Winter at the Computer – Yeccha

December 12, 2010Posted inPride's Traveling John John (JJ)
I do love making web sites.  I do love advertising horses.  I do love updating my web sites and finding new stuff that the software developers have added to make my experience better. I use angelfire.com for my web sites.  It's an old friend. Recently they have updated the place where I can almost make a pretty web site do anything I want without having to do the entire site in html coding. I'm in the process of making Prides Traveling John John's new web page.  There are glitches, but…

New Weight Loss with Horses Plan!

December 7, 2010Posted inMiscellaneous
Ride after Work to Size 12 Here's what I came up with... The plan is that I come home from work in the dark, miserable weather.  I put a horse into the trailer and drive to Pine Dell stable and ride. I come home frozen, take care of the horses and eat a few bites on my way into the shower to unfreeze my body parts.  Try on a size 12 shirt.  Hit the bed and sleep for the next day to come. Repeat until size 12 shirt buttons. See how this…

Feeling Your Body Freeze Means You Are Alive!

December 4, 2010Posted inVelvet
I'm getting old enough now to really appreciate being alive and being able to ride. Here's Velvet and I riding in front of Jazz and Hope.  I heard Hope talking and knew she was filming! Velvet and facing into a freezing gusty wind today, Boy Howdy...full alert life up on that one!  Having my body parts freeze today was a good reminder of being alive.  I suppose my feet froze last year, but I don't remember that feeling.  I suppose my thighs froze last year, but I don't remember that feeling…

Nova’s Notebook – Trail Riding is on Trails

November 28, 2010Posted inNOVA, Velvet
My friend Ken loves to rode.  He is a rider. That's the highest compliment I can bestow on a person. Hope on Velvet and I on Nova decided to double grace Ken's life and let him ride with us at Lake Perry again.  My last post was a statement of the rules.  Let me repeat my rules: Two hours Flat places for going fast This ride Ken followed the rules.  He found long stretches of flat land for us to go fast.  Ah...sigh... Then he lead us into the forest where…

Trail Rules – Everyone has rules!

November 20, 2010Posted inNOVA, Velvet
Ken, Hope and I rode a small portion of Lake Perry. Kansas, trails today.  I gave Ken my rules about trail riding.  It's gotta be 2 hours, It's got to be in the high 40's and There's gotta be flat land on which to go fast. He had great success with rules one and two.  We didn't have much flat land upon which to go fast. Oh well.  Other than the last part where we couldn't find a trail back to our trailers and we were lost for seemingly, hours - It was…

Friday thru Monday Happiness

November 15, 2010Posted inNOVA, Powder, Velvet
Just singing my happiness living my life with horses. Friday was wonderful.  Powder came home from her 30 days of training with Tony and Jennifer Vaught.  It was good to have her back in the pasture again.  Powder and Velvet had never met.  Powder didn't move fast enough to suit Velvet, so Powder lost some hair. She's very aware of Velvet now. Friday was lesson night.  I have my winter goals for  with Nova.  We are to trail walk with head down until she is really relaxed.  You remember that…