Okay, so I lied. I'm back. Hi! I really shouldn't be sitting here. But I've got a blogging problem. And I'm okay with th...

So I had to share with y'all, because although it's weird and funny, I figured other horse people would understand. I stopped by a l...

We had another good ride tonight. I took Tonka out to the round pen and we practiced side-passing and giving to the bit. As a side note - h...

Bella's hind feet are trimmed! I couldn't leave that left hind to continue to flare, so I just went ahead and did it. I even pulle...

Today I went over to my sister's to ride. She's not an instructor or anything, but she knows more than I do and she loves to train ...

If you go WAY back almost to the beginning of this blog, you'll read about my bidding experience when I got Tonka, and how I almost had ...

Walking through the ditch - I love his expression. We got to ride this evening! It was fun. The tarp was scary again, with me on his back....

Well, I did try to upload a video. Once again it didn't work. Wasn't very interesting anyway, but I thought it was cute. Maybe on...

Well, it looks like we're going to go to the "2nd Annual Mountain Trail Novice Explorer Challenge" at the Oregon Horse Center ...

Sorry I haven't been writing much. I seem to have blogging lulls. I realized a few days ago that we've only had Bella for 4 weeks! ...

Sorry I haven't been writing much. I seem to have blogging lulls. I realized a few days ago that we've only had Bella for 4 weeks! ...

Guess who got a pedicure! Bella! Just one, but I'll do the other front hoof when Liam gets on the bus. (I wasn't quite done when ...

The mustangs had the day off today, but we did have fun with the domestics. Check out my other blog www.horsetales.blogspot.com.

Well, tonight I not only picked up all four of Bella's feet, but I picked them all out too! Ooh, I've been wanting soooo bad to s...

Today we played dress-up. Well, actually we did some real work too, but dress-up is more fun. Here Tonka is modeling the latest fashion, Bl...

Tonka and I finally got to go for a good ride again yesterday. We went with my sister and a friend of hers. It was a gorgeous day, and a r...

Good things are afoot!

Well, today was definitely a breakthrough day. She picked up all four feet, gave to pressure on the halter, switched eyes with a person wal...

Check out the new duds! She was SO relieved to have that cumbersome and constricting heavy halter off. It took a while, but with the halter...

Bella is getting better all the time. Today she was more relaxed. On the left side today I rubbed her a lot, worked my way up to her poll,...