Anna Blake Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I think we should nix all the others and celebrate Thanksgiving every month. I am fine with changing the meal sometimes, as long as the tradition of eating too much, sleeping, and saying thank you is still the order of the day. Got to love a holiday with such low … Read more
Breath = Renewal. It’s easy to forget how good it feels to lift your nose in the air and take a deep sip of fresh, crisp air. A big inhale is like a line you can cross over and start again fresh. Every moment, every breath, in the saddle or out. Such opportunity! Anna Blake, … Read more
Puppy breath is one of those addictive smells that isn’t actually pleasing aromatically. Still, who doesn’t inch their nose dangerously close to those tiny teeth, just for a whiff of puppy breath? One bright Sunday morning while driving to the barn to ride, I saw a sign on a ranch gate: Heeler Pups. I’d recently … Read more
“I am an Artist. I was told there would be no math.” 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. No psych, definitely not high … Read more
In a normal week I probably suggest, chirp, cajole, beg, and sometimes yell- the word forward at least 3 million times. This week it’s twice that, and I’m not even to my busiest lesson days yet. Sometimes I mix in some clucking noises for variety. Not that I am complaining. Not a bit. I owe … Read more
Go ahead, get to bed early. We dare you. (Black cats are amateurs.) Infinity Farm, 13 years old today.
Foreign no More. We are a melting pot: Polish, Iberian, Canadian, Irish, Native American- and those are just the horses. Our ancestors came from far lands but we have all come to rest here. Gratefully home. Anna Blake, Infinity Farm. WordPress Photo Challenge is a weekly prompt to share a photo- I enjoy twisting these … Read more
“Will you come over and ride our horse?” she asked. “We know he’s a dressage horse, we just don’t know how to cue him, but if you rode him… He does that trot in one place thing.” (I already knew they bought this elderly horse from their ‘trainer’, who tranquilized him for them to try … Read more
“God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again.” says Scarlett, in the movie Gone with the Wind, in silhouette. These two horses are not so dramatic, or hungry- but I do love a silhouette. Anna Blake, Infinity Farm. WordPress Photo Challenge is a weekly prompt to share a photo- I enjoy twisting these macro … Read more
The wind positively howled. There was sun, not that you could feel it. The horses didn’t want turn out. It was 20 degrees warmer in the south-facing runs and there’s not much windbreak on our prairie pasture. The horses that were turned out looked longingly at the barn and I knew the season has truly … Read more