Going to see a movie about wild horses in the Canadian Rockies, I wasn’t sure that I wanted to go see a movie that showed horses dying, being chased and basically struggling to survive. I ended up going – thanks to encouragement from my blog boss, and I ended up learning a lot and thinking [...]

Happy New Year! I hope everyone’s holiday season was good. Christmas can be a challenging time and I am always looking for a little reason for it to be special or heartwarming, to see past the gifts, the overeating and the stress. This year I did get to do something special. Something I had always [...]

Well it is mid December and we haven’t lost our sanity yet. I met with my “horsey girlfriends” for lunch a few days ago. We live in a small town with good lunch restaurants that allow us to preorder, then rush in, talk like crazy, eat and rush off again. We all have full time jobs [...]

This is my favourite freestyle! I love the music – especially turned up and I love the roughness of the performance – there is more emotion than the perfect test of the gold medal winner. Here is the link to the TV broadcast on CBC in English if you would like to see more. CBC.ca [...]

Thought I would like to share some of my favourite horse books with everyone with the hopes that you will share some of yours with me! I want to add more to my “favourites” list. No violence please, a bit of trash OK, I like them better when the horse or the dog don’t die [...]

It had been raining but we were intent on riding into Sundance Lodge in Banff National Park. Slickered up, we headed along the fire road and decided to take the trail through the woods instead of staying on the fire road. Jett and I were leading Jim on Nacho. The trail narrowed, got muddy and [...]

The $100,000 Encana Cup at this year’s Masters at Spruce Meadows was thrilling as it is every year. The stadium was packed, our butts were numb from sitting on the grass and the under 12 crowd were leaning on the brick wall watching the horses line up for the ribbon ceremony. One little girl was [...]

WEG 2010 we made it there and back! We had a great adventure driving our 30 year old camper truck (Virgil) the 9,000 klm’s to and from Lexington, Kentucky for the games. We paid the $20/day to park, the $25  each to get in and then on another day the $50 each for a cramped seat [...]

We went for a trailride today and guess what? – it was uneventful! I’m not saying that it was dull or boring – far from it – but it was a lovely ride in a lovely place without any adventures.  We didn’t lose a shoe 2 hours from home. We (I) didn’t get tossed because [...]

Oh no! Today I needed gloves on to feed! The horses are starting to get a velvet look to them. I am starting to think about blankets.