Creating a home on (and off) the range
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Before I get in the saddle, I place my hand on Penny’s smooth, golden cheek and whisper a prayer for us. Lord, please help us work together well today and connect the way good partners should. And keep us both calm and safe. Amen. Standing on the mounting block with a tangle of knots in…
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It all started on Good Friday morning. The Fix-It Farmer left the house early on a mystery errand. When he came back, he asked daughter Rachel and me to help him unload something from his pickup. Thinking that he’d purchased a heavy piece of equipment, I begrudgingly pulled on my work boots. I was confused…
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How do you respond when one of your worst fears comes true? This post is a deep dive on my first fall off my horse: how it happened, what recovery looks like, plans for future horse activities, and how failure can help us become better (a lesson all of us could use, even if we…
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This story begins with a bit of romance. My hubby surprised me with a 30-year-old horse trailer. He bought it on a rainy night at a ranch east of Dallas, known for offering massive, gorgeous Friesian horses as photography props for quinceaneras, which are Latin American celebrations of a girl’s 15th birthday, marking the transition…
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For my next shopping day, I finally had an experienced horse person with me, one of the young teacher/trainers from the barn where I take lessons. At 16, she already knows a lot about horses and seems to have a natural knack for working with them. If you missed the first two installments of my…
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For those of you who missed my last post, I’m shopping for my first horse, and I’m taking you along for the ride. I went out again on my own without a teacher/trainer to try horses at two locations in one day. My first stop was a ranch where they sell a lot of horses,…
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Notes from my first horse shopping experience More than a year ago, at the urging of my loving, supportive hubby, I started taking riding lessons in Western horsemanship at a local barn recommended by a church friend. The goal: deciding if my life-long dream of owning a horse was still something I could realistically pursue….
