IRL – January 2014

These “In Real Life” posts are designed to show how a conditioning program is being applied “real life”. It’s one thing to talk about the ideal program – it’s quite another thing to see how an actual person is applying it real life horse.  Maybe you are a new rider that is trying to find […] more

Exhaustion thoughts

I’m not a fan of posts where I whine about how tired I am.  Or how busy I’ve been.  I feel like if I’m here writing than I should buck up and give you something to make the time you spend reading my blog worth something. But I AM tired. and exhausted. and a bit […] more

5 year anniversary gift – new URL

You may have noticed that the blog looks a little bit different and you were directed to a new URL (www.bootsandsaddles4mel.com/blog). I’ve finally gotten around to doing what I’ve meant to do for years – get my blog off of blogger and onto the my main webpage. Increasing problems with blogger (such as the search […] more

Selfie

Was planning on writing a cute little story about how me and Farley went on a lovely little ride this afternoon since it would take too much brain power to write about Tig and a very interesting Farley/Tig ponying ride earlier this week.  I even took selfies of us prior to ride.  See how thrilled […] more

I nominate last week as "Best Week Ever"

I’m going to tell you about my AWESOME week. Even though very little of it has to do with horses, or endurance. As you may know (or guessed) I tend to keep this blog specific to a small portion of my life.  This isn’t a diary or a journal or a “tell all” or a […] more

Tig recap

It’s that time!!!!!  My favorite time…..where I look at goals, progress and redefine where we are going :). First off, I want to recap the lessons learned!   Tig has taught me that….I’m braver than I think. I cannot reiterate enough that I’m NOT a particular brave or courageous rider. But yet, like Farley did before […] more

Tig canters!

Saturday Aurora agreed to babysit me and Tig on an “appropriate mount” and I headed out to Oroville for a meet up. This ride represented the end of 2 weeks of rides on Tig, and our first “big” trailering out ride. After loading up gear I had 30 minutes to load Tig.  PLENTY of time. And…she […] more

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