Yearly Archives: 2010
A question of ethics
| December 1, 2010 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
A horse in your boarding stable has chest and belly abscesses that is indicative of pigeon fever. The vet is called and the abscess treated, in the meantime you are told to treat it like it is pigeon fever. Several months ago a boarder let you know that a different local boarder stable was having […] more
Website Preview
| November 30, 2010 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
The next major update to my website is going to be a resource list for endurance riders on potential conditioning locations. I will write up reports on all the locations I regular condition at (mostly central California), and I’m open to accepting writeups from other riders in other states. Before I get too far into […] more
Lessons remembered and learned
| November 29, 2010 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
It’s amazing how many disasters can be averted if I learn from past mistakes. Xmas 2008 Minx colicked for the first time. It was a cold snap, she had been out of work for a couple of days, and voila! – I had a bill for treatment of an impaction colic. Over the Thanksgiving holiday […] more
Happy Anniversary and in which Mel (kinda) falls off
| November 25, 2010 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
Yesterday was a very special day for me and Farley – our anniversary date. Three years ago, on the day before Thanksgiving I drove a trailer into the bay area to pick up a fuzzy little brown horse as my backup endurance horse, and my arena plaything. I hadn’t spent nearly as much money as […] more
Made in America! Response
| November 22, 2010 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
As I don’t have commenting ability here at work, here is the continuation of the Made in America! Post in response to comments. First off – I want to make this clear: I am NOT doing this to prove a point about any humanitarian conditions. Period. To be honest, I don’t care enough about that […] more
Made in America!
| November 21, 2010 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
I think I’m going to try an experiment for the next year. I think I’m going to try to buy only made in America. In the past the most important thing has been my bottom line, but now I’m realizing that maybe the most important thing is not necessarily to save every penny I can. […] more
Revelations
| November 19, 2010 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
As I start approaching jumping seriously, I’m reminded why I LOVE learning new things – it gives me all sorts of insight into things I already do! Not to mention that if as a self-proclaimed adrenaline junkie, learning to jump fulfills that “rush need” in my life, than it’s a rather healthy way to do […] more
