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Mind your feet
So last Friday we went for a hack. I was pretty excited about going and felt like I needed it to relax and just chill in nature. Well it...
Chrissie Michael
Oct 10, 20242 min read
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Check your treat box!
Well both horses are lame. No idea why. No swelling so we just gave the usual cocktail of medications and we wait and see. Ermi was...
Chrissie Michael
Sep 20, 20242 min read
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The struggle
OK. So how many of you spend at least 10 minutes trying to convince yourself that you are perfectly sane and it's perfectly normal to...
Chrissie Michael
Jul 19, 20241 min read
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Whisper the hacker
Whisper. Mr. Anxious is able to hack. It's such a major thing for us. At the previous farm it took us months of work to get him to walk...
Chrissie Michael
Jul 14, 20242 min read
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Green riding tights.
Well let's just say I've had my worst falls in them and mostly on the first day of the riding week. I love these riding trousers. They...
Chrissie Michael
Jul 10, 20242 min read
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Hack. Alone.
So I did it. If you know me then you know I was a very anxious rider. Horse sneezed? I would freak out. Horse tripped? Death becomes me....
Chrissie Michael
Jul 4, 20241 min read
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Horse week
So last week we invited kids from our riding school to spend the mornings with us so we could show them the other side of horses. Let me...
Chrissie Michael
Jul 2, 20241 min read
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Floating
It's that time of year again, which I personally dread. Floating. Filing horse’s teeth. You see it would be an OK experience if we didn't...
Chrissie Michael
Jun 27, 20242 min read
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Litsa
I think every horse farm has some sort of mascot. Maybe a donkey, geese, chickens or dogs. We do have rescue dogs but our mascot I have...
Chrissie Michael
Jun 23, 20241 min read
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Physio
So Whisper has been lame for roughly two weeks. We gave a course of bute and it didn't help. Riding didn't make it worse or better and...
Chrissie Michael
Jun 19, 20242 min read
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Horses, heatwaves and anhydrosis.
It's that time of year again. Yeah we are greatful that there is no mud in sight. Hooves are clean. Horses are clean. We aren't slipping...
Chrissie Michael
Jun 14, 20243 min read
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Ermis
Well grab a nice cold drink because it's probably going to be a long one. Ermis. Well nothing really special about him. Just a bay...
Chrissie Michael
Jun 12, 20244 min read
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Horseland
The move to Horseland went quite OK. Whisper of course gave us some trouble loading but it didn't take too long to get him on the...
Chrissie Michael
Jun 7, 20242 min read
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The next almost 3 years
The riding school we moved to was huge. It took us quite some time to get used to the size of the place. Whisper settled in ok. He was...
Chrissie Michael
Jun 3, 20242 min read
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Closure
Eight years is a long time to spend in an environment. We became family. We were actively involved with all the school horses. We built...
Chrissie Michael
May 31, 20241 min read
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Whisper (Kostner)
Three months after losing our first horse we started looking for our next family member. I visited the race track a few times to have a...
Chrissie Michael
May 29, 20242 min read
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Our First Horse Oniros
When covid hit we decided we were ready as a family to have our first horse. We had been in the equestrian world for around seven years...
Chrissie Michael
May 27, 20242 min read
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First One
The first one
Chrissie Michael
May 26, 20241 min read
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