Black Horse Fate and True Love

July 30, 2014Posted inCISCO, Missouri Fox Trotter
The Super Horse Missouri Fox Trotter Competition this past June was truly "super" for me. Nichole Copple and Velvet won the Open Championship. Caitlyn Vaught and Powder won the Youth Championship. I won something too, even though I didn't participate in the arena. I won a horse! The horse was donated by Charles and Dawn Lindsay of Marshfield, Missouri. It was winter 2014. The proceeds of the raffle went to a fund for special needs children. I saw the head shot picture of the horse. He was a black horse…

Balance

July 17, 2014Posted inCountry Frank's Lucky Star, Missouri Fox Trotter
Lucky and I went on a trail ride today at James A Reed.  Chas and Louie went too.  Lucky needed this trail ride.  He needed to get out and see the scenery! It's sunflower time at James A Reed park!  It's also corn time there too.  The ears are almost finished...not yet edible, but coming along. We had a great time.  Lucky is a great trail horse.  He might look at strange things, but keeps right on trucking.  He's got one spook in him and I know exactly where it's…

Lucky Star, the Punk

July 16, 2014Posted inCountry Frank's Lucky Star, Missouri Fox Trotter
I might have reported that Lucky Star and I had a giant argument last Friday.  We didn't get it resolved on Saturday.  I thought it was resolved on Tuesday, but the labor strike was still ongoing as of tonight. Our arguments involve too much work expectations. So tonight, I was able to play with Lucky in a round pen..at liberty.  He had his saddle on as I expected to ride.  I asked him to move around the round pen and he told me how he felt about that.  He does…

bike misery

July 14, 2014Posted inLIFE BIKING
Sad it is when you start anything new to your body. My body is just starting anew with the bike.  This might have been our third or fourth real ride.  My feet are used to toes up when riding a horse.  When riding a bike, the toes point down quite a bit.  One of my feet doesn't want to point down, so I have torn or stretched some kind of muscle on top of my foot.  ouch I bought a camelback water carrier yesterday at the high price Walmart store.…

Lucky Star Maturing? Good Gad

July 11, 2014Posted inCountry Frank's Lucky Star, Missouri Fox Trotter
Never fear, Lucky Star still argues.  He did take a rein in his mouth just last week.  The young argumentative boy has turned into a more mature less argumentative boy.  Lucky and I spend a lot of time going slow, steering with the hindquarter and riding without me touching the reins.  After we get all this worked out, we might do a few drop to trot canter lead changes in a figure eight type pattern  He still breaks into a non rhythmic lateral bumpy gait.  We can't keep the three…

Cisco Love

July 11, 2014Posted inCISCO, Missouri Fox Trotter
What an amazing horse is Cisco! Cisco is doing great. I loaded him and Lucky into the trailer and we went to play some ground games. Lucky was fine tied to trailer and eating grass while Cisco and I played the seven Parelli games. Cisco is wonderful. I decided that the  last game  would be me sending him into the trailer. He's fine with being led into the trailer, but me asking him to load is just a little different. I won the game when Cisco loaded him self into…