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Winterizing Your Barn

Although we have already experienced the first taste of this year’s winter, there is still time to prepare your facility for the cold Canadian weather ahead. Countless precautions and alterations can be made in order to better prepare your farm

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Summer’s Coming!

I gave my father his first vizsla in 1969. We’ve had these wonderful dogs in our family ever since. Bill and I bought our first vizslas in 1988. They were Summer and Rip (sister and brother). Believe me when I …

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Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Joyful Kwanza, or Seasons Greetings! Whatever you’re celebrating this time of year, Luc and I wish you all the best. We hope that 2015 is full of hope, happiness and a whole lot of horses!

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Bill’s Home for the Holidays…

Turns out Bill is taking this week off for the Holidays. He came into the house this morning after mucking out and announced, “Spring Song stood at the stall door and wouldn’t let me in to clean her stall.” (right…)…

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Dress the Part

I am finally starting to look the part of a real rider. This week I broke in my new purple half chaps (not the most professional or mature choice, I admit) and a sleek pair of black full seat winter …

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Winnie Raises Mind Readers

I’m heading to the barn with paints and canvasses for the horses. It’s above zero and the paints should be OK at this temperature. Problem is: there are six horses in the lower barn and I have five canvasses. I’ll …

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You’re doing what?!?

You’re doing what?!?

People give you the side eye when you tell them you can’t participate in dinners out/girls’ trips/any other ‘normal’ social engagement because you are busy training to ride semi-feral horses across Mongolia.