While it was raining last week I went shopping. My goal was to find objects to use in the scent discrimination game. My first stop was the Canadian Tire Store in Bolton, Ontario. I was cruising down the aisles looking …

The past weeks we’ve seen several black squirrels busily preparing for winter. There’s a walnut tree near the southwest part of the farm. At first the squirrels were carrying one nut at a time along the fenceline, heading east. Then …

Saturday, Bill and I took Kye to demonstrate liberty and trick training at a fundraiser for Heaven Can Wait held south of Beeton.

Kye had a real challenge. He was in a round pen, which was about six feet away …

Sunday morning we shipped the boys to Grelo Farms for the Headwaters Stable Tour. We were asked to put together something that took five to eight minutes. We entered the arena and Zelador rolled out the red carpet (yep, bought …

Zelador, Zeloso and Kye have played the first three notes of “Three Blind Mice” on the three-note piano. Yippee!!! We’re going to add something to the keys: a round plastic disc that extends beyond each key, towards the horse, just …

Day one for 15-year-old Blue Executive. I prepared the carpet runner with bits of carrot placed about every 12 inches as I rolled up the carpet. I had no lead line on Blue and asked him to come to the …

Every morning I lead Marcus (the yearling Dutch Warmblood colt) into the arena. For the last few weeks I’ve set up the small orange cones made out of rubber, placing a piece of carrot under each of the four cones. …

First of all:

I was thinking…Allen Kalpin is reading the book about Jim Key and he suggested that our autumn fundraiser have The Beautiful Jim Key as its central theme. This morning I thought of creating a classroom for the …

This morning:

For the first time in a long time I took Zeloso to the arena before I worked with his brother.

As I was setting up the blocks to create a goal on each side of the arena he …

My DREAM of creating a horse-friendly piano is on the brink of happening. I’ve been trying for over eighteen months to figure out how to do this. I’ve learned quite a bit. For one thing, the horses are happy to …

Because the Beautiful Jim Key could pick up something in a container with water in it we started that “trick” yesterday. The Beautiful Jim Key picked up a silver dollar. In 1900ish the silver dollar was bigger than the ones …

Friday, September 2.
At 2:00 Christi McQuaker rode with me. She’d been in Kentucky for three weeks showing her horse. She received my emails about the boys, the jump rope and BIG hula hoop, but hadn’t see them in real …

I would love to figure out a way to create three notes for the horses to play. I think I need an engineer or a very innovative person! My PhD Physicist is not cooperating…

The idea is: create something that …