Q: Tell us about the horse you’ve felt the most connected to and why. A: My horse Viva Las Vegas (Vegas). I bought him from Yarbrough Acres when he was 4 mos old. I raised him, started him, and trained him up to grand prix dressage. He truly is my horse of a life time….
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So we had massive rains (think buckets of water dumping from the sky). It was so loud pounding on the roof that I woke up and my first thought is how I wished I could look out and watch how the base was battling the rain. The next morning first thing I looked and the…
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Anil and Jason, with Attwood Equestrian Surfaces, showed up to do the finish grading only to find out they also had to fix the awful rough grade. What I learned from all this is I should have asked Attwood about doing the entire job from start to finish. They immediately set the laser level and…
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I took this as a sign for the best possible outcome with the arena. All my ducks (and peeps) were in a row! Just look at how pretty Dooney is. What a great close up!
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I brought in over 200 tons of base material to be rough graded by the local “pro” land clearing guys. I worked with Morton Trucking and have NOTHING BUT AMAZING THINGS TO SAY ABOUT THEM. Ben, the drivers and everyone I came in contact with at Morton Trucking is awesome. If you’re looking for talented drivers,…
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Find out how top international competition horses legs are wrapped! HorseGirl Mail, Ask The Pros: Sandra from Southern California asks HorseGirlTV® if we’d show the basics of how to wrap with an under wrap and polo. Sure thing Sandra! We’ve asked Janine at the stable of Anky van Grunsven if she’d show us how! Thanks…
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I should back track a little bit from my previous blog on the “rough grade” as at that time I did think it odd they wanted cash payment and I try to believe people when they tell me something and the owner of the land clearing company directly told me “It’s as good as it’s…
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To say it was a rough experience with the local “professionals” doing the rough grade for me would be the UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE CENTURY! Now these guys were nice, I’ll give them that but they evidently they way over-faced themselves with what I thought was not rocket science. Evidently… it IS! They will go un-named…
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This is completely random but now that I have my work station standing up with my writing desk to my back, Picollo and Zita find it completely necessary every morning to play, quite literally, at my ankles or ON my feet. When Picollo has had enough playing yet Zita still doesn’t realize it, he hides…
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What else could someone who’s planning a massive arena project need but the time it takes to prep peeps and ducklings in a cage. I drove down to the local feed store to pick up some feed for the horses and came back with these! Joel mentioned wanting ducks but probably not in the middle…
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