Complaining about Humidity

July 7, 2011Posted inMissouri Fox Trotter, NOVA
During the winter, especially last winter, it was horrid cold.  We suffered terribly.  Everyone and I mean everyone in Missouri vowed never to complain about the Missouri heat.  I vowed to never complain about the heat.  You felt the cold horrid damp wet air go clear thru to your bones in winter Missouri.  I was snowed in for a total of 2 days and then the next time three days.  Snowed in and I live an inch from the city line.  The snow plows finally made it to my property…

Natural Solutions Horse Camp – May 2011

June 4, 2011Posted inNOVA, Velvet
I took Nova and Velvet to For the Horse Ranch. Velvet gets to stay there the rest of the riding year and be Jenny's Ranch Horse.  I rode Nova the first day and Velvet stayed in the pen by herself when Nova was out.  Velvet looked a little anxious and upset, so I rode Nova in the morning and Velvet in the afternoons after that. Velvet put on quite a ground work display of athletic talent the first afternoon.  You can tell when Velvet feels really good by her change…

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…

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…

Nova is a Blessing

February 12, 2011Posted inNOVA
Snow in Missouri.  Stacks and stacks of it.  My truck and trailer have been buried.  I forgot how to ride a horse in six weeks. This was a big day.  I got the truck and trailer out of the snow drifts.  Now to get the horse out of the barn.  There's still a foot of snow out there and it's hard to walk thru. I tried to open the barn door. Drat, the cord that hangs on the door was buried in 3" of ice.  I hacked and hacked with…

Four Outdoor Horse Hours

December 18, 2010Posted inNOVA
Thank you Jennifer Vaught for the great lesson and the fun time riding with great friends. Great friends, a great teacher and great horses.  The greats pile up! We rode slow with occasional times of speed and many rest periods.  We didn't want sweat. OK, most of the four hours wasn't outdoors.  Most of it was in an indoor arena. Someone did forget to turn on the furnace.  I left home at 11:30 and came back at 4:00.  The lesson was from 1:00-3:00, but it always runs longer. We did toast up in the…