Rescuing Rusty

Not that I plan to stop at three or anything but it was my goal. I had a trainer tell me one time that if you are training a horse…

When you’re on a roll it’s best to keep going. Things fell into place perfectly for once. The youngest child sleeping, the oldest off playing with the cousins and my…

And he was great. Tanna was great, Everything went great. The wind was howling and the temp had gone from very comfortable all morning to nearly one hundred. It is…

I sure hope so. Tanna has come out a couple of times this week and ridden and helped me work Rusty. Yesterday was a bit of a rushed lesson for…

Took Rusty for his first walk behind the fourwheeler yesterday. My old boy Coyote thinks he is a fourwheeler and will get upset about his “herd” leaving if they take…

I keep saying what fun it’s going to be someday to teach Rusty to work cattle for real. Then I thought why wait for someday. Why not teach him to…

It’s hot out. Not to whine or anything. But I did it, I got out and worked him. We did some easy ground work and he was sweating. I was…

Spring came and with it all the spring works. Corn needed planted, calves worked, cattle shipped to pasture and the garden put in. Rusty got put on the back burner.…

Or my other double swirl horse. I know this blog is supposed to be about Rusty but I can’t not mention my favorite little rescue horse ever. He was an…

We’ve been going for walks our last couple of sessions. Everybody, but me, has been sick and dragging a saddle out is just more work than I can handle. So…