This heat wave just doesn’t seem to be going away. Sunday during our Working Equitation Clinic the really smart people rode before 11:00. I snuck in a half-our session from 8:30 to 9:00. My scheduled spot was 2:00 to 3:00.…

I cannot believe how quickly the summer is passing us by. It seems the older I get, the faster time goes. Does anyone else notice this?

It’s almost time for back to school and if you are parents like me, …

My, how the Internet can be useful these days! I do media advisory activism work sometimes behind the scenes – land conservation, headwaters, groundwater, clearcutting forestry – and yes, stacking up information about horse welfare issues, and Alberta wildies. The …

I love those giant steps forward!!!! Today I took my box with the letter ‘A’ on it and added two cylinders, one red and one blue. One had the letter ‘E’ on paper taped to the cylinder and the other …

I Googled “Talented Horses” and on the page there was one strip of photos of “Talented Horses”. You will NOT believe who was in the first photo!!!! It was the classic picture taken in our arena with Sue and Zelador …

The riding gods were smiling down on me this week. Luc’s abscess, and it was definitely an abscess, blew earlier in the week. It came out his heel and left a big ugly hole, but he was much happier and …

Today’s letter ‘A’ was lovely. Once again I presented to one horse after another (this allows plenty of time to eat the treat between touching the ‘A’). I did the wooden letter and the boxes. This time I used the …

Today McGuire Fencing came to put in a fence dividing off a portion of our middle paddock. The new section will have permanent Working Equitation articles in it. Yippee!

The fencers also replaced the sagging, old west side of the …

I received this email from a friend.

“…and this horse next door will not stop neighing and it is a loud, long neigh. He is beautiful, but I could use a break. I hope they bring his friend back soon!”…

Zelador let me know that he LOVES the blue box (the letter ‘A’ is on the green box). When I asked him to touch the letter ‘A’ Zelador picked up the blue box, tossed it, picked it up again, brought …

From a friend who is also challenging herself to teach her horses letters of the alphabet:
She’s working on her pony, Timbit, picking out the letters to spell the word ‘cat’.

“I stuck Tim’s three letters in the bucket of …

Here are the acts that The Beautiful Jim Key performed back in the 1890’s and those first six years of 1900. A movie is being made about this horse and his breeder and trainer, William Key. William Key was born …

I used the wooden letter today and everyone instantly touched it. I’m thinking that instead of drawing a letter on the cylinder I’ll attach a wooden letter (prototype) to one cylinder and see if the horses are safe when picking …

I’m using the ‘A’ on the wall made out of chalk and the ‘A’ I printed in Magic Marker on the light green box. Every horse went to the box or the wall when asked. I’m still positioning myself relatively …

When I declared at the beginning of the summer, “I’ll be needing my weekends off”, I think I might have been misunderstood. Perhaps what I should have said was, “I’ll be needing every weekend off for the entire summer to …