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One in the saddle, one on the ground
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Get moving
I’m starting to type this up as I wait by our bikes outside the local grocery store, while my son runs in with a $20…
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The weekend that wasn’t
After my last post on all my preparations for an upcoming trip to the mountains, turns out I never even hooked up the trailer. I…
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Nerves versus hope
I haven’t been camping with my horse since last year, and that one…still hurts. I’m scheduled to leave for Quinn Meadows early this Friday, to…
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Pride Ally
This is a hard post to write, as evidenced by the 12 (nope, now 14) different revisions I’ve made to it. This post was the…
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Always an adventure
My closest friends and I have worked out a routine this spring; I haul Tarma up to Adriane’s farm one Thursday a month for pony…
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Contrasts
Tarma chose this week to show me both the highs and lows of attempting to build a relationship with a horse, especially an opinionated one.…
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A ride, a fall and a bath
I know such glooms and blahs as I wrote about in my last post don’t lift easily, so I’m taking the steps to shake them…
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Doldrums
A few weeks ago my best friends and I had a breathtakingly beautiful ride up and down the lower portion of the Deschutes River. There…
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Come Along With Me
With an unexpected Friday off from work, I emailed Linda asking for another lesson. Luckily she was available on such short notice, though the lesson…
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gear checkpoint
Now that Tarma and I are starting to get in some serious rides, it’s a good time to do a tack and gear check point…
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friends and companions
Yesterday I loaded Tarma up (we’re down to under five minutes with plenty of side eye and resentful alfalfa snatching once aboard) and drove up…
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Trailers are tricky
I know throughout the years we’ve asked (or told) our horses to load into pretty much anything. From tiny “two horse” trailers to truck beds,…