Wondrous Blogger

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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

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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

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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?

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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…

Wanted: Free Temp Southern Home

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I'm advertising for a free place to live for two humans, two dogs, and five horses in Dallas or the Atlanta area.  I should be able to get a hardship winter transfer from work.  This would just be temporary.  All the above predature and prey animals would be there and boom be gone in the Missouri spring!  You would hardly get to know we were there. If you know of such a place, my household can be there in less than a month! This morning the water pump in the barn froze and…

National Missouri Fox Trotter Official Blogger

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Have I mentioned that I got to be one of the official bloggers during the 2010 Missouri Fox Trotter World Celebration show Official Blogger I'm sorry if I did mention it before.  On the other hand, it's winter now and you might have time to read my official blog stories. I represented the versatility events. After you have spent a little more than a week in the high energy World Celebration, you manage to make it home and then you are trashed for at least a week. Not only does this…