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Tragedy While Traveling, Accident At The Barn, A Conundrum At The Show! Are You Prepared With A First Aid Kit?

You never know when an accident will happen, most of us have some supplies at the barn, wraps, scissors, tape, someone is bound to have a roll of vetwrap.  What about when you are on the road, or at a show?  I can’t tell you how many people are surprised when I pull a first-aid […]

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Fire In The Field, Fire In The Barn, Fire at The Neighbors, Fire on The Farm.

If you didn’t sing that title in your head with a country music twang, I might not be able to be your friend.  All over the news this week is the California wild fire.  “OMG, that race track video of those horses running around, so tragic.”  Agreed.  Unfortunately, no one is immune to wild fires, […]

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How Tight Can You Turn, What is High Centering, And Other Trailering Debacles.

Well, I asked for suggestions and I got one in the form of a picture on Friday afternoon.  A “Show Dad” that is regularly seen stuck with us ladies at shows sent me a picture of a trailer in a bit of a pickle.  Apparently someone decided to skip the driveway and turn their truck […]

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Why You Need To Know About Harbor Freight and Few Other Frugal Horse Tips.

If you haven’t ever been into a Harbor Freight store, you need to find one.  None near you?  Good news, they are online too.  “Why do I need boat stuff?  What do I need from a Harbor store?  I’m not near a beach, heck I don’t even have a pond.”  Well my friend, they have […]

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Here. We. Go. Another Storm. Another Natural Disaster. Past Experiences, Tips, and Tricks.

The Greater Houston Area is about to get hit with a Tropical depression/storm Hurricane, whatever.  This ain’t my first rodeo.  Since graduating from college, I have been through hurricane Ike, a major barn flood, area floods, and helped with a wildfire. Major Natural Disaster #1:  Many moons ago, shortly after I bought Emma hurricane Ike […]

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Festing with Breyers! Breyerfest Part 2

Soo I meant to put this out the same week as part 1 but life happened. “You mean goats happened.” Yes, our poor goat Donut started showing neurologic symptoms and required round the clock shots. “Pray for donuts, I mean donut.” The good news is that Donut pulled though and is back to doing goat […]

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Dead, Not Dead, Maybe Dead, Happy Easter?

Y’all, my life has been NUTS. SO NUTS, grow nuts, donuts. “I heard donuts, I am here for donuts, especially if you have the blueberry cake donuts.” Life recently has been blueberry cake donuts worthy, that is for sure. So all fall I spent FOREVER For-Ev-ER offshore. 9 weeks on a boat in 4 months […]

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What Had Happened Was #NotDead

Sooo, for those that aren’t my personal friend, I’m pretty sure you thought I died or at least fell off the earth completely. “Nope, don’t delude yourself, no one missed you.” Although I did not get to take a rocketship ride to space, nor did I die, I got pretty remote my friends. My project […]

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He’s Here, the Wee Baby Seamus Has Arrived

In all the spring craziness of horse shows and projects getting ready to go offshore and weird COVID transitions, the Dragon Mare has had her foal. “IT’S THE CUTEST THING EVER!” I might be a bit biased but I agree. True to form, Emma did things her own way and in her own time. No […]

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That Aint No Pocket Change. How The New MERS Rules Affect the Wallet.

Imma be honest here, when I read the new rules being proposed by the USEA, I got super discouraged. I had kind of hoped that my little mare that could, would get me to the prelim level. “Really? Like, REALLY?” Yes really, maybe not pro level or anything but do 2-3 and call it gravy. […]