Category: Daily Life

  • Way back when the nights were still frosty, I hauled Tarma solo up to Tacoma and we more or less calmly puttered through a 15…

  • I love my trailer. I adore having it parked in front of my house, so I can tinker with it endlessly. I appreciate falling asleep…

  • The alternative title for today’s post is “WTF?” Was Mercury in Pluto or something? I’m so confused why today went so off the rails…and yet…

  • Today our chocolate bundle of perpetually damp chaos is a year old. Whew, we survived Benny’s puppyhood! He’s a fully formed dog that requires no…

  • With the truck in the shop and *checks calendar* only 16!!!! days until we leave for the John Wayne Cross State Ride, this is the…

  • My first foray back into endurance riding is this upcoming weekend, at Battle of the Flatlands, and we’re more or less ready. I still have…

  • Not every ride will be scenic and beautiful and easy. Not every ride will have excitement or breakthroughs or wonderful rights. Some rides you just…

  • I took a chance on the weather again and won, again. I’ve noticed that Tarma is much more agreeable if she’s had some turnout before…

  • When the sun shines, we ride…after working nine hour days so I could skip out early today. I loaded up kid, dog, and mare and…

  • It’s hard to keep an active young Lab puppy down…but trazodone will do it. Buddy was neutered on Thursday, at nine months old. His vet…