*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* This is my Blog…and I can write about anything I want….. And I want to talk about rocks….. I like rocks….. I’ve always liked rocks….. Even when I was little…I liked rocks….. …..my Father liked rocks too….. We were always picking up precious rocks…and showing them to each other….. Maybe I inherited my love of all kinds of rocks from my Dad….. I’m looking at an assortment of rocks right now…next to my…
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* It wasn’t easy….. But we found one….. Our past blacksmith quit on us….. After Claire and then Brave passed…a little bit of time went by…but not much….. When I recontacted him…our farrier said he’d been ill…after an exposure to glyphosates…(not the first time we’ve heard that)….. ~~~Don’t Get Me Started On Round-Up and Monsanto and Bayer~~~ My farrier had a single occurrence Grande Mal seizure…and after that…he decided he was only going to…
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* The Hunt Season has begun….. Pepper is still down at Mary Constance’s…but she’s fit enough to go out on several Hunts already….. She really seems to be enjoying herself…she already knows the in’s & out’s of being a Whipper-In’s mount….. It’s a little more complicated than what she would be doing with me….. My Hunt contributions really cap out at how many flasks I can hide all over myself and in my saddlebags……..
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** My daughters had a riding lesson with Mary Constance….. It’s a good start to the New Year….. But there’s a very dark side to riding lessons….. …..the screaming agony of the previously unused muscles….. I don’t envy my daughters the excruciating muscles which are guaranteed to follow…they are assuredly going to limp around with tears in their eyes….. Why is it…if you stop riding…even for the shortest period of time…you end up with…
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** We’ve gone back to collecting hay string again….. Up North…it’s seems to be referred to as hay twine…but it’s the same thing….. We’ve stopped feeding the 900 lbs. compressed alfalfa bales…we’ve returned to the regular square three-string alfalfa bales….. …..that way we can break off “flakes” for Pepper…and have more control over how much she’s eating….. Pepper’s quite the “foodie”….. She vacuums up every stalk and leaf….. We were warned ahead of time…
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** I need to make a disclaimer….. …..!Kids…Don’t Try This At Home!….. Remember my post about bringing Pepper home from the recent Hunt(?)….. And Remember I mentioned that there were a few “hiccups” in getting her home….. …..well…there were….. We ran into a bit of a snag when we were loading Pepper into the trailer….. …..we had known there was (a little bit of) a problem with one (a couple) of the welds on…
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Finally….. After such a long time….. I have a Hunt horse again….. I can’t tell you just how happy that makes me…I can’t stop grinning….. Mary Constance has been Hunting her for me…giving her experience…and mileage….. She told me that she even requested one of her lesson students to get on and off Pepper fifty times…in the clumsiest way possible….. …..the young lady dragged her foot over Pepper’s rump…poked her in the ribs…hung…
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** As we know…this year’s Hunt Season has finally begun….. …..(without me)….. I will get there…I will….. ***To get you ready for this year’s Hunt Season— *****(Click Here for Fox Hunting Terms)***** Mary Constance has been whipping off of Pepper for some of this Season’s beginning Hunts….. …..and that’s a hell of a lot more action than Pepper will ever get with me….. …..(remember…I’m the one who would consider a Fourth Flight in the…
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Alfalfa bales can go bad quickly in Florida’s Humid Hot Summers….. I had purchased what I thought Brave and Pepper would need here for the month of September…and it was delivered on Labor Day….. Which was all fine and good…if things had remained dry here…but…things didn’t….. It’s always a crapshoot in Summer in sunny subtropical Florida…well honestly…it’s not even that….. It’s more of a guarantee that it’s going to be soggy and humid……..
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Here we go….. …..the difference with this year is…I think I might just be ready…(if my breeches still fit)….. This coming 2024-2025 Fox Hunting Season is about to begin….. It starts with Mounted Hound Walks…then progresses to the Business Meeting…then Cubbing Season….. There’s a mare named Pepper that I can Hunt…(of course she’s a Clydesdale)….. Mary Constance has her now…she’ll be introducing her to the foxhounds at the first Mounted Hound Walk….. Hunt…