Wondrous Blogger

June 2, 2011Posted inMiscellaneous
I decided that I need to take beautiful pictures with a real camera to be a most wonderful blogger.  My favorite blogger is Pioneer Woman.  She and her cowboy husband and cowboy children run a big cattle ranch in Oklahoma.  Her blogs are filled with amazing detailed pictures with imense number of pictules or whatever they are called. I've been spoiled by my iPhone the last number of many years.  My trusty digital cameras have been sitting and eating dust.  Let's bring at least one of them back from the dead!…

Hook, Line and…

May 1, 2011Posted inNOVA
Relax, only the" line" applies and it turned out good.  I'm alive to write the story! The iPhone "Weather" application said it was going to rain at noon and keep on raining today.  I called my riding buddy.  "She-who-will-remain-nameless" assured me that it would not rain and riding today will be really fun. Why I believed her, I will never know.  I had HOPE! I rode Nova and "She-who-will-remain-nameless" rode Velvet.  We were zipping along coming upon a small lake.  Before you could cook a goose, up came two geese from…

Big Pipe Dream Plan

April 24, 2011Posted inMiscellaneous
The original plan was to magically write a book this past winter, magically get it published and to be paperback bound in time for the Missouri Fox Trotter World Celebration.  It would also hit the shelves and earn me a million dollars, force me to retire,  write more books, build a million dollar indoor arena and to hire Tony and Jenny Vaught to be my personal horse trainers. I told you that the book started taking over and demanding to write its self. Then I learned that it actually takes time…

Powder’s Progress

April 24, 2011Posted inPowder
 Powder is with Tony and Jenny Vaught for her start. (Both Tony and Jenny took two Young Horse Development clinics with Pat Parelli and Ronnie Willis before they had to drop out of the program.) And you know that my horses are gaited. Gait is forever on a gaited horse owner’s mind. Tony said he had been riding Powder about a week or so.  I gulped and thought, here’s the moment to ask…. "How’s her gait?" I said. Tony didn’t answer for a few seconds. I thought he might say…

Screaming with my Reins

March 30, 2011Posted inMiscellaneous
I have a secreat reason which I won't go into right now because its a fault on my part, on why I want to ride with Romal Reins. The public reason to want to ride with Romal Reins is:  Romal reins means you are riding a finished saddle horse.  I like it when Nova and I look like a finished saddle horse!  Romal reins is a sign of being a very accomplished horseman with a finished saddle horse.  Have I said Finished Saddle Horse too many times in this paragraph? A Romal (pronounced…

BFO DOG WALK!

March 16, 2011Posted inNOVA
BFO = Blinding Flash of the Obvious.  We horse people have them every now and then. That's why our foreheads often get dented. Check out  my forehead the next time you see me.  Does it have a dent? Warning:  Non horse people and horse people with non-gaited horses are going to find this exceedingly dull. Gaited horse people are going to hang on every word and probably not breathe until I run out of words. I have an IQ over 100.  I've been understanding why the dog walk is so…