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Dapht is your conditioning partner’s, 18 month old dog who comes along on shorter conditioning rides with you and your friend.  He’s a slightly annoying 60 pound mutt who poops on the hay, doesn’t always get out of the way of your horse and you have (not quite on purpose) bowled him over allowed your […] more

I’m going to give you a hint about life.  No matter what you do in life, no matter how much you love doing something, at some point, there will be a sort of fatigue.  The excitement of what you once loved will escape you between the chores and the bills and the stark not-so-pretty reality […] more

My cousin Eleanor, budding artist extraordinaire, recently gave Martin (my walking treaddesk) a much needed face lift. Perhaps you remember the random white board that I grabbed from one of the lumber piles on the property?  it was the right length and width.  There wasn’t much beyond that when it came to my inclusion/exclusion criteria.  […] more

So I’m cheating.  This week it was a CC and I was the winner.  :). I learned several important lessons this evening.1. Just like it is ALWAYS neoplasia in small animal medicine, it is ALWAYS thrush in horses.2. The horse is always right. Over the last couple of weeks Farley has been NQR on her […] more

I have a problem. There’s a black widow in my Ariat terrains. I know this because like any good country girl, I don’t put my hands (or feet) in places that I can’t see.  And I saw it.  It’s fat shiny body.  Before it crawled back into the toe. This remainder of this post is […] more

On Friday for some random reason I didn’t have school, so I decided to go up to Auburn and do a bit of Tevis trail riding on the last section. The original plan was to go to the river crossing and back. I had a brief regret on the way to the trail head that […] more