2019 Blogger Gift Exchange
One of my favorite parts of the holiday season is the annual blogger gift exchange. Tracy from Printable Pony is awesome and does the leg work of matching people up – thank you Tracy! I have met some of the…
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Latest Posts
Back in the Saddle
Obviously I’ve still been riding since Maestro left, but aside from going to try 3 horses, I hadn’t been jumping at all. The cute appendix I’ve been riding for a friend really needed some flatwork assistance (which I love doing)…
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What Came After, Pt. 2
Starting in July Maestro and I began really struggling. Looking back, my stress and subsequent grief seemed to only add to our issues. P and Stampede always helped me relax and forget my stresses by riding. For some reason Maestro…
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What Came After, Pt. 1
So obviously I’ve been missing a bit. Life has been a bit difficult – a bit sad, a bit crazy. I’ve still posted on Instragram a fair amount, so if you’ve been following along there you have some idea of what…
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Sick Pony, a conclusion
In Part 2, Stampede was being switched from Baytril to SMZ’s and Excede based on biopsy’s of his right hind leg scabs showing staph. Vets were not particularly confident about this as all horses pretty much have staph on them,…
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In memory of my favorite special needs horse
Gator Stampede – April 28, 2001 to August 7, 2019 I don’t think anyone can dispute that Stampede above all else was always special. Sometimes that special wasn’t in the way I would prefer, but he was none the less….
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Sick Pony, Part 2
When we left off, I was waiting for culture results on some punch biopsies done on Stampede’s right hind leg. While the results weren’t super helpful, they did change our treatment direction. The only bacteria that showed up was staph,…
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Sick Pony
Back on May 20th I came out in the morning to find Stampede starting a cellulitis flare up in his right hind. He usually has at least one a year, and we had one right around Christmas previously. So I…
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25 Questions
1. What is the first thing you do when you get to the barn? Boarding barn – Say hi to Maestro and give him a carrot, Home – Usual start on whatever task I came out for View this post on…
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Stoney Ridge @ HR June 2019 Show
Yep back to back weekends of showing, but this past weekend was at the home barn. Since Maestro had just worked hard at the WAG show, he had Monday and Tuesday off then I flatted him around on Wednesday. Of course…
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