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Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreaming

Dreaming of warm sun on a perfect herd. Dreaming of reality. Anna, Infinity Farm. WordPress Photo Challenge is a weekly...
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The Dressage/Massage Warm-up.

What if an arena ride had the effect of a massage for a horse? Wouldn’t the rider feel great too?...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement

Movement. Soaring on hooves Across the prairie Landing in your chest. Anna, Infinity Farm. WordPress Photo Challenge is a weekly...
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Dressage: It Rhymes with Massage.

 Horses have been a key part of our culture ever since they civilized us centuries ago- in everything from transportation...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting Moment

The llamas are having a fleeting moment. Edgar Rice Burro is day dreaming about being a fleeting llama. Life is...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Create

We are so cool that our obstacles have obstacles! The Dude Rancher has been creating special obstacles for Horse Agility,...
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Horse Trading and Online Dating.

My grandfather Percy Blake was a horse trader. They say he had a good eye, but I could never quite...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: CLOSE

Horse Yoga. So very close- it's your breath that I exhale. Anna Blake Infinity Farm.
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Love + Fear = Confidence

It starts pretty much the same way for most of us: One day we see a horse. He's beautiful and...
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Helmet Advice from Your Horse.

Tomorrow is International Helmet Awareness Day. I usually mark the day by writing about horses and helmets. Every year I...
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Duke Ellington has a Message for Dressage Riders.

It goes without saying that Duke Ellington is right, about most everything. And even horses agree. But I get ahead...
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Edgar Rice Burro's Theatrical Debut…

... and what donkeys offer the real life dressage world. We're just home from Edgar Rice Burro's debut in the...
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Ruby Ranch Horse Rescue Benefit Clinic Flyer

This clinic will be a fun day with interesting activities for you and your horse. And come even if you...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Hands

Pinky Pledge Sometimes their lives are in our hands, and sometimes our lives are in their hands.  Trust can grow...
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Why I Have No Sense of Humor About Arena Footing.

I have no sense of humor about arena footing. None. Let me start here: I don't consider a plowed up...
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Compassion for All Life. Not Quite.

This morning a lone Canadian goose flew over my pond, calling loudly- back and forth, and again. I wondered if...
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Do you think it’s time to clean the truck?

My hay guy got a new truck- a pristine dually in a pearlized-platinum color, with near Porsche-like lines. That big...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Together

Edgar Rice Burro and Holiday. Together. It isn't that they just love each other. Edgar would prefer Holiday not lay...
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