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Given my recent binge of horsey forums and vids, I wanted to post this video:

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I would love to have mad Parelli skills like that, not to mention such a huuuge arena! (I'll take the warm climate too!) And I have to say, I like Night Wish as background music...

Sunshine. Snow. Cheeky curly pony...

Bliss.

My Horse lost weight!!!The thyroxin is doing him a world of good ( Read more... )

Sage is definitely leaving his teenagery mood. He seems calm and peaceful the past few visits, and like he knows his role and his place in the world. He seems happy when I ride him and proud of himself, and he and Thea have been much more accepting of being separated ( Read more... )

Rode Sage in the rain for a few minutes today, just had to try my saddle now that I have shims and the stirrups are fixed! It's not as comfortable with the shims in it...they poke into my seatbones a bit. But the stirrup length is great now!! And it was SO NICE to have stirrups ( Read more... )

I talked to a friend just the other day ( Read more... )

I wrote the following in response to buymeaclue's post over on horsemanship about the methods we use to train / prepare our horses (natural horsemanship, clicker training, groundwork, classical methods) and if we feel its been a successful approach or not, and what our goals are for the future:

( my long response )

Thea cracks me up...

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The end result:


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Tried my barefoot again last night, rode for just a few minutes, but with the pommel piece in. WOW!! What a HUUUGE difference having the pommel piece made!! That, and positioning it further forward than I thought it could possibly be, which turned out to be just right.

( Barefoot experience yesterday )