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…
Month: February 2022
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…
A Long Way to Owl Pavilion: There And Back Again
Admittedly, nothing on 80 acres is really that far from anything else. But thanks to the terrain and vegetation, some things *feel* like the far end of everything. Used to be more that way, when no one lived on the property to the west and all the neighbors there were bovine (the farmer occasionally brought 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 20: Reverse Circumnavigation of the East Grass: No Deer, No Drama
It was a day of seconds and one first, but we’ll take it in order. A day of perfect weather for a ride, whether long or short (this was short, under a half hour, more like 20 minutes, but somewhat strenuous for the rider.) Rags is improving steadily at accepting both halter and bridle and 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…
Ride 18: Reverse Circumnavigation of the West Grass
Today began with the Wells Solar team installing solar panels on the house roof. It’s clear they know what they’re doing, just as it was year before last when they installed panels on the barn. No wasted movement, no wasted time. We stayed out of their way. Tigger spooked, of course, when the first one Read More…
Ride 17: Circumnavigation of the West Grass + First Trot
Rags and I had a fine ride this afternoon. It was clear, cool, breezy, and he was in the mood to show off his stuff, I think. While riding around in the north horse lot to give R- time to get to the gate into the Near Meadow, Rags indicated he wanted to speed up. Read More…