Category: On the loose

  • Benny is now six months old, halfway to a year, and it’s been a year since the Very Best Dog slipped away from us. Benny…

  • On some days Tarma is sweet and smart and relatively chill, riding out on the buckle and easy. Today she had a different feeling, so…

  • Yesterday I joined several other OET (Oregon Equestrian Trails) members in some vigerous leaf raking, followed by an excellent but too quick solo trail ride.…

  • It’s been a bit of a mixed week in the Morse household. I came back from my “No Responsibilities Mom Trip” to the hot springs…

  • At long last, I was able to join the wonderful group of folks my trainer gathers around for the last horse camping trip of the…

  • I chickened out of riding Friday and Saturday due to the first soaking rain of the season rolling in. The big, welcome storm showing itself…

  • Today was off to a questionable start, though it ended wonderfully enough. There was a loose horse outside Tarma’s fence when I hiked out to…

  • First off, my mantra for the weekend was “Thank you Sarah”, as this trip wouldn’t have been possible without her along. She was also totally…

  • I’m writing this particular dispatch from my new reclining camp chair (snapped up from Costco), three quarters of the way through a can of 14…

  • The husband is home from his vacation now, so I seized the remaining day light, left him to watch the kid not watching the puppy,…