Sage on the Trail

September 24, 2011Posted inMiscellaneous
We rode at James A Reed (JAR) today and discovered it was National Hunting and Fishing Day.  JAR was celebrating that.  They had a field set up for skeet shooting.  Coincidentially, it was right next to one of the trails that we ride.  We turned around, but a park guy was right there and told us happily that they would be shooting in the field but the trails were open. Obviously, he isn't a horse person.  But we were there early and they were just setting up for the skeet…

OLS

August 13, 2011Posted inMiscellaneous
After the 5 hour clinic today, I came home and died in the recliner. All my muscles died, my eyes died,my smile died, my bright red hair died. After a couple hours of dead, the coroner decided I was still alive and made me move out of the recliner. Five hours of riding after taking the long heat wave off.... Lordy I had my condition diagnosed after this happened.  It a disease and it's called OLD LADY SYNDROME OLS can be semi-cured with naps.

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!…

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…

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…

Just What the Heck Is Natural Horsmanship?

February 25, 2011Posted inMiscellaneous
NATURAL HORSEMANSHIP For more than 6000 years, man tried to bridge the chasm between his own species, the ultimate predator, and the horse, the ultimate prey animal.  Man needed the horse to be a servant. The horse was programmed to be anything but a servant.  The man adopted his most efficient tool, brute force.  It was the basis of horsemanship practiced by the common man for millennia. We had early natural horsemen: Simon of Athens (400B.C.), Xenophon (430-355) and Alexander the Great are the names most well-known  by natural horsemanship…