29th of December. I want to say he was going to be 29 or 30 years old this year, which is quite good for a horse. It's sad, but he had no teeth and he's spent his last two years see-sawing back and forth with his weight because of it and winter was ( Read more... )