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  The White Rabbit Wasn’t Late This Time

  Are you late for a very important date? Well, I showed up well in time for a charity luncheon tea themed party. Each table held a theme and I was invited to the Alice in Wonderland theme. I guess she couldn’t get anyone else to dress up as the White Rabbit so I was let in on the gig. Of course I jumped at the chance to dress up like a bunny and sit with a group of ladies at [...]

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  Our First Egg In 2010

  After a hiatus from laying our hens decided to start working again. This is our first egg of 2010. Unfortunately only one sad day after this photo was taken, our neighbors dog came down and killed one of our hens. Then there were two. It was really sad to watch that unmanaged dog run back home down the street with our food providing hen, dead in her mouth. This will likely stunt their laying and set us back further still [...]

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  Recent Local Fix-A-Test Event

  A local stable called Blossom Ferry Farm (http://blossomferryfarm.com/) offered a Fix-A-Test recently and I drove out to meet some of the locals as well as watch Tanya and Fidge go. It was a bit of a trek to get there but well worth it meeting several nice dressage folks! Tanya and Fidge were super as shown by a few pictures I snapped with my trusty iPhone. Here’s Tanya getting a few notes from the Fix-A-Test judge Susie. No DQ (or [...]

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  Logical Training Discussions On Bulletin Boards

  I occasionally read and post to some bulletin boards online when the notion strikes me that my opinion might be helpful to at least one person. Most all the time the threads I post to are constructive and people very friendly but not all are this way and some people get quite heated which I find interesting as I enjoy debate but feel it shouldn’t result in name calling. The poster I’m replying to in the paste below commented about [...]

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  Let’s It Snow!

  While the upper east coast will not likely rally around the title of this blog, a few snow days were welcome here. If the weather is going to be cold and wet and training halted simply because the arena is closed then why not get to enjoy the lovely white stuff? We received about 5 inches overnight to wake in a winter wonderland Saturday morning. This was Zita’s first snow at the farm as she was in training this time [...]

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  Boutique Bedding

  I’ve been chatting with the company that makes a compressed pine bedding product for a bit now. I love all things innovative and environmentally friendly and their stuff seems to fit the bill on both so I am giving it a trial! It’s like one – two – three! You dump the bags in the stall. Then you smooth them out level. Then you “just add water” enough to fluff the uncompress pine. Here you go. ONE TWO THREE I’m [...]

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  Carrara Enjoys The Sun In Her New Washstall

  Carrara walked into her new wash stall and enjoy a rinse off on this warm winter’s day! I grabbed a quick shot and now realized I should have waited until I donned her Draper Equine Therapy cooler and anti-sweat sheet. We started this ride, rinse, Draper routine at Anky’s and I’m enjoying keeping it up here at our home stable!

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  Joel And His Baby Girl (And The Irony)

  Every afternoon, evening, late-night (depending upon the Marine Corps requirements for that particular “work day”) Joel comes home and the dogs know the sound of his car as most dogs do and as most dogs do they completely freak out that he’s back as if it’s been eons since they’ve seen him. It’s definitely fun for me as while I’m not jumping up and down wagging my tail, I am excited to see him too. One particular night Zita was [...]

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  Zita, J&N Structures And Reconfiguring Fences

  While I was training with Anky, I took plenty of mental notes about how they did things like feeding schedule, turning out in fields, what type of stalls, footing, fencing and in general how they had their set-up operating. Of course this is just part of my MO when I’m at top barns and I love to see how the best facilities organize their horses lives. Of course my all time favorite public USA place is in the heart of [...]

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