I don't think I have many readers here but, just in case I wanted to let you know that I have decided to incorporate this blog into the "general" life blog I keep.  I have been keeping two separate ones for a long time and for ease sake have decided to just combine it all into one.

I hope you will all continue to follow me over at fiesta831 as I plan to add ( Read more... )

I did not go to the MS Ride today.  The pain in my low back from the infection being in my kidneys was pretty bad so I decided to stay home.  I stayed in my bed until 11 which is pretty unusual for me as it is rare I am in bed past 6.  Anyway I spent the rest of the day laying low and just trying to get to feeling better.  By the afternoon I was ( Read more... )

Saturday is the MS Equestrians for a Cure Trail Ride.  I've known about this ride for months.  I've been planning on going on this ride for months.  I have a little bit of nervousness about it.  Tucker loses confidence in my leadership around a lot of other horses.  4-5 is great.....more than that is a challenge, he can go very RB and get ( Read more... )

I stayed home from work with a migraine today which upset me because I was in enormous pain, I had to use a PTO day and most importantly Tuesday afternoons are one of my play days.  I always try to play on Tuesday after work because it is usually the one night I don't have anything else going on ( Read more... )

I didn't get to play for as long as I planned today because a thunderstorm rolled through and forced me inside.  I had intended to work in on sideways in the saddle and that was cut out of the session completely.  We did work on turning while staying in the box though.  We have four landscape timbers on the ground in a square and turning inside of ( Read more... )

I dried the chicken out AGAIN.  I have a bad habit of putting the food in the oven then going out to ride and losing track of time, hence cooking the food too long and drying it out ( Read more... )

Tucker and I met Liz and Eli at the park after work today to take trail ride number 10 ( Read more... )

My non-horse blog post and Linda Parelli's blog post where quite appropriate for one another today.

I really like this idea of being a better leader for your horse because you are in the moment, you are not focusing on what could happen but instead on what is happening.  Not only focusing on it but dealing with it appropriately.  She challenged at ( Read more... )

I said I was too tired and worn out to go out and play today, but I did anyway.  I just learned way too much yesterday and was way too excited not to get out there.  I'm glad I did because it was a fun session ( Read more... )

I had a great lesson yesterday with Parelli Instructor Linda Algire.  I always learn so much and it is hard to know where to begin to write it all down.

( A Great Lesson & The Pictures )