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Want to Hear my Elevator Line?

When you finish a book, you are supposed to have a short description that is pithy, immediately intriguing, and leaves...
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Weekly Photo Challenge- Warm.

Warm is a verb. The action that warm takes is to release things. Like when you lay in the sun...
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A Rescue Training Journal, Told from Two Viewpoints.

If there is an annual pony day, it should be Christmas. The reason is obvious, but if you didn't get...
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Weekly Photo Challenge- Yellow.

This time of year, the only warm place to nap in the sun is on the dining room table. It...
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Rescue: Not for the Faint of Heart.

RRHR Rubio Do you ever wonder if a rescue horse would be good enough to be...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Twinkle

Rescue Corgis, DBA The Little Men: Walter and the Preacher Man. This twinkle inspired by true love. Or maybe leftover...
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Seasonal Training Aids.

I'll speak for myself. It's only the middle of December and I'm a bit tired of this holiday season already....
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Weekly Photo Challenge- Gone, But Not Forgotten

Howdy Hero The Wild Texas Wind (Windy) Gone within days of each other, two years ago this month. Still family--dearly...
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Vet Visit! Breathing is Connection.

Emergency vet call! One of my boarded horses is sick. He's a draft cross, timid but kind. He likes things...
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Weekly Photo Challenge -Converge

A barn is a place of meeting and joining. We come from all different directions, all different experiences and all...
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Being Grateful for Things You Don't Like.

My favorite training mentor had a habit that drove me nuts. She would be working with a horse who spooked...
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Weekly Photo Challenge -Angular.

Farms are not very angular places and I will admit, my eyes are drawn to curves and not angles. Llamas...
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Abuse -When do you speak up?

Do you ever get haunted by a situation where you wish you had said something? Mine was 18 months ago....
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Weekly Photo Challenge – Achievement

We've been fifteen years on this little farm now and each of us has days to brag about. In the...
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Waiting out the storm with the Dogs of War.

Profound courage on guard detail. Last Monday I worked a couple of horses in the morning....
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Mini-malist

Spartan. Austere. Spare. Not more than required. Mini-mialist.  Anything but... Anna Blake, Infinity Farm. WordPress Photo Challenge is a weekly prompt...
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Weather Amnesia -A Time Change Rage.

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage...
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