This is a particularly good topic for me, because unlike many of you my blog (though horsey related) is not named after my horse or the equestrian world in general. So for this week’s blog hop by Viva Carlos we have… What is the story behind your blogname/url? I moved to Texas in spring of 2010. Though I’m originally from North Carolina, we had lived for the previous almost two years in Massachusetts and the experience was not awesome. We…
I haven’t done a questionnaire thing in a while, so thought I would give this one a try for a rainy day. Taken from Equestrian at Hart who got it from The Daily Horse. 1) What discipline do you ride? Hunter/jumpers, primarily hunters right now but I’m hoping to be able to play in all 3 rings (hunter, jumper and equitation) this year. 2) If you had to switch your discipline which one would you choose? If I kept Simon and had…
I’ve been talking a lot about my dogs here lately, and while I gave y’all a pretty thorough background of Eliot’s aggression and our recent issues.. I didn’t say what we’ve been working on to fix it. I realize this situation can’t continue without a serious intervention. We can’t risk our dogs getting hurt over and over again, and Eliot isn’t happy either. Faced with the possibility of re-homing him or euthanasia (worst case scenario, but let’s be honest… it…
First quarter of 2014 has been a time of “pay all the vet bills” for me. Combine that with my saddle purchase, and I may be out of debt by summer. Maybe? Hopefully? Therefore, I’m trying to spend less money. This is not a skill of mine, but I improved my thrifty techniques over the years. Of course I still own a high maintenance horse, so I will not be teaching any financial planning classes just yet. One thing I…
If you’re a basketball fan, you’re already thinking about what teams you’ll choose for your NCAA tournament bracket… but what about if you’re a horse fan? We have no tournament. Sad panda! … until now! I thought it might be fun to do a “March Madness” for equestrian blogs. This is all in fun, and participation is completely voluntary. What is Eq Blogs March Madness? I will accept blog nominations from Friday, March 7th until Friday, March 14th. That’s an entire week…
We’re having ridiculous Texas weather again. No, we don’t have piles of snow and tons of rain like some of y’all… but it can be equally as frustrating. Case in point – Saturday it was in the high 70’s by the end of the day. Sunday morning the temperature dropped 20 degrees in 30 minutes, and we got lots of wind and rain. Monday night brought a sleet thunderstorm… but I wasn’t able to ride Sunday and I really wanted to…
Happy Fat Tuesday! Though I’m not from New Orleans or “Mardi Gras” country, I really do love the holiday. For many years, my mother in law lived in uptown New Orleans and we would visit for Mardi Gras every year. It quickly became even more exciting than Christmas! She would make amazing King Cakes, and we would pretty much exist on sugar and alcohol for about a week. There was a parade almost every day, and they were within walking distance from…
Even though I decided to cancel my plans to show in March, I’m a horse show addict and I usually can’t stay away. I headed out early to watch our hunters go, planning to ride Simon during lunch before the jumpers and then come back to the horse show to watch and photograph the jumpers in the afternoon. Of course, we know how horse show schedules go and I ended up staying all day and getting properly sunburnt. The morning…