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Marsha, I think you have good instincts and your caution in using methods that you have no confidence in is sensible. It has been my experience that there are many roads that will lead us to our destination and I think yours is going to get you there just fine.

Interesting article but in my mind trainers have been lunging horses for a very very long time and there is a reason for that. If all you want to do in a round pen is chase the horse around in circles then the author has a point but a great deal more than that can be accomplished in a round pen...

Interesting topic. I have a bald faced horse with blue eyes and one has white all the way around it and pink skin. I also live in a heavy snow area where we often have sunny days in winter after a snowfall (makes me squint from the glare). My guy is7 (or 8?) and I have owned him since he was a...

Last night I made myself french toast for dinner. My husband had left over steak and green beans from the night before. I was just to darn tired to cook a full meal after a day spent cutting and loading a cord of firewood (buyer wanted it in 3 foot lengths - not doing that again) and then...

Oh Ryan, walking in the snow is lovely as long as its not too cold. Secuono, thanks for the smiles. I like your ms piggy, she is a pig after my own heart lol, I like breakfast in bed too.

Thanks Ryan. I am sure to live thro my injured thumb lol. When I said it was 15C and snowing it should have read minus 15C. Today it is beautiful and sunny with all the trees flocked with thick white on the branches and only -5C so I am heading out to shovel my deck. Tonight we will probably...

Beef stew tonight. Last night I made grilled chicken breasts, baked sweet potatoes and cream corn. Today I had left over chicken breast as sandwich meat. Its been about 15C and snowing all day, I took a long walk with my dog in the snow. I wandered thro the trees and bush and because I couldn't...

From your past posts that I have read I think you have good instincts. It is (IMO) always best not to get to locked into any one way of doing things. You can only work with what you have (no round pen - I've been there and altho nice it isn't an absolute need- you do what you can with out) If...

I know it seems after 5 weeks he might have it worked out and you know your own horse best, but my experience has been that some of them start with the tongue over the bit only after they have enough confidence to begin to actually try different things. I have a gelding here (my problem child...

I agree with Kendra. Give him time and let him learn how to pack his bit. He is putting his tongue over the bit because it is a new sensation to have it in his mouth and he is trying to find a comfortable way to carry it around since he can not spit it out.

Happy Thanksgiving to all our American neighbours. I hope you have so many good things happening in your lives it is hard to choose what you are most thankful for.

I have no idea what to make for dinner. It is windy, snowing and cold and I have to plan to try to round up an errant heifer this afternoon. I might just start a batch of hamburger soup in the crock pot and then it will be ready when I want to eat. We've been pretty slack on meals lately, often...

Tonight its going to be bbq pork ribs and green beans possibly some garlic bread again since I have the makings left. The garlic bread is a premade bread that I just grill quickly in a pan or put under the broiler. We love it and my husband would gladly have it with every dinner ...except if I...

Oh Jill, I am so sorry to hear about your little dogs. It always hurts so much to say good bye. I hope the memories you made over the past 15 years with them comforts you and of course the on going love of the ones that are still with you. Terry, wow! .57cents a pound. The best price our stores...

My biggest weakness is probably Coca Cola. I want a can with every meal and with snacks too. My day seems incomplete without it and I admit it is very much like an addiction. I limit myself (as much as my will power, or lack of, allows) to one can a day and try to have it at lunch because the...

Beautiful boy, congratulations!

Nice little shelter... even nicer little horse.

I feed a timothy mix (orchard grass and Brome). I have fed an alfalfa mix in the past and was happy with it but my horses can eat more of the grass hay without weight gain and the alfalfa had to be portioned more carefully. The alfalfa is good for them in that it helps soothe tummys (buffers...

We are rotisserie ing a roast and having beef dip. I'll bake buns and probably make carrots (still eating fresh ones from this summer's garden) and some of the brussels sprouts I grew and have frozen. Which will be nice after last night banana for supper lol. We had a late lunch at a restaurant...

I got mine too! A pair of really neat candle holders with horse shoes to mount them on the wall if I want or they can sit on my side table in the dining room. I love them! Thanks Reo and ML you rock!