Yay, a blog hop from That Red Mare! 1. Mares or Geldings? Why? Mares. I love the attitude and the partnership and the challenge. I have a thing for difficult mares. 2. Green-broke or Fully Broke? At this point in … Continue reading →
It’s finally starting to feel like fall around here. The sun is setting when there are other people at the barn and I haven’t even gotten on the pony yet, I’m contemplating pulling out thermal layers and fleece leggings, and … Continue reading →
When I first started Confetti on a bale bag back in January, I noted that she went through a bale in about five days. Sigh, I thought, maybe it will get better? She used to get 1 flake twice a … Continue reading →
There’s a monster in the woods, she said. Left leg, right rein. No there is not. Glance left, pause, stare left. No, there definitely is not. There’s something in the woods and it does not belong. Sidepass, sidepass, no spinning, … Continue reading →
Confetti moved into her large paddock over Labor Day 2013, two years back. The neighbors were good. I eventually negotiated for both a feed room and a tack room. She had an empty small paddock on one stall and a … Continue reading →
I don’t think of myself as particularly fit. I ride four days a week, mostly walk/trot. I don’t canter very often: partly because I’m not especially great at cantering, partly because I don’t have Fetti very fit for cantering. (These … Continue reading →
I have never done much of anything for Halloween. The idea of Confetti as a real-life My Little Pony has been bouncing in my head for a while, though, and with Halloween on a Saturday this year… We went really … Continue reading →
I mentioned a week or two back that I was frustrated with Blogger’s mobile app and the constant crashing when adding photos from my phone. I tried really hard to find a substitute, and there genuinely does not appear to be … Continue reading →
We’re now three weeks post-Quicksilver and, for various reasons, definitely at the end of our ride season for the year. Fetti’s winter coat is pretty solidly in. I look at her back and I want to cry. There have been … Continue reading →
The silence around here is not due to a lack of posts being written: I am, for once, actually drafting things, taking photos, doing occasional blog-worthy stuff. My phone, the Blogger app, and my photos are not playing nice together. … Continue reading →