Month: November 2012

What Didn’t Happen

Brian and I seem to have developed a not particularly wonderful habit of having riding accidents in the fall. It started the year we got Bear – 2010. I had a horrible crash on Halloween. Then Brian came off hard our very next ride. I suffered a concussion and Brian’s shoulder bothered him for months.… Read more »

New Saddle!

Not for me.  For Robin.  But I think I’m just as excited about it as she is. Today the farrier was coming, so Robin went out early and I met her at the barn when I got off work.  Turns out that only 1 horse needed a trim.  The other twenty or so were just… Read more »

Fresh

We’ve been out of town for a few days, which means none of our horses have been ridden. Sometimes when we have our pick of who to ride and we’re not in any sort of pattern, it can be hard to decide. Today I settled on Steen and Brian decided to ride Bear. Seen’s leg… Read more »

Back Home

We had a nice, short trip to visit my parents for Thanksgiving.  We always have fun there, but it always feels really nice to get back home. And home includes riding Bear.  I love how familiar he is to me.  I was tired and just wanted to ride around.  I didn’t do any groundwork, I… Read more »

The Birthday Gets Bigger

I bought my current saddle about a year and a half ago, and while there are quite a few things I do love about it, there are also a number of things I don’t love. For one thing, it’s a trail saddle and as much as I try to situate the fenders so they are… Read more »

Little Ones

It’s apparently been our week to do new things with the horses. Today our friend Adele brought her two sons out to meet Steen and Bear. Ben had been out before, several years ago, back when he was tiny and Steen was rather a less steady creature. Now he’s quite a big bigger and more… Read more »

Our First Haul

Today we were invited to trailer with Cathi and her daughters and some other friends over to some local trails. This is the sort of thing we daydream about doing all the time but never have, lacking our own truck and trailer and also not knowing where to go around here. When I lived in… Read more »

New Trails

On Friday we got an invitation to go ride at some nice trails just north of us.  We had never trailered our horses anywhere, so we were quite excited to see how they would do. We arrived at the barn early to make sure everything was ready.  We ended up being so early that we… Read more »