Category: Daily Life
Normal, humdrum, ordinary life. Because it can be good, confusing, epic, wonderful, loving, and weird all at once.
Roll On, Columbia, Roll On
Wake up and make coffee, scroll Facebook while the household wakes around you and flinch at every other story, send some positive comments to friends to try to stem the tide of shit we’ve been buried in all week. Put on all the layers, hitch up the trailer and don’t think of all the Federal […]
Read MoreRiding into 2025
Personally, 2025 is starting of pretty dang ok, minus the immediate and biggest bummer being my friend and amazing riding partner breaking her arm and needed both a pin and a plate to set them. Ugh. She’s doing okay, but understandably not the most fun. Kade has been able to step up and keep Cody […]
Read MoreFire and Sun
To sum up how this week has been (and continues to be), there’s a powerful scene from a book I keep referencing. It’s from “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, by Max Brooks, at it’s face a zombie novel but much deeper once you get sucked into it. I haven’t read […]
Read MoreStepping forward, looking back
With one final day left between myself and returning to a desk bound day job, I find myself asking what else I need to accomplish to be able to focus on work with a lighter heart. I managed to get quite a bit done over the holiday haze, yet not quite enough. Do I spend […]
Read MoreFour Years Strong
This week it’s been four years since I went to see Tarma, handed over a decent sized check and hauled her home to my friend’s place and started inflicting my love and efforts and dreams upon her. While I was trying to sum up where we’re at for my dressage trainer at our last lesson, […]
Read MoreFork in the woods
With our endurance season ending a bit earlier than expected, my focus is shifting towards winter work. I was able to fit in a quick overnight trip with a friend from the Dry Side, and it helped me realize that my desire for more adventures might also be shifting from endurance, at least for a […]
Read MoreGear Checkpoint: Trois
Now that Tarma and I have 250 official endurance miles together (plus 100 LD miles), plus all the countless training miles behind those, it’s time for another gear check in! One of the things I love about endurance is that the futzing never ends, and if I’m not poking around in my trailer I’m playing […]
Read MoreSupplements
I do enjoy being an active AERC member for many reasons, chief among them the subscription to Endurance News. There was a recent interview with several successful endurance riders regarding horse nutrition, a topic I am currently struggling with. Puzzling out what Tarma needs in terms of nutrition to be a solid endurance horse for […]
Read MoreTarma’s Specialties
I realized in the shower yesterday I’ve never really written in depth about Tarma’s quirks, her likes and dislikes, what makes her tick and what hits her ick. With the spring crazies in full flag, it’s a good time to lunge before riding and capture some of what makes up a Tarma. A solid case […]
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On the loose 