Feeling a little nostalgic for the little old red horse lately. Elvis is also probably the most photographed horse I’ve ever owned. A few months after I got him, my beloved childhood horsie best friend colicked and was put down. I took that as a lesson that there was no such thing as too many pictures, because I only have a small handful of Doodles. Anyway, here are some of my favorites from all facets of Elvis. Keep in mind…
I waffled about joining this blog hop, because the reality is I’d be happy to meet so many of you bloggers out there! Seriously… we enjoy writing and the internet and our horses, those are three giant common interests right there so basically we’re sure to be best friends, right? So I decided to put my own spin on things and tell you who I do know and some fun “stalker” experiences I have had through blogging. As many of you…
Took time this weekend to repeat a mantra to myself – pout less! With more reflecting at the vet’s diagnosis, it wasn’t too hard to do. At this moment, I’ll be able to ride my horse in a week… which is no big thang. For now, I’ll just take it one week at a time. After some family time with my mother in law Saturday (and a massive cleaning spree to get ready for her visit), I was a pretty…
Having a show horse is like 100 hobbies in one. One of them? Fishing. Not for actual fish of course, but for a lameness diagnosis… because when your horse is one hot mess like mine there isn’t always a clear answer. We headed to the vet on Friday afternoon with the goal of getting an ultrasound to diagnosis a suspensory and some x-rays to see if he has kissing spines or not. I took away a lot more information than…
This title is funny to me. Instead of participating in an unpopular blog hop, I’m participating in a blog hop about unpopular opinions. This week L. Williams‘ asks: What is 1 unpopular horsey opinion you have? It seems like I have all kinds of unpopular opinions, but the topical one for me right now is how I don’t think it’s wrong to use maintenance to keep a young horse with lameness going. That’s kind of a weird statement, but let…
I really thought about not posting any until I had more news, but this blog is really important to me. I’ve had it pre-Simon and I will have it post-Simon (which is hopefully in like 20 years). So, here’s another not exactly uplifting post. During my mega-pouting session last week, I did a lot of pondering on the subject of what I put on the internet. If I were to critique my blog, I would think that I’m a bit…
I had the vet out today, and the short story is that I still don’t have a firm answer and what I have is not excellent news. First we lunged Simon in the round pen, and he looked sound both directions. Didn’t show any of the dropping behavior I described to her at the walk, trot or canter. Next they flexed his hock/stifle/suspensory. He jogged out pretty well with the left, and slightly worse to the right but still not…
A while ago, I was contacted by the nice folks at Leather Honey to see if I could review their leather cleaner and conditioner. It took me a while due to lack of barn time and general moping about the condition of my horse. Over the three day weekend I put on my big girl pants and stopped pouting, so I have part of the Leather Honey review for you! I received both Leather Honey Conditioner and Leather Honey Cleaner…