Tag: training

  • Through a combination of Herculean effort and light sleeping, I can officially declare it’s been one week since Benny’s last accident in the house, and…

  • Sometimes the universe tosses signs your way that say clearly “Do not do the thing.” Sometimes you gotta give the universe the middle finger, do…

  • My friends and I rode together again this weekend, twice, after the ponies received their monthly pedicure. We also mock camped in my friends yard,…

  • It feels odd to have such a good day, a few days after my grandpa passed at home. I have no real words to encompass…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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…