Trails (and Trials)

Major didn't keep feeling better. On Sunday evening the barn called me, he was laying down and not eating. I went over and he got up whe...

The rain let up for a few hours, just in time for my scheduled vet appointment. Though the vet couldn't come in our main gate because a ...

The rain has just not let up. I was away for a few days of crazy storms, and came back to fallen trees, overflowing streams...and a horse wh...

The ride started out nicely...five miles to Mormon Ravine. Previously that has been the bridge of death, but Major crossed it with only a li...

To any horse-loving child, those names should bring back memories of Marguerite Henry's "King of the Wind." The desert-bred Sh...

With better weather and more trail time approaching, I'm itching to hook up my trailer and try some new locations. This will be my first...

(I got back to the barn after my ride and the manager wondered if Major had been a jerk so I'd come back early? I explained where we...

Saturday was bright and sunny...and cold. At the ranch the puddles were frozen and Major was just finishing his breakfast. And was a bit of ...

I take it back. The last ride in the rain was nice. This storm is much colder. I managed to sneak a ride in before this current storm, becau...

It started raining again just as my trimmer showed up. The weather report said scattered showers, I was hoping to fit in a ride...so after m...

It is hard to lose a friend, especially one who has taught you so much. This weekend my favorite school horse, Echo, was suffering from coli...

A day of extremes. What came first: counting more than 20 rigs in the staging area, calling the park dispatch on a dirt-bike rider on the ho...

"There is a thing up there! A big thing, on the ground! SNORT! Don't make me walk over there! Oh, we're walking closer, I am b...

A Sunday Tale. Just a short ride to loosen up from yesterday's ride. The weather was (again) spectacular, Major was in a good mood. I...

Major and I joined two friends for a picnic outing. And so did every horse owner in our area! I apologize to people stuck in the snow and ...

Life has conspired in the last few weeks toward too much work and not enough horse time. That was semi-ok was Major was hurt, but now the su...

It was so good to be back in the saddle. I have really enjoyed my time with Major walking the road, eating grass and relaxing, but the trail...

The barn manager just called me. They gave Major his Bute this morning and he was a good boy about taking it. Before it could even have take...

A nice forest hike on Saturday, grass grazing on Sunday, small forest ride Monday...and Major wouldn't move Tuesday. He seemed stiff on ...

Nice ride on  Monday, just quiet through the pea soup fog. Couldn't see more than 50 feet. Here is the view from inspiration point: Janu...

You never know what will happen when you go to the barn, or ride, or hike. Last week I was putting my tack away and looked over at the arena...

Major seemed 100% improved today, back to his usual self. I, of course, worried all night, but he ate breakfast and was out in pasture when ...

This evening Major wasn't feeling well. I went and got him from his pasture and he didn't want to lead. I thought maybe he was being...

Freezing fog. Damp, cold. Little beads of ice frozen on Major's whiskers after our ride. It never got above freezing. I know some people...

Completely ignore the last post pondering any sort of endurance ride. That is so far removed from anything I can contemplate accomplishing.....

The last few days I've been looking over all the statistics from my gps rides. I know it doesn't include all the hours in the arena,...

An annual tradition, continued in the rain. I was able to convince a friend to come, even with the rain we wanted to ring in the year with o...

I should have known when I got to the ranch and Major was kicking up his heels running around the pasture. It was only 35 degrees, but he mu...

"Neither wind, nor rain, nor hail, nor gloom of clouds, stays this rider from the swift completion of her appointed trails." -apol...

I love to bake. But I certainly don't need more cookies to eat! And it was raining and yucky yesterday, so I found myself making horse t...