I’ve been picture-free on the blog for a while, which is ironic since one of the reasons I started blogging was to share pictures.  Pictures were a way of distracting the reader from the poor writing skills of my blogging efforts!  I’m not posting pics because in all honesty, I’m taking less pics.  I’ve gotten […] more

How many of you horsey people out there have real friends that don’t also participate in horses? While I find that having horses and participating in horse sports lets me meet lots of people and be social, I have very few real friends. I just don’t have time unless they want to visit while mucking […] more

I’ve been stuggling through each day. My head is full of wool and I wonder if people think I’m a drug addict because I can’t enunciate my words and my eyes won’t focus. On weekends I sleep until noon and am in bed by 6pm the following evening. It’s sheer torture to get out of […] more

Culture came back negative, but vet still isn’t convinced it isn’t pigeon fever. As it has progressed, it looks less and less like pigeon fever and more like a bit combined with cellulitis, however I’m still taking precautions until a decision is made either way. Here’s a link to an information page about pigeon fever: […] more

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

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

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