July 25, 2006 Tonka is still on vacation. I really need to be working with him on hoof trimming practice, but I haven't been. It's...

July 20, 2006 I got checked by the BLM today. The guy called last night and came out this morning. He was very pleased with how well-behav...

July 16, 2006 This morning I went out to medicate Soxy and Tonka volunteered to come into the inner pen, where we often do training. So I lo...

July 15, 2006 Tonka went out for a walk - Wait a minute. I think I failed to report how he wore the saddle for the first time the other day...

July 13, 2006 What a wonderful day! I finally got up early enough to work with my boy. We sacked out with a plastic grocery bag on the end...

July 10, 2006 Tonka met the vet today. Soxy needed to be checked out for her cough so I had a bunch of other stuff done too. So Tonka got ...

July 4, 2006 Well, the horses lived through the firework ordeal. Lots of galloping around and a couple of booboos. This was also Tonka...

July 1, 2006 I got back from Hawaii today. Here are some pics for you to enjoy. Have petted all the horses, dogs, cats, and sheep, and swee...

June 26, 2006 Last night John and I took Tonka for a walk. He was kind of more in my space than usual. Not the entire time, but enough tha...

June 25, 2006 This isn't mustang related, really, but it was horse time and we had a blast! I invited Kaia and Della out to ride with ...

June 23, 2006 Today is very busy, there isn't time to play with the ponies. So I didn't take him for a walk this morning. As I was...

June 22, 2006 - Day 33 Last night I just couldn't sleep. Which is weird for me, normally I can fall asleep within 5 minutes no matter w...

June 21, 2006 - Day 32 It's been one month! He came home on the 21st of May. Pretty cool. Seems like a lot longer, like he's alwa...

June 20, 2006 Here are some pictures of Amy (my sister) working Tonka yesterday. I worked him a little too but had the shakes from allergy ...

Lifesavers Wild Horse Rescue News and Events Check out this new blog (the above text is a link to it) about a new mustang sanctuary. It sta...

I should talk more about introducing a horse to a saddle. How I would do it anyway. There are lots of ways to get them used to the existen...

June 16, 2006 Man am I tired! He made me work this morning. We've done the saddle blanket thing already but for some reason he wasn...

June 15, 2006 - Day 26 What a wonderful morning! I managed to get up early and get my butt out of bed to go play with my horse. I haltered...

June 14, 2006 - Day 25 Wow! Check out the difference in him today versus his second day home. He's a new horse! I so cannot wait to s...

June 9, 2006 - Day 20 Not much time today to play with my boy. I stood with him while he ate his packer pellets, to protect him from Coda w...