Dressage on a Rescue: Doing More with Less
I need to make a confession. I shop lifted when I was in high school and what they say is right: Willfully breaking the law impacts your character.
Animal Topic: Horse Related
Weekly Photo Challenge: Street Life
Street Life on the farm is not much different. Individual personality makes for rich diversity. It takes all kinds, just the way we like it. Anna Blake, Infinity Farm. WordPress Photo Challenge is a weekly prompt to share a photo- I enjoy twisting these macro prompts to share our micro life here on the Colorado … Read more
Volunteering 101: Come Get Me.
What do you believe? Is there any reason a horse shouldn’t have as good a recall as a dog?
Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections
They are siblings; they reflect each other, they reflect their sire and dam. They reflect the herd they live in here at the farm and finally, just a teeny bit on the very surface, they reflect me. It’s strange to think a couple of horses with that much mud on them would reflect anything at … Read more
Subtle Abuse: When Aids Become Weapons.
My client’s mare is lovely; a very well-bred athletic horse. When my client bought her, the previous owner suggested my client get a cowboy to ride her at first, she needed spurs all the time and the horse was ‘mare-y‘, whatever that means. I get a little mare-y myself at the suggestions. My client decided … Read more
Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside
Inside? No, but thanks for asking. Anna Blake, Infinity Farm. WordPress Photo Challenge is a weekly prompt to share a photo- I enjoy twisting these macro prompts to share our micro life here on the Colorado prairie. My photos are taken with my phone, on my farm. No psych, definitely not high-tech.
The Art is in the Transition.
Horses don’t come in a choice of automatic or manual transmission, but we can ride them that way.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Perspective
Edgar Rice Burro is born for free jumping. I know, suspend the disbelief. No whips or spurs, just equine excellence! Appearances are deceptive: There is a magnificent intelligence just under that huge brow, but no one is more playful than Edgar. On this morning, he’d been running laps and jumping for ten minutes before I … Read more
Explaining Dressage: the small print.
First of all, the reason Dressage needs some explaining is that the there are some misconceptions about this riding discipline.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Abandoned
ABANDONED…..NO MORE! Not the Corgis…Me. I’m no longer abandoned in the bathroom, ostracized in a tiny damp room that smells of soap and lotion. No longer doomed to brief moments of loneliness and tragic solitude in this, the most dangerous room in the house. Being a Rescue Dogs, Walter and Preacher Man stay ever alert … Read more