Tag: Horses

  • Dressage at the Walk!

    Dressage at the Walk!

    Today I had another lesson with Lynsey Rowan. It may look like riding a horse at the walk is like sitting on an ambulatory armchair. But nothing could be farther from the truth! If I am riding in a lesson with Lynsey I am doing all the same things I would be doing at the…

  • LensArtists Photo Challenge #254

    LensArtists Photo Challenge #254

    “Awakening is not changing who you are but discarding who you are not.”Deepak Chopra

  • Lens Artists Challenge : Fragments.

    Lens Artists Challenge : Fragments.

    This weeks’ Lens Artists Challenge is “fragments” My response is just one photo created from fragments of other photos.

  • Book Review: Riding Through My Life. HRH the Princess Royal.

    Book Review: Riding Through My Life. HRH the Princess Royal.

    If you are a horse person you will love this book as I did. If you are not , you will find an interesting read about a very unique woman .

  • I’m Home!

    I’m Home!

    I was discharged from the hospital yesterday and sleeping in my own bed last night. The surgeon was very happy with how the surgery had gone. All my vitals were normal and so I was released! YAY! I now have a two wheeled walker which is not my favorite!! I cannot carry anything while using…

  • What Moves Me?

    What Moves Me?

    Michele Lee of My Inspired Life announced a blog challenge at the end of April. We were challenged to write about a physical activity that we enjoy and write a post with a photo of the activity and write (not to exceed 300 words) a poem or prose to describe it. I doubt anyone reading…

  • CFFC: Catching people unaware.

    CFFC: Catching people unaware.

    These photos are my response to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge From the top 1.the mounted band of HM Horse Guards, 2.Changing of the horse guards,3. Guard at side of the Mall for Trooping of the Color rehearsal,4.Me brushing Biasini’s tail at a show, 5.coach Belinda Trussell watching one of her students compete at a show…

  • Rain!Rain!Rain!

    Rain!Rain!Rain!

    “A rainy day is an equlaizer. You don’t know what’s going to happen. You just take what you can get.” Charlie Harvey

  • I knew it could happen but…

    I knew it could happen but…

    ” If this was a 5 year old horse I could say he absolutely will come back. But this horse at 18? He may not come back.” This is what the vet said after looking at the ultrasound images of Biasini’s injured leg. I knew that as a ‘senior’ horse he might not heal up…

  • Book review: For the love of the horse by Mark Rashid.

    Book review: For the love of the horse by Mark Rashid.

    I first heard of this book from fellow blogger Mary Lynne Carpenter in a review of this book on her blog “The Backyard Horse Blog.” I am glad I decided to get the book as I found it very interestng and there were some of the topics covered that were important to me and Biasini.…

  • Biasini Speaks:I’m Home!

    Biasini Speaks:I’m Home!

    Well Dear Humans I am back home. I had a long trip on the big horse transport to get here but I had a good travelling companion. Her name is Heidi and we chatted away a lot. She told me she had an injury too. But hers is worse than mine because she broke a…

  • Book Review: In Plain Sight by Anna Rashbrook

    Book Review: In Plain Sight by Anna Rashbrook

    What ever has happened in the past is always subject to memories,interpretations. and reactions. A writer can take events and twist and change them to his own will. And this is what I am doing now using the past to create a new story that holds on to the turth as far as it can…