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Aarene, because you asked so nicely, a post card for you (and all my other Dear Readers)     more

I’m taking a break from blogging. At least through next week. There’s 2 perfectly logical reasons I’m technically starting my honeymoon tomorrow anyways and really shouldn’t be on my computer (at least according to my husband). I also have to take this site down anyways to migrate the hosting over to a different provider (thus […] more

I just wrote a beautiful, detailed, funny post about OCD (the horse kind, not the reorganize your closet at 2am kind). Complete with pictures and beautiful diagrams. So why is this post titled “MerryLegs update” instead of “Osteochondrosis in horses”? Because my blog composition software crashed. Inexplictably. And it was gone, seconds after putting in […] more

I came across this picture of Farley and I doing a trot out during her first season.   Oh boy have we come a long ways! What I love best is how she has subtly positioned her body so that although she is trotting forward, every line of her body is pointing BACKWARDS. Yes, we’ve […] more

Meet Brimstone. A Standardbred of average temperment that mostly does his job in a mostly unspactacular way. His favorite gaits are trot and troanter. Why does Brimstone look uncharacteristically unhappy? Do you see what I see in the above photo? Ruh Roh. This is probably not going to end well. *wince* That definiately looks like […] more

In honor of yet another big storm hitting my area, I present to you the valuable lesson ML learned during the last storm. At morning *doping: Yes, ML was the ONLY horse on a 20 horse property *not* in a shelter. Never mind that I moved her to this paddock because it has one of […] more