Rescuing Rusty

I don’t talk  to my dad very often. Not because I don’t love him, I do! He’s a great dad. Neither of us are much at the phone thing though.…

If training horses is like raising children… No matter how we raise our children or train our horses it is guaranteed that they will embarrass us if people are looking.…

If training horses is like raising children… Yes, children who are told no and yelled at often can be just as rotten as those who are raised in a more…

It’s been a crazy busy last few weeks and I haven’t gotten anything posted! Things are slowing down a little and I hope to get caught up, there are lots…

Getting the halter on Ghost for the first time. This one is a little old. I could have held her still long enough to pull the halter on quick and…

We signed the kids up for gymnastics recently. I have hopes, false hopes but still, of them someday doing vaulting. The horseback verity. The gymnastics instructor was very confused when…

They say that quiet riders make for nervous horses. Going by that theory then, do quiet rides make for nervous riders? I desperately hope for and want my children to…

In my playground I laid out two poles in an L, always a fun toy. I finally got to play with Harvey over it. This was his first go. Not…

I helped at a 4H horse show recently. It had been a long time for me. Since high school or before for an  actual 4H show slightly less time for…

We see so many glamorous images of the “cowboy”. A man tall on his horse out galloping across the plains, defending good and right, wiping the trail dust from his…