Karen’s Musings & Endurance Ride Stuff

Since I am currently off the board, I feel I can comment on this without others thinking I have a vested interest in the subject. I understand many of the […]

What exactly is the "endurance experience" that is being referred to here? And how exactly is the AERC providing it? 'Cuz if you ask me, it is ride managers […]

Hi everyone - in previous years we've had a long waiting list by January for the Cuyama Oaks XP. This year we still have some spots open. This ride is […]

Our daughter is selling her barely used set - reins, halter bridle with the bit hangers, and a breastplate - all matching and all ordered together. Used maybe […]

Very important question:  How is it that I'm a morning person who cannot, for the life of me, get out of bed in the morning?   Is that even possible?   I feel the best when I get up sometime between 5am and 6am.  My day goes flawlessly, I'm motivated, have energy, and just spend the whole day feeling happy.  I LOVE that pre-dawn/dawn time of day wh […]

A big thank you to AareneX for giving me a blog award! I love awards :)The general rules of the award is to list 7 things and then pass on up to 15 bloggers.OK - that's too easy. The 7 things must be things you find beautiful, and you must explain why the NINE (the number of letters in "Beautiful") bloggers that get the award are beautiful.Sev […]

This will mark my 100th blog post.  A huge THANK YOU to all of my readers...you are the reason I keep blogging!  I started blogging due to the fact that I enjoy writing, and this would be a good outlet for that, as well as wanting a place to catalog my accounts of rides and pony antics. I started blogging in April of 2007, so it's taken my this long to […]

Happy Birthday, Dad! Today is my father's XXth birthday...he can enlighten anyone who asks what numbers are supposed to fill in those x's.  :))) I couldn't ask for a better riding partner to spend the hours and miles with along the trail.  Thank you for following me into this crazy horse obsession, and for making me a better horseperson along […]

We've recently discovered that Huck has AV block, or "second degree atrioventricular block." It is, essentially, a cardiac arrhythmia, that occurs when the heart regularly skips/blocks/drops a beat.So Huck's heart beats like this:lub dub, lub dub, pause, lub dub, lub dub, pause and so forth with a pause every third beat.2*AV block is the […]

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I confess, ever since my college days, I’ve been a John Denver fan. I learned about the “country spirit” a good way to be from his spirit. Being from New Yawwwk City but going to college way upstate New York , I handily earned the nickname “Hayseed” from my city [...] […]

They're not the greatest quality, but you get the idea. I just really hope I don't look like an Amazonian riding a yearling... […]

I was able to ride TWICE today. Both rides were on Jasper, but both were very different. For the first, we trailered out to the Mountain to do a nice, slow sweaty uphill walking ride. Our distance wasn't much, but his heart rate got up and we all had a wonderful time visiting and chatting in the warm February sun.After this, we loaded up and trailered t […]

Sunday afternoon, and I am sitting in the Reno Nevada airport, watching the snow fall. Last night it started before sunset, and has kept falling. It reminds me that this happened to us just last week at home! But here, they actually have snow plows, and are prepared for such weather.  Our flight is delayed so far, about an hour, but we have no place else to […]

It is almost here.  In less than 24 hours we will have our big awards banquet and we will receive the award we aimed for this past ride season. As I watch a bit of the Olympics, I look at the faces of the competitors, and know a bit about the thoughts they have as they get read to compete, or afterwards waiting for scores, or later, as those who won, stand u […]

Wiseguy: The Collector's Edition gets released on DVD tomorrow. Although short-lived (it ran from 1987-90), Wiseguy garnered Emmy nominations for Best Drama series and acting nominations for star Ken Wahl and supporting player Jonathan Banks; Wahl was awarded the Golden Globe. Harry and Wally's Favorite TV Shows (by Harry Castleman & Walter J. […]

One of The Twilight Zone's best remembered episodes— and a staple of Twilight Zone marathons— is the first season's "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street." Scripted by Rod Serling, it's one of the series' social commentaries-- on how easily ones neighbors can turn against each other. It stars Claude Akins and Jack Weston, and am […]

The magnitude 8.8 earthquake that rocked Chile on February 27th ... […]

When researchers rack up the carbon emitted across the world, the standard ... […]