A Clean Grey And Baby Horse Moments

So tomorrow is my big photo shoot with Gennyral. I have been trying to prep him for it for about a week now. How? Well I am trying to even out his really choppy mane…which is not an easy task. I also clipped his whiskers and his bridle path. Which lead to having to do [...]

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I Might Be Using My NARHA Certification Finally!

So tonight I have a meeting that I am very excited about. I know I don’t talk about it a whole ton, but I am certified therapeutic riding instructor through NARHA. In order to get this certification I actually moved to one of the places where a training course was held for one year. I [...]

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But I don’t want another grey!!!! (And I have a question for Appy people!)

Texas posing back in February So I am not a grey person. Yes, I love my horse. I think he is very handsome. His color was almost a deal breaker for me because I am not a fan of greys. They are VERY hard to keep clean, and I tend to be a bit OCD [...]

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Wordless Wednesday – My Weekly Laundry

I never ever thought I would miss this! After dealing with the sore, the fungus, and the tendon swelling I was so happy to have to scrub several days worth of Sports Medicine Boots again! Who ever saw that coming! Don’t mind the mud in the medical field. Gen was in it last week and [...]

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The New Boarder

So on March 1st we got a new boarder at the barn where I board Gennyral. Now some of you at larger barns are thinking “Umm…what’s the big deal with that”. Well, at Gennyrals barn there are 6 stalls, and 2 of them are for the owners horses. So we can have 4 boarders maximum. [...]

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Someday I will show at this show…

So yesterday I was a good volunteer for my GMO and I put in 10.5 hours at the show being a ring steward. It was a LONG day and my random bit checks admittedly came less frequently at the end there. In the morning we checked every horse, then it was every other horse, and [...]

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Mandatory Volunteering 2009

More Mandatory Volunteering My GMO, ES for short, has a show every year over Memorial Day Weekend. And every year for a long, long time I have volunteered at the show. I remember being in college and not really knowing what dressage was and seeing all these crazy good scores and just being amazed that [...]

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I asked how much Texas’s Sale Price Was…

And I am really sorry I did. So I don’t talk a lot about my personal life in this blog at all. This blog is just about horses, but sometimes my normal life comes into play in my horse life. As of June 30th I will be unemployed. As my long time readers know when [...]

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“Ummm…I Think They Care About Gennyral’s Injuries”…

Gen looking happy and sleepy after a day out in the medical paddock So last night as I was crawling all around my horse and under his legs, etc taking pictures (which didn’t turn out mind you) the owner of Hill Farm came in. He has watched me take pictures of Gen’s injuries plenty of [...]

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Fat Spotted Pony I Deem You “Blue Ribbon” Worthy

*Gen’s Leg Looked Great After Turnout! The fungus…not so much. Swelling vs. Fungus…not sure what to do* Now to talk about the other horse in my life. So my fat spotted pony has gone way above my expectations already this year. I thought showing such a young horse who had so little training was going [...]

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