Tonga
Tony (JC name Tonga) is a 6 year old, 16.1 hand gelding. He’s quite a character and will be going into work shortly. He’s super cute, but takes the world’s worst photos. I’ve tried hundreds of times. I caught him here after a bath, and he mostly looks like a horse, so I’m going with ...
Wild and Royal
16.3 chestnut gelding, Roy is 7 years old and taking to his new life beautifully. So far he loves going out, and has discovered jumping crossrails to be great fun.
The usual
Finally got all feet trimmed. Poor Tamio has been coming out every single week. But, feet grow in the spring. Just the way it is. Now he gets a couple weeks off before we’ve got to do it all again. Speaking of doing it all over again, my wonderful vets got Potomac Horse Fever vaccines ...
Finally have something to say
Today, Roy cantered! and jumped! If you can call a 12 inch crossrail “jumping.” He has a lovely rocking horse canter, and didn’t even think about stopping or going around the rails. J3 and I set a bunch up all over the ring, so that pretty much every time you turned a corner, you had ...
Just tossing this out there,
But when did it become socially acceptable to wear one’s pajamas in public? Farrier stood me up twice today. I’m going home for tack cleaning therapy.
Hey, did I mention they are predicting more snow?
Yeah, got two inches Sunday/Monday, had a high of 37 today, and now they (who are “they” anyway? I’d like to have a chat) are predicting another deluge of wet, heavy snow? What happened to spring? If I catch up with Phil, I’m gonna have me some groundhog barbeque. Rotten little rodent. So, everything here ...
I don’t even remember my login info
It has been so long since I posted anything. Well, we were without power for four days after a particularly nasty snow storm. Yep, snow in Virginia. We got ten inches of very wet, heavy snow that took down a lot of power lines and trees. So, it has almost melted, the ring was almost ...
ROY STEERS!
Man, it’s just like the cartoon where the little light bulb goes on over someone’s head. He finally got it. Do I have a porsche? No. It’s more like a 1955 Buick, but it’s working! He finally realized that there might be another interpretation to reins. They might not mean “rearrange Kim’s face” or “stop ...
Just in case anyone wants to know
why I keep my job, it’s just that very often something so beautiful happens I don’t want to leave (oh, yeah, I kinda like taking care of ponies, too). Honestly, before I got to Orange I had moved 18 times in 12 years. Staying put was never my strong point. No reason. I just kept ...
Roy has an admirer
Turns out Roy has an admirer. Diane came to visit him on Sunday (good to see you again!), and she states she has been following the blog to keep up with Roy (not me? Totally hurt…). So from now on I will try to mention Roy when I get around to typing. He has to ...
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