My Good Deed For the Year

It’s about Gabby because the time has come to talk about cabbages, kings, and her future.
On one hand, Gabby was not the best idea in the world for me. I made my decision to buy her before I’d seen her or knew much of anything about her (and I’m not an experienced horse person so [...]

Mountain Ride

The week before last, I was out of town on a work assignment (and was it tough!  I learned a big huge bunch about some stuff and it’s no exaggeration to say that I’m grateful for the opportunity  and that I hope to repeat it). I had three free-time highlights and the first was a serendipitous [...]

Time to get back to life

On Thursday, I delivered some meat out to the barn owners and yesterday, I gave some to a barn friend.  It’s good meat; grass-fed rather than grain-stuffed, low in fat, the product of cattle who have lived like cattle should.  But as we have discovered, the meat is just too . . . too darn [...]

sorrow . . .wordless . . .

My barn lost a good friend.  One of the young riders died in a car accident over the weekend.  She was a senior in high school, 17 years old, and started taking lessons when she was eight.  Her younger sister is very involved in 4H and her family boarded a young gelding at the barn.
I went [...]