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May 18

Horse meat, would you eat it?

Horse market of years gone by

Horse market of years gone by

I have been horse crazy ever since I can remember. When I turned six I was finally allowed to take pony riding lessons. In my early teens I saw a documentary on horse slaughter. I still have the images tattooed in my memory. Horses tight  to each other and then shot one after another, horses walking up a ramp into the house of death, dreadful transport to a slaughter house on a boat, half dead trampling over each other, broken legs and dead horses. Those memories I have not been able to erase. So being the wimp that I am,  I do not want to add new tattoos to my memory. My imagination is vivid enough and can see without my eyes having to witness it. Read more

Apr 30

Queens Day and Pony Games

jumping on

One of the best days of the year, almost better than Christmas and birthdays used to be Queens day. Queens day was special when I was young. All the pony clubs and riding schools from the area came to the soccer fields and we had great silly competitions. I think they might be the English pony Gymkhana Read more

Jan 29

My Training Plan for Beau and Me This Year

Will Beau start looking like his dad Rhodium?

Will Beau start looking like his dad Rhodium?

I need to set some goals. Not to worry, I am just a simple amateur. But I want to get past this freewheeling stage. He is old enough to grow, to reach the next level. He may be tall, relatively weak in the hind quarters, this all will not get better until we seriously address the muscles there.  Read more

Nov 13

No Shades of Grey

Fifty Shades of Grey

I totally missed the best seller book Fifty Shades of Grey and have been hearing a lot about it now that the movie is about to be released. Should read the book and see the film, sounds very steamy. I can’t believe I missed all of that. But those aren’t the shades of grey I mean here. Read more

Nov 6

Lived by Life rather than Living Life

Always face the direction where the treats may come from

From time to time life takes over and I feel like I loose control. I am no longer living my life, but my life is living me. And although I hate routines, at times like these I desperately true to regain my normal routines so I can gain control of my life. Maybe life isn’t meant to be controlled, but we humans wish to cling on with all our might. Maybe the control we perceive to have is purely fictional, yet we read it as having control, because that is what we so desperately want. Be the captain of your own ship, set your own course. Read more

Oct 17

A Bit of Pony or Horsey Fun

Ponies

I ran across a piece by French & Saunders being grown up pony girls. It is just so funny and reminds me of the time when I was still very young pretending to ride a horse, galloping around the yard. I wanted to share this video with you. Read more

Oct 3

Keeping Negative Vibes Outside

Playtex support

How do you do that? Keep your sanity day in day out. Not letting worrying take out all the fun in life, how do you do that? Living in the here and now, that slogan sounds really simple, simple in theory, but in practice my mind takes a different road and most of the time all I can do is follow. Read more

Sep 12

Routines and Horses, Dogs, Cats and Me

I hate routines yet routines keep me sort of sane. I love not sticking to them and making mundane life a little more exiting. My animals fare well with a bit of a routine, they seem to stick to it. Read more

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