Sadie’s Feet

That thing I said about Sadie?  That her feet are always so neat and she is always so nice about lifting up her feet?  Forget it.

Picking out Feet

I need help with this one — I mean these four. 
When I was riding  Wilco the Friesian, feet-cleaning was the absolute worst part and the hind legs were the worst of the worst.  I’d somehow manage to cajole him into lifting his foot for me and then, with pick in hand, I’d burrow and delve [...]

Today’s Tidbits

1.  Keep that leg back and relaxed at the same time.  When my leg is tight, then my toes point out. 
 2. Be aware of my body.
3.  Headlights (and we all have two on our chests, boys and girls) point in the same direction that the horse is going.  They do no good shining out into [...]

Is Snobbiness a Problem?

Since I’ve come late to this horse world, I honestly don’t know much about what is and is not Top Drawer, nor what is Bottom Drawer as defined by the Top.  But I’m begining to get an inkling that there’s lots o’snobbiness out there.
Not that I’m without snobbiness.  Why, even as a child, I turned up [...]

The Five Doors of the Horse

Sounds like a cross between the Doors of Perception by Huxley or Five Ringsby Musashi.  It’s not.
The horse, according to my teacher, has five doors.  One door lets the horse go forward and another one lets it go back.  The third door lets the horse go to the right (or left) and the fourth door [...]

Cats on YouTube: Like I Need Another Obsession

I don’t understand how I get interested in this stuff or how I get so paralyzed by it, but did you know that you can watch videos of kittens on YouTube? My favorites so far are “Moos plays with feather” because it is so amazing how the Django music works perfectly at moments with the [...]

Kitten Rescue Among Other Things

Yesterday’s free ride was an opportunity to ride darlin’ Sadie of the Blue Blue Eyes and also an opportunity to go over some of those jump-pole things except on the ground. Just poles, right? Right. OK. It was yet another thing that made me nervous on Stalker the other night, when I had my smallish [...]

The Cult Stallion and the Domestication of the Horse

One of my favorite books on horses is The Nature of Horses by Stephen Budiansky.  Budiansky is a science writer who has also written about our favorite domestic creatures, science, and history.
According to Budiansky’s research and writing, the pivitol moments in the horse/human connection occured about 6,000 years ago, shortly after their fossil remains (and [...]

GetThemBlogging.com

My pal Dawn has a new business enterprise that you might want to take a look at.  It’s a way to connect people who want free stuff with PR people who need folks to try out their new stuff.  Dawn’s site, GetThemBlogging.com explains exactly what the deal is and why you shouldn’t worry about getting [...]

Fear This

Had another breakdown in my lesson tonight, but it was small and manageable. Stalker was full of beans since he’d had no turnout and was pawing the floor with his left front hoof as I groomed him and tacked him up.  So that made me tense and Leah could really tell.  Leah could tell exactly [...]