Nova’s Notebook – Gaiting Out on the Trail

October 3, 2010Posted inNOVA
  Hope and I got to ride on the first crisp days of the Fall Weekend.  Hope's husband wondered if 50 degrees was going to be too cold for us to ride. ha! We are cowgirl trail riders (for a while yet..until it gets too cold for us) Here's Hope on Chip, a beautiful silver chocolate Rocky Mountain horse. Today, even the green alge was beautiful on one of the many lakes and ponds we ride by at James A. Reed park. We had a great time in the windy…

Powder’s Progress- Phases of Pressure

September 27, 2010Posted inPowder
Here's my terrible confession.  I am writing this blog just to publish some recent pictures of Powder. Don't worry, I have more from this great Sunday Fall afternoon.  You'll get to see all of them, eventually. Here's our self protrait. It's my blog.  I can do whatever I want!  See how my eyebrows match her hair.  If I want, I can have half my hair match Powder, but I would never admit that to anyone!  Let's just leave it at my eyebrows for now.  I love it when my horse…

Powder’s Progress- Liberty Game

September 26, 2010Posted inPowder
It's a game we love to play. We turn the horses loose in the arena and wait for them to want to come back to us. The rules for the horses are trot or canter, maintain the same direction and don't cut thru the middle.That last rule is important because that's where the humans stand.  Tony called her "sassy"!  Sassy she was indeedy.  In the above picture, her goal was to be the leading horse. She cut the corner to pass Spike and JR. Not only did Powder cut thru…

Mom’s Life

September 24, 2010Posted inMiscellaneous
Check out THE AMERICAN TENORS My son is a singer and I've been gone three wonderful days to watch and hear him sing. Nathan Granner is one of The American Tenors.  This is an awesome wonderful group.  Three of us went down to Hot Springs to hear two concerts at Hot Springs Village.  Ben Gulley and Marcus McConico are the other singers. We heard opera, show tunes, pop tunes and some great Mario Lanza tunes sang by classically trained tenors.  If that doesn't beat all, nothing else will either! Frank McNamara is…

Sage Fox Trots!

September 19, 2010Posted inSage
SAGE, the Fox Trotting Fool or Yes Virginia, there really is a Fox Trotting GOD 4/16/98 How did it happen? I have many theories and so do others. One day late last winter, Sage and I were out riding around the neighborhood. It was muddy and I had to go back to where I left something while I was riding her. I looked at her tracks and just stood frozen in awe. Her hoofs fell on top of each other. I could see the big word in my mind with…

Nova’s Notebook – Lesson time with Jenny

September 17, 2010Posted inNOVA
Pat Parelli has done various studies of their students and why they enter the program.  Some of them have specific problems and when these problems are overcome, the students move out of the program. Many stay a long long time. Others drop out for various reasons. The category I'm in is "Want to Always Learn More - Can't Ever Get Enough" Lessons are my favorite horse back riding activity.  Lessons with the right people.  My right people are Jennifer and Tony Vaught. Tonight was the first time I've rode Nova since…