Ride 23: After the Rain & Cold, A Good Ride

Sunday was clear and cold, but the body (mine) was not in shape to ride.  Today, Monday, was even prettier and somewhat warmer.  Rags had acquired some mud from the wet days (not wet enough to provide significant moisture but enough that a horse eager to scratch off loosening winter coat could get muddy areas.)  Read More…

Sunlight

The power came back on after awhile–it had been out all over town and beyond town to the warning lights at the next road up (outside town) so it was pretty easy to tell when it came back on.   According to our power maintenance company (responsible for the powerlines, not any production) we had several Read More…

Advisory: Power’s Out

Don’t worry.  We’re on battery now, turning off computers, phones, lights, etc in hopes of keeping the (propane) furnace going–it needs electricity to light, and for the fan to circulate.  We have warm clothes, and we survived a longer sunless stretch last year.  Dunno the source of the problem; don’t care; just want to get Read More…

Winter Again

Cold, gray, windy, with frozen precip on the way.   We’re kinda busy with keeping things that mustn’t freeze unfrozen, checking on the horses, checking on pipes, and (in my case) keeping hot food ready when we need it.  Just came in from a check in the barn, scooping horse poop, putting out another flake of Read More…

Ride 21: Validation

As some of you will remember from posts on Facebook (when I could still get there)…the concussion I had in 2018 came from being bucked off by Mocha, a mare I had recently bought but not yet ridden (except that first brief ride with her former owner there)  on the day she tossed me head Read More…

Ride 19: When a Calm Horse Spooks Hard

An interesting ride.   Instructive in multiple ways.   The goal today was to ride around the East Grass, not right on the perimeter but in clear sight of all of it, for Rags’  awareness of place and routes.  To start with, mounting went much better except for one little glitch (mine.)   I was able to mount Read More…