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Fecal Sample Anyone?

First- thanks for reading past the title- you are fearless. But on the other hand, can someone tell me what...
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Ask Not…!

Some horse owners have simple expectations of their horses. Standing in the pasture about covers it- and a couple of...
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Wealth That Money Can't Buy.

Lots of us struggle to balance horses and money. There is an assumption that owning horses is a rich person's...
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The Perfect Purse.

That is what I called my first truck- the perfect purse. It could carry all I needed for work and...
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Who's Spookin' Who?

It was time to take my proud and extremely green Arabian gelding out of the arena for the first time....
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The Barn Rat Release.

First, lets get our terminology straight. A barn rat is a child who might answer an ad with the headline...
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Learning to Ride

“No one can teach riding so well as a horse.” C.S. Lewis While it is true that horses like a...
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Women's Work, and Dads.

Lloyd Blake was a farmer and even now it isn’t an easy life to romanticize. I worked outside with him...
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The Problem with Perfection

  Lots of us riders are perfectionists. It isn’t a bad thing to want to get things right.  We want...
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A Tweet for my Barn.

I want to say this upfront- I do not tweet. I have to draw the line somewhere. I admit I...
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