Showing posts with label thoughts on horsemanship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thoughts on horsemanship. Show all posts
Saturday, August 13, 2011

Change!

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Dear friends and readers, Please note that although I will no longer be continuing to post on High Mountain Horse, I'm still writing...
Tuesday, January 4, 2011

The last of the backyard ponies

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I chose to geld my beautifully bred Arabian stallion so that no one would be pointing a blaming finger at me. So much talk now a days about ...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

Some thoughts on learning horse talk

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And where do we go from here? Tom Dorrance is often quoted as having said, “Listen to the horse. Try to find out what the horse is trying to...
Saturday, February 27, 2010

Pass it on

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I was not raised around horses. Then, I did not know anyone who was. Even fewer have that opportunity today. Just as this did not deter me f...
Saturday, February 20, 2010

Confidence and Knowledge

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We begin in ignorance. Without knowing how little we know, we have complete confidence. A good example of “ignorance is bliss.” A great plac...
Saturday, February 13, 2010

Sitting

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I’m lucky to have the opportunity to work with beginner riders. Each new person is a new opportunity for me to improve not only my teaching ...
Saturday, January 30, 2010

Mid winter thoughts on horsemanship

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We find ourselves now in the deepest hour of winter, the farthest point from riding seasons, the one passed, the one anticipated. Though tho...
Sunday, January 3, 2010

New Years Resolutions

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The start of a new year allows us time and encouragement (read: an excuse) to reflect upon the accomplishments, both large and small, of the...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

An open mind, an open heart

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Not too long ago, I read that a true horseman loves horses. Not one breed of horses. Horses. All horses. Can we doubt this to be so? We ca...
Saturday, December 19, 2009

Beginner's mind for a horseman

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How many times have you been at that point – in horsemanship or anything, for that matter – where you realize the more you learn, the more y...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Baby, it's cold outside

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Come inside, little horse. If I ask him, he will go. He will follow. My little stallion, Flying Crow. What I wanted to do here was lead him ...
Saturday, December 12, 2009

One good horse

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We all have heard such stories… stories of the one good horse , stories of that partner unlike any other. This was the horse that stuck by y...
Thursday, December 3, 2009

A modest proposal in praise of rope halters

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Recently, I read an article putting down the rope halter and comparing it to, seriously, a torture device. First, this made me roll me eyes....
Monday, November 9, 2009

Peace Returns

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In so many ways. A warm spell, perhaps the last until the end of March. Calm, a rest from work, a reprise in play, the pasture is melted out...
Friday, October 9, 2009

Why we love horses

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Why do we love horses? There is something wild and free. They stir us like the wind. We let down our hair Untamed Stripped of prim and fussy...
Thursday, October 8, 2009

Trying to be brave

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Truth is, I was scared. But I had a job to do. So in the middle of the snowstorm, I saddled up my little stud horse and headed up the mounta...
Wednesday, September 2, 2009

A DVD Review of "The Linda Tellington-Jones Series: Riding With Awareness"

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Not being one to leave the mountain very often, I have learned a great deal at home from books and DVDs. They have been my horse mentors. Al...
Sunday, July 19, 2009

Lessons learned from a little stud horse

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We’re finally working together, my little stud horse and I. I mean really working. Guiding rides, and riding up the mountain to our camp in ...
Friday, June 26, 2009

A job to do

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It helps to have a job to do. A job gives us focus, direction, motivation, clear goals. It’s the same for our horses, isn’t it? Likewise, wi...
Thursday, June 11, 2009

Always something...

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As those of you who have horses may have come to believe, if it can go wrong, it will. Careful as we may be, we can prevent most problems, b...