They say horsemanship is a journey, and mine has taken several turns along the way. As such, I’ve cleaned out the barn! Which means that you can benefit from years and years and years of my collecting! Why am I selling all of these things, you ask? Well, mostly it’s because I haven’t used any [...]
Several weeks ago (I know, I know, I’m way, way, way, way, way behind in my blogging) I got to go visit most of our yearling to 3yo fillies, who live with a few of our random geldings. It was a beautiful day for photographs, and I’m going to share them with you. This little [...]
I’m coming to you from the Lone Star State this week! I had to make a quick trip down here, which explains a lot of my absence. Not all of it mind you, but part of it, to be sure. Most readers to this blog know that on the ranch we brand cattle every spring. [...]
In the past two days I’ve ridden three different horses for a minimum of 25 miles. Zach and I moved a couple hundred pairs of cattle. Cleared our AI pasture (named for the fact that it used to house the cattle they’d artificially inseminate), the Saddle Horse Pasture (because that’s where the saddle horses live), [...]
In the previous installment, we covered the basic horse colors: Bay, Black, Brown, Sorrel, Chestnut. Now we’ll delve into some of the more complicated colors. Not that they’re typically hard to distinguish, but they’re more complicated from a genetic standpoint. Here’s what colors we’ll learn: Dun, Buckskin, Red Dun, Grullo, Palomino. We have no shortage [...]
This is has been a summer of firsts here for the kids. Nine year old Ty has been doing a lot more riding this summer. So much more that he even had his first ride in the pasture to help us move cows a few weeks ago. He rode his sister’s steady mount, Pommel. He [...]
Please be patient with me. I’m having a world of computer problems this week; in fact I’m coming to you live, from the cowboy’s computer because mine is, well, quite ill. Which isn’t good because my life is on that computer. I have so many photos and stories to share, and the rest of the [...]
Just when I think the days can’t get any more beautiful, and the colts couldn’t possibly be any prettier, and that my photography couldn’t possibly get any better, a couple weeks ago I had one of the best days behind a camera. Ever. I am undoubtedly one of the most blessed people on the planet. [...]
This was a weekend to be remembered for many years to come. And not altogether in a good way. Friday morning I discovered that my chicks had started hatching. My favorite black hen, had hatched her one egg- with a big fat little black chick. He was following her around and was sooooooooo adorable! A [...]
