I do a lot groundwork.  I always have – either because my horses were too crazy to ride, were recovering from an injury, or I couldn’t ride because of footing, lack of facilities, darkness etc.  In addition to riding, I also drive horses – ground work is an opportunity to tune up my body language, […] more

As usual when I have an unpleasant decision to make…we are going to talk about an interesting concept instead of some real life event! “But wait wait wait!” (My Dear Reader says) – “what unpleasant decision?????”  Fear not, it has nothing to do with Farley.  You see, we are experiencing a weather event here in […] more

In my stupor last night I realized I forgot to share with you some of the specific things that worked really well for me, that were “new”. – Winco’s self serve almond grinder was down…so for the first time I bought almond butter in a jar. It is really different!!!!!!  Very smooth and not as […] more

AAANNNNDDDD…..once again it’s after 8pm and my day is finally drawing to an end and I find myself not motivated to write my gold rush story. It’s not that I don’t have an AWESOME story – it’s more about really long days of school learning REALLY challenging skills that is sapping most of my energy […] more

Sorry folks, but what stands between you and the gold rush shuffle story is:– one OVH surgery with associated records, surgery reports– paying bills– Intro to repro class– comparative ethics class– scholarship essays So, it’s coming, but it might be a day or 2. Just in case you were following along on facebook, some reassurance […] more

Above: Picture of Matt and I when his family decided to do impromptu post-meal pictures If I had my chose my favorite holiday, it wouldn’t be Christmas – it would be Thanksgiving (followed by 4th of July as a close 2nd). A gathering of friends and family without expectations beyond good food and good company.  […] more

Most of you probably don’t know that I have a 50 this weekend. I’m trying to forget that I ever knew it.  I didn’t pre enter, leaving me lots of room to wiggle out of doing it if anything on my LONG list of “requirements” weren’t met.  No rain No rain in the days before […] more