Travel Tails There’s nothing like daily use and a bit of work, to make a horse steady and reliable. When exploring Ireland, we were witness to this simple fact no matter where we went. The horses that pulled the city carriages patiently stood there, waiting for their
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Travel Tails Our research meanderings took us to Bushmills and the Giants Causeway. The whole area is much like something out of a novel. The Giants Causeway with its stop sign shaped columns reaching to the sky and like a path leading into the ocean. Lovely Bushmills,
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When my kids were tiny tots, they went everwhere with me. If there was fence to fix, they walked with me, hay to haul, same story. They learned about chores, responsiblity, and how to get on with it, from a very young age. One day, when my
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Getting Thow-ra I had finally chosen my first horse, despite the cautions of all the onlookers. Even the owner slash horsetrader, felt the need to say something. “You know, Trudy, I would say she’s a very old horse. She’s a Standardbred that raced a few years, and
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One would think it would, or should, take some time to get to know a new horse, and for the horse to become familiar with it’s new person. Not so, with Thow-ra and myself. It was, as if we’d been friends forever. Right off the bat, she
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