Some photos from Bryn’s riding lesson a couple of Saturdays back
Bryn and Laredo (AKA Laredo Potato) ready to ride.
 
Bryn trotting Laredo.
 
Madison on her horse Patience. Patience is the big mare I’ve been riding in my lessons, ever since Porsche decided she didn’t like me any more. Patience tends to “bend the wrong way” going around [...]

Steve, DeDe, Kelly, and Erin came to visit us last week. They spent some time here at Pine Gulch, did some shopping in Houston, spent a day in Galveston, then went to San Antonio for a few days before coming back to Pearland on their way home. Here’s a few photos from their day on [...]

Sunday the 4th we went to a “Schooling Horse Trial” at Pine Hill Equestrian Center in Bellville, Texas. Bryn had ridden in this type of event twice before at Pine Hill, but this was her first time to ride our quarter horse Laredo. We’ve had Laredo just over one year, and he’s been in training [...]

Some people make fine furniture. Some build houses and other works of achitecture. Others sculpt.
Me? I build stuff for horses. More specifically, stuff for horses to jump over.
I few weeks ago I posted a photo of the flower box I’d built for Genna at DRTA. Here it is in place on her cross-country course:

 
This rolltop [...]

I spent this past Saturday and Sunday helping my friend and co-worker Roger install a hardwood floor at his new house. Roger and his wife just bought the house and wanted to install some new flooring before they moved in. It’s not actually hardwood, but something called “engineered” hardwood. It’s a composite product like Pergo, [...]

Leigh Ann got the title almost right. I’m not going to write much about my latest misadventure in riding because I don’t want to sound like a broken record. Here are the facts:
We were riding outside on Saturday, and doing some jumping again. I had already made my way around the course once, jumping the [...]

I’ve been taking riding lessons since mid-August, and I’ve been meaning to write about it for some time now. I guess now’s as good a time as any, because last night it began to get fun.
I ride Porsche, a big bay mare with a white blaze up her face and two white socks on her [...]

I took my lunch early this morning to drive back to Pearland and cast my ballot. By leaving early, I was able to avoid the lines; I walked right up to the table and got my access code, a four-digit number printed on a piece of paper. It was my first time to use the [...]

Leigh Ann called me up yesterday and said “We’re going bowling tomorrow after work; you want to go with us?” I used to bowl all the time in high school, but I hadn’t bowled in twenty years. I took her up on it anyway. I couldn’t remember which foot to step off with, or how [...]

Tonight was Bryn’s riding lesson, which she has in a group with three other girls, including Shelby and Cassandra Salmons. The girls were taking turns jumping over an 18-inch jump when one of them did something amazing. Cassandra had just taken her horse over the jump, when she lost her balance and was on her [...]

Went out with Wendy today and picked up a new pair of shoes. What you can’t see from this photo is that these are high-top hiking boots. However, they are not for hiking. Ten points to the first person who can guess what specific activity I bought these for. (My immediate family and Jackie’s excluded [...]

Today’s Hunstville Times has more about why Terry’s Pizza closed shop:
Faced with a lost lease, the death of their father and increasing family demands, the children of Lou Pejza, Terry’s owner, decided last week to shutter the restaurants.
“We determined it was best for the family, especially our mom,” said Carol McBroom, one of Pejza’s five [...]