I got home this afternoon to find a note on the door:
The horses got out into the property next door. I’ve gone to help
Wendy was gone, but the girls were home. We all got in the car and drove over.
The man next door, who we often see training horses in Western riding, had penned […]

The slugs are also popular in Polish.

Fred and Jackie bought a nice big 4-horse trailer a couple of weeks back. I rode with Fred to a farm up north of Nacogdoches to pick up the trailer two weekends ago; it’s about a three hour trip up there from here. It was weird riding through Nacogdoches. I had never been through that […]

I’ve been experimenting with one-minute videos. Here’s something I put together last week:

I’m planning to post this to the Making Movies blog sometime this week.

Bryn’s been trying to canter at riding lessons, but without a lot of success. She’s made some false starts, but not yet anything that counts as a smashing success. Until today, that is. Riding Dancer, who is a small but very eager mare, Bryn cantered several times.

You will need QuickTime to view this video.

What kind of horse did we get?

A quarter horse, of course…

Meet Sunny. Sunny is our latest foster dog from the Houston Sheltie Sanctuary. She’s a Katrina refugee from somewhere in Louisiana. When she was brought into the program she was so covered in mats so dense that the only way to get rid of them was to shave her body. Sunny is about five years […]

I’ve seen this several times before, and I always like it:
Help me to be the person my dog thinks I am.
Seen at By the Bayou.

We took a bunch of pictures in December and early January; here are some of the best.

For the first few days we (the Salmons and the Thompsons) had the horses they were stabled in temporary quarters. They were… well, I’ll be kind and say it was not the Horsie Hilton. But then again, what is?

Laredo […]

The Houston Sheltie Sanctuary is auctioning this beatiful quilt to raise funds:

The handmade quilt was generously donated by Denise Copeland, a textile artist who resides in Chesapeake, Virginia. The quilt’s front is appliquéd, and the ink drawings on the front are Denise’s orginial drawings based upon two of her girls, Raphaella and Winnie. The quilt’s […]

Click below to read the story of how Fred, Wendy, and I worked our tails off at the stable today while Jackie was off getting her nails frosted, or having her hair polished or something…

HA! Got you Jackie! Just kidding, of course, mio amico. I know you read these pages and I thought I’d have […]

Yesterday was my last day of work until January 3rd. Today I’m going to help Fred clean out the shed at the place the horses are going to stay. I hesitate to call it a stable, because it’s really just a large shed, but it’s got enough shelter to keep the horses out of the […]