Originally I pictured this post being full of items deep from the trenches of the internet, but then some awesome bloggers were WAY more creative than I was to begin with and did a stellar job with all of their own photographs. Braymere Custom Saddlery took this idea to my favorite 1:9 scale world, and I cooed over the photos like a small child. Then Carly from Poor Woman Showing won at life with the amazing Bobby, and Sprinkler Bandit did…
The minute I saw Beka’s post about the Archie scrapbook, I knew that I had to participate in this week’s blog hop. You see, once upon a time I was an avid scrapbooker. You can add that to my dorky hobby list, if you’re keeping track. I would scour craft sores in search of horsey themed paper, embellishments and all other sorts of cool papery things. My scrapbooks started pretty elementary and eventually got fairly well designed as my tool…
It’s been a quiet weekend here. Suffice to say, I much prefer quiet to running myself over with my car. In fact I’m oh so happy to report that I have driven myself some independently this week and have managed to keep all 4 car doors on my husband’s car. Hopefully I will continue to have as much success with my car when I get it back early this week. The worst thing to happen to me all weekend was…
One year ago, my little fur family got turned upsidown when my springer spaniel, Eliot, attacked our elderly Boston Terrier, BT. As a result of the attack, BT had several puncture wounds in her head and damage to her eye. Though we worked closely with an emergency vet and our regular vet, after a week we decided it was in BT’s best interest to have her eye removed. The incident was heart breaking. I’ve written about my feelings during and…
When I wrote my 2015 goals, I mentioned that I wanted to confirm or deny Simon’s saddle fit this year. It seemed like a huge task, because I wasn’t thrilled with the fitter I had used previously and basically bought my saddle on the internet site unseen by a tack store employee looking at a few pictures of Simon’s back. Recipe for success, right? Luckily an awesome blog reader (thank you!) recommended another local fitter to me, so I happily…
A while ago, I had lunch with several barn friends and the men in our lives came up. One who was single at the time said, “I just want someone who won’t get upset about the horses!” It’s a pretty valid request, as we all know just how much time and money horses take up in our lives. Today I want to focus on the money part though. Does your significant other get upset about the money spent with horses?…
Aside from running myself over with my car, I did have some great fun this weekend when awesome blogger friend Tracy from Fly On Over came to Austin for vacation! Now I’m not sure you’re aware, but no trip to the Lone Star state is complete without a visit to nerd horse and yours truly. Lucky for me, Tracy and her awesome husband agreed to trek outside of Austin for a bit of a horsey adventure. When I finally managed…
Last week was not my week. We won’t get into the crux of it, but on Friday night I was so looking forward to the weekend when we’d have sunshine and lots of barn time! Plus, super awesome blog friend Tracy was coming to Austin for the weekend and we had fun plans to hang out. We did hang out, and it was super fun but I’m going to save the fun post for tomorrow and today share my stupidity with y’all. First, on Friday…