By: Fun and Games with Winnie

We videotaped the lessons Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The temperature was COLD. The wind howled. It was damp. Sitting still, holding the camera motionless, zooming in on the subject…all very challenging in those weather conditions. When Monday

A talented friend of ours, Robb Roberts, created a prototype for the floor piano. He put a hinge at the front attaching a piece of wood the width of a key extending onto the key. He also placed a round …

Bob, our farrier, was here yesterday. As I stood there holding each horse my mind easily drifted back to when they first arrived here as weanlings. Trimming then was very entertaining! Nowadays Zelador and Zeloso are pleasantly boring.

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Saturday Bill and I rode the boys. He remarked several times that Zelador and Zeloso (born in 2004) had matured beautifully this past year. I mentioned that Christi McQuaker commented Friday that when horses became six years old, things improved!&

I sent Bill to a Frank Bell clinic (Nov. 7-14) near Tucson, Arizona.

Obviously he’s enjoying it! The deal is: I go next year for this clinic and Bill goes for the “advanced” clinic. Usually they’re back-to-back at th

Bill returned from a week-long Frank Bell Clinic near Tuscon, Arizona. He enjoyed the ride around the mountain and the team penning, and, of course, riding several times each day! He said there was a brindle coloured cow that liked …

During August we decided to raise money for Toronto Cat Rescue. Within a few days of that decision Amanda and Alex started training the barn cats to perform in the show. To everyone’s amazement the cats started learning tricks. The …

Here are the Men Doing Dressage at the fundraiser October 17th. As our announcer Kenneth Hodges said, “You don’t see this every day… and there’s a reason for that.”

By: Fun and Games with Winnie