I promised a post on all the good stuff that has happened last week and I’ve shared some of it already- a gathered up, soft horse that gave me a correct, beautiful lead change when I asked for it. But what I haven’t shared about is rides 2, 3 and 4 on Gump’s little brother, [...]
After reading the comments from folks the other day, and believing, myself, that what I do truly want is a horse that can be used to do everything, NOT just run the barrels I have been riding with a different mindset. What I want is something really broke, that eventually could become a true bridle [...]
I’m not going to show you video from last night’s barrel race. At least not the video of me. Kelsey made a really good run of 17.9 something in her youth run and ended up third. For me, it was just a disaster. I’m not sure why it fell apart like it did. But it [...]
I think my readership must be down. Or I’m boring and no one has anything to say about anything I write, because I don’t write about anything I THINK any more. Ian for one did comment on that a few weeks ago. It could be down because I don’t comment on other blogs right now, [...]
Zach spent the morning in the hay field yesterday; and while he made round bales, I started laundry and then went to the barn to ride. I had two horses ridden by noon, and shortly after that he got back. We had a quick lunch and then rode a Nuke and a Banjo. After that [...]
I cannot believe another week has flown by so quickly! Next Saturday, my sister comes for a visit. I’m excited she’s coming! The sad part is I’m not excited that she is going to be in South Dakota on the day that she should have been getting married. The best part- that the stupid asshole [...]
Yesterday was a great day! It started with some fabulous entertainment from Zach and Kesley who argued about how best to build a bigger round-pen. In the end it got done, with lots of laughing, some zinger one-liners and smart ass comments from the resident smart ass #1 (zach) and smart ass #2 (Kelsey). At [...]
Kelsey had some great runs this weekend. She placed fourth in the youth class on Thursday night in Dupree (where she ran her fastest time so far this summer), and then Friday night at Rapid City she won 6th in the 4D which was good for a $73 check. Needless to say she was absolutely [...]
Here is video from the weekend starting with Thursday night’s run. I won’t show you Friday’s run because Gump fell going around the first, and the rest of the run went down the toilet. The ground in Rapid was really deep, and he really struggled with it. And as much as I hate to admit [...]
Meet my newest project (ok, so there’s a lot of projects here but this one is special), Dx Jurassic Classic, or Dino as we call him. He is a half brother (by a different daddy) to my barrel horse, and favorite gelding of all time, Gump. Can you see the resemblance? Yesterday he had his [...]
