With a big final coming up Friday, I have a feeling I probably won’t get to write as many blog posts here as I would like.  Wish me luck on my final (our “foundations” block ends this week) and if you need entertainment, check out these posts: Merri posts about an endurance horse that is […] more

Wednesday was Pony Day! In the new spirit of taking care of myself, I have declared any day that I get out of school before 3pm to be a pony day. This week, that meant that there was a singular pony day, and I looked forward to it all week. Isn’t it’s amazing how a […] more

I was sitting in class today, day dreaming (as usual) about endurance, blogs, puppies. I’ve been toying with the idea of doing some clicker training with Farley.  Specifically, the stand.  The one issue that continues to frusterate the hell out of me is that she won’t consistently stand.  MOST of the time she does, but […] more

Remember this post here?   During my foundation post, I talked about not being a victim and accepting my failures as a training and becoming better.  If you are interested on where I got the concept of “playing the victim”, read this article here. It also inspired an article over on Tess’s blog.  more

Dear human who buys my hay, Did you know that it is raining? Right now.  And you seem to have forgotten something.  Like a blanket, or a shelter, or a nice covered barn.  Do you really expect me to use my copious amounts of fat and a few pitiful trees to shelter me from the […] more

On Monday we had the first rain of the season. This does not bode well for my conditioning this fall.  As I’ve probably mentioned a hundred times, where I live in California, the jet stream changes approximately every 3 months.  The weather we have in the first 2 weeks of the “new” jet stream at […] more