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Caven in a nutshell.

Caven is such a scaredy-pants, it's unbelievable. Sure, horses are flight animals, it's their basic instinct to run from danger. It's just that Caven takes that term a tad too seriously for my liking. I mean, he spooks at nearly everything, his own shadow included ( Read more... )

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Nothing soothes my soul more than the unmistakable sound and steady rhythm of hoof beats on hard ground. There is an easiness and carefreeness to the movement of a slowly walking horse that is perfectly captured in the rhythmic sound the horse’s hooves are making every time they touch down on asphalt. It’s a completely relaxing flow of clack, clack ( Read more... )

I never know how to refer to Grenny whenever he's somehow brought up in a conversation. Like when talking to people who don't know that Caven is not my first horse. I always try to avoid having to refer to him in any way, because whatever I say comes out clumsily and feels inappropriate to me. I'm not comfortable with calling Grenny "first horse ( Read more... )

I'm currently staying in a hotel. In my home town. With my home practically down the fucking street. It's one messed up situation. All because we're having some renovations done at our place and the craftsmen currently left it in a state we simply cannot live in ( Read more... )

I'm lucky enough to have grown up in two homes. One is here, my parent's place, and my other home has always been in the mountains, down in the Allgäu Alps, at my grandfather's place ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to point this out for a while now. Have you noticed how the initials of the names of the two horses in my life are G and C? No? Because I have ( Read more... )

Today was a good day. Caven had fun, I filmed him having fun, and we basically just enjoyed our break. We've been training this whole week and we'll continue tomorrow, but today was just leisure ( Read more... )

I grew really fond of Gackt's song ARROW. But I haven't listened to it since Grenny died. I just couldn't, and I still can't. It's too painful. For some reason I came to associate that song with Grenny, probably because I used to listen to it all the time on my way to the barn and then on my way back home, after an adventurous and joy filled ride ( Read more... )