I dropped off my husband early Thursday morning for a bachelor party weekend in North Carolina. I was happy for him to have a weekend with close friends goofing off and forgetting about responsibilities. For me, I had several days scheduled of lots of barn time and working on my yard planting spring flowers. What did I get instead? 102 fever on Thursday. I stayed home from work and slept all day. By sleeping all day I also slept through feeding…
Since this is primarily a horse blog, I tend to keep the topics fairly upbeat and of course… pony related. In the horse front, I have a lot to be thankful for. It is such a privilege to be able to lesson, train and show like I am right now. Even with our challenges, I am so thrilled to have Simon and really enjoy our time together. That doesn’t change the fact that behind the scenes, I’ve been pretty low this…
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…
When I started blogging, I had some expectations in mind. I figured I would have a good look back into progress with my horse, maybe hit some traffic goals with subscribers and learn more about writing and how to market myself. All of those things turned out to be true, but what I didn’t anticipate was making real friends through blogging. Though I say “strangers” in the title of this post, I don’t consider my blogging friends strangers… even though…
We all know the phrase “heart horse”, so it should come as no surprise to any animal lover that heart dogs are equally as common. What I didn’t post about much this week, is how stressful my heart dog currently is right now. This is not a post about that though – this is a post about our happier days. I got Eliot for my 21st birthday. For months, and I do mean months, I had been begging my parents…
This entire post is full of first world problems. I have nothing legitimate to complain about, and I realize this. Compared to some people’s problems, I am oh so lucky at the moment. That being said, I’m going to whine a little bit. While 2014 certainly could be worse, it hasn’t exactly gotten off on the right foot. Dog drama abounds in my house. We are almost two weeks post BT’s enucleation and I still haven’t been able to breathe easy…
Slight diversion from the usual news here… see, when I first started this blog back in 2010 (coincidentally when we moved to Austin) I wrote about whatever I felt like. I don’t regret taking an all horse direction last year and have really enjoyed focusing on Simon, but there times like today when I had some crappy rides this weekend and don’t really feel like going on and on about my horse. For those days, I’m going to experiment with…