I get a lot of people asking me “how hard is _______ ride?” Sometime I answer pretty vaguely with something like “it’s as hard as you make it”. Meaning that some rides can seem harder depending upon how you ride them….and they can also seem much easier as well…depending upon how you ride them. There [...]
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Endurance riders are usually pretty resourceful when it comes to figuring out how to get stuff to work. Or when we need to fix something. Most of us could easily make a top ten list of things we’ve fixed using duct tape, hay string or bailing wire. Recently I ran across some information on WD-40 [...] My horses go through a lot of salt. I offer it to them in two ways – 1) salt blocks and 2) loose salt. I buy the loose salt in 50 pound bags at the feed store. It’s labeled as “taxidermy salt” and sells for about $7 or $8 for 50 pounds. The bag does [...] Lots of horse people have a tub of ichthamol in their tack room somewhere. I know I do! I recently used the stuff which got me curious about what the other uses are for it. Ichthamol isn’t something that I have used very often. Read all the way to the bottom to get the discount code! Here is my new (old) tack room! It is basically the same but there is more storage in it now. We pulled out the existing cupboards and cabinets and replaced them with new (old) ones. The new cabinets came out of our kitchen and are 22 years old. My tack room now looks a lot [...] I decided to ride Bo the first day. I’m not sure why, maybe because Chief did more miles trail marking so I figured he could use the extra day break he’d get before going on day 2? In either case, there wasn’t any real definite reason for picking which horse to ride which day. Sometimes [...] That means it is time to renew your yearly AERC membership if you haven’t done so already. It’s easy to do online. Go to the aerc.org website. From the left hand side of the website look for a dropdown menu with the title “Membership”; select that and then drop down to “Join/Renew Membership”. From there, [...] Endurance riders especially are really bad about allowing their horses to develop bad habits like moving or walking off when mounted. Being that I’m vertically challenged and riding horses that are all as tall or taller than I am, it is necessary for me that my own horses stand still. I’m not very tolerant of [...] How many of you are using Facebook? Seems like lots of people are these days. I recently organized my friends into separate lists, so I can keep track of them better. Here are some tips on utlizing Facebook better. There are some really useful tips there so be sure to check it out [...] I haul horses thousands of miles every year and have learned a lot of useful things on all of those many trips. It’s not that I *wanted* to learn these things, but out of necessity often I’ve had to. Most important is knowing how to change a flat tire. Before heading out on a trip [...] I regularly winterize my trailer after each trip during a large part of the year due to the climate I live in. Which means that I winterize my trailer after every trip between now (late October) through May. I can’t count on there not being any hard freezes so it’s better to be [...] |
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