Life on the Horse Farm

The photo here generated a grand variety of reactions yesterday.  My first reaction was- Andrea, look at what you’re wearing!  Others were more snickering, with comments like, Yeah right- like you two didn’t plan this. I mean really.  What are the chances that two people who work together in the same place would wake up [...]

As sure as Spring comes around each year I get requests from students here at the farm that they are interested in some barn work.  Kids working on farms is as traditional and American as say baseball and apple pie.   For a time this year it looked like that traditional would be against the law. [...]

When you spend time walking around an event like the Equine Affaire you get to see up close and personal how the marketing wheels in the horse industry are turning. I suppose it didn’t take a marketing genius to come up with this one: a pink manure spreader.    The facts are pretty clear.  Women [...]

I’m the first to admit that when the steamy summer heat bears down on us I become next to useless.  Blogging is my first thing in the morning activity.  Sits right there with my first cup of coffee.  Get up, get coffee, blog (when not enough coffee in the system, the blogging typos increase proportionately, [...]

We’re always telling our students to make sure you pick your horses feet before riding.  Why does it matter so much?  Take a look at this photo. This is a rock wedged in Gamine’s foot sideways.  What you can’t see is that the rock is actually considerably thicker than her sole so that when she [...]