March 3. Today’s ride was briefly delayed by realizing I had missed taking my meds for 2 days, so a perfect time to check BP and see how it was doing on its own. Hmph. Need to be more regular taking it, was the answer. OK. Tigger blocked Rags from coming to me and presented Read More…
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Ride 24: Short & Sweet in the East End (Tuesday, March 1 )
I didn’t have a lot of time Tuesday, due to Other Stuff, but managed a short work in hand for Tigger and a short ride for Rags. We worked over the walk poles, then went out in the Near Meadow and headed east past the construction yard to the highway, north along the curve of Read More…
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…
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 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…
Ride 16: The Other Half of West Grass
Last week was a cold, wet, muddy, colder, icy mess. This week was lovely, but the horses had a hoof trim in the middle of it. I was still trying to get all the caked mud off their coats and out of their hooves…once it dried neither horse felt I should be tugging at the Read More…
Back in the Saddle: Ninth Ride, Week Four (sorta)
Week three of Ragtime’s fitness plan started with some drama and was truncated by weather and a minor illness (mine, not his), so this was the first ride of Week Four, without having enough Week Three rides to progress to the next duration goal. But it was too lovely a day to worry about that, Read More…