I’m So Angry (at myself) and Sore

December 22, 2023Posted inFancy
I’m in a horse development program something like Karate.  It’s called Parelli Levels Program.  We are given tasks to do in four different areas:  Finesse, Free Style, On-Line and Liberty and we get different color ropes when we pass a Level.  I’m working on getting my black rope with Fancy.  It’s the highest level for a non professional.   I have passed L4 Finesse with Fancy. Because I am a self confessed bragger, I offer you the video of Fancy and my Level Four Finesse “Swan Lake” audition: https://youtu.be/_Luz9CkYjO4?si=bSMFRwgk-yhLht9r Hint,…

Fancy Heat Chuckles and More

December 7, 2023Posted inFancy
Most non horse people don’t know what HEAT is.  Mare owners know what that word means.  It means Fancy’s body wants a Stallion! (Mare cycles generally last 21 days with them expressing signs of heat for 4-7 days. Estrus is expressed outwardly by; raising the tail, frequent urination, “winking” or eversion of the vulva, squealing, and posturing.) The wetness on her legs was from her “heat”.  Oh Lordy.  I feel a chuckle coming. I’m riding in a lesson taught by great trainer, Erin Patterson. Fancy doesn’t want to obey my body…

AFIB after Ablation

November 15, 2023Posted inA-fib
March 2023, AFIB ablation operation done.  Overnight hospital stay and I ate full hospital food menu for two days.   Sadly, narcotic medicine is tough on releasing food from gut.  I became painfully constipated. Days later, I was at a performance event and was suffering.  I left at ntermission to go home and took 5 times the amount of constipation medication recommended.  I wanted to get that food out of my body. Whoops!  I became a bathroom prisoner.  Next stage of hell was unsuccessful exits from bed.  It was so…

Doug and Miss T, New Boarders

August 21, 2023Posted inMiss T and Doug
Updates! Tenor is a 98% unicorn. In late July, my riding partner, Sharon and I went on trail-ride at a park. We were in some high bushes around us. The bushes moved, Tenor spun so fast, I only knew I was falling off. He did a 180 and I did a 90. I can’t mount him from the ground, so (after we found my missing boot), we walked and discovered a trucked parked next to a lake near enough that I could walk there. I was dead on my feet.…

Just a Trailride! Dog attack; Riders Bucked Off; Horse Runaways (Not Tenor, Sonny, Susan or Sharon)

February 19, 2023Posted inMissouri Fox Trotter, Sonny, Tenor
Just a day in the park trail ride and Missouri Fox Trotters rescued their fellow fox trotters. Many hero’s appeared today during a drama at James A Reed Wild life Park in Lee’s Summit.Sonny will be nominated for Hall of Fame. Many hero humans were involved without their names being recorded. Sonny, Sharon, Tenor and I went on a trail ride today  at James A. Reed Wildlife Park.  We rode a total distance of 1.3 miles.  Trail riders might sneer at this minuscule miles, but Hero Sonny was born and…

Who Rang my Doorbell at 10:30 PM?

August 24, 2022Posted inMiscellaneous
Who could possibly ring my doorbell at 10:30 PM?  I had to put on an item of clothing so I could be decent when answering the door. Were my horses loose?  Did they get out of their pasture.? I tuned on lights, turned off the alarm and opened the front door.  There was a county patrolman standing at my front door.  I exclaimed.  I immediately assumed I had hit the fall button or emergency button on my new Apple Watch.  I tried apologizing for my error. The patrolman asked me…