On my way to meet my carpool on Wednesday, I realized that I left something at home. I had to go back and miss my carpool. For some reason, I decided to stop at the horses. I exercised Dolly for just a few minutes, and then I put her in the back and sprinkled just a small amount of hay around the pasture, to give her something to munch on during ( Read more... )

Last night was very healing for me. I stopped by the horses around 9:30 p.m. to give Diamond her nightly feed (Dolly, as you can imagine, only gets a little bit). It was misting (I can't really call it rain). Diamond takes a long time to eat, which is nice because I don't fear her getting "choke" like Dolly has had twice since I've had her. So ( Read more... )

My nieces and nephew came over with their grandparents to meet the horses.

Dolly gave them pony rides. First we just walked around near the pasture. Then we went down the road to the trail again. (There were no helmets involved because I only have one for my own head and it's way too big for their little heads... ugh.)


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The other day, several of us took the horses down the road and down a trail that I had heard about but hadn't yet explored. I had only recently even noticed it even though I have walked by it many times. A short distance in, the path splits. One way goes to a river, I hear (and have heard that bears have been spotted there during salmon season ( Read more... )

Diamond had her first vet appointment with us this morning. She was AWESOME! She didn't even flinch when she got her shots, and didn't care at all about the nasal vaccine. Wow. She snorted one time and then went back to eating hay. No big deal at all. She didn't get afraid of the vet or anything ( Read more... )

It was raining last night, so I tied up two of the doggy door flaps and tried to shoo Diamond out of the stall after deworming and feeding her last night. I needed to make sure she could go in and out of it (she's gone through with the flaps open just a couple of hesitant times). She WANTED to come out -- she was thirsty and the water was outside ( Read more... )

First of all, I didn't hear from "the hay company" and I wasn't going to drive out there with my parents-in-law's truck in the rain, so I went to a local feed store and bought 3 uncompressed rectangular bales. At 6 p.m. as I'm eating dinner with my parents, planning on using them for a homework assignment after dinner, I receive a phone call from ( Read more... )

Tonight, Tim and I went back to visit the horses. I wanted to exercise Dolly a little bit, because we hadn't had time earlier. Tim practiced a few of today's lessons with Diamond. I think it went very well ( Read more... )

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Before I talk about the lesson today (which went well), I want to vent some hay frustration. I found a great hay company that is located pretty far away. I don't have a truck so I am rather dependent on having the hay brought to me ( Read more... )