Pilar & Annie, July 8, 2011, on their last walk together.  HOW DO WE KNOW, AND WHOM CAN WE TRUST TO HELP US KNOW WHEN TO DO WHAT WE MUST? TO LET GO AND LET GOD TAKE OUR LIFELONG FRIEND, AND TO KNOW IN […]

Some might call it coddling, but I am pulling out all the stops to help my horses get through some of the nastiest summer weather conditions they have ever been exposed to. In spite of normally idyllic conditions, here in New Mexico (as in many […]

I realize a study of horse personality types is not “ever fascinating” to everyone. But, being a horse nut, it is to me. And if you share my passion, then read on. I have two mares, both coming 10: Bella, a Mustang from a wild […]

It’s after lunch and I’m trudging out to the barn where my car is parked, Bear and Charlie at my side, the cold wind blowing through our hair, the pocket of my parka stuffed with a package of out-of-date, slimy weiners. My intent is to […]

Isn’t there a saying: “God is in the little things.”? I don’t know where this came from, but I believe it’s true. I have rethought, rewritten, and edited this post many times because I don’t want to offend anyone. I have friends  who run the […]

I’m talking about mi Corazon (registered name “Ruby Rose Bud”). I call her Corazon (Spanish for “heart”) instead of Ruby now because she has a heart as big as Texas.  And I should know because I’m from Texas. Really.  Corazon tries her hardest to do […]

Heels down!!!   Head up!!!  Soft hands!!!!   Toes forward!!!   No, no, NO — MAKE him do what you want, don’t just ASK!!! This is what you’re hearing and trying to make sense of . . . but meanwhile you’re just going in circles on some […]

I was raised in a family of hunters. Mostly we ate what we killed, but there were those requisite trophies hanging on the wall and lying on the floor too. My grandfather had elk and deer heads hanging all over his house and a bear […]

You’ve heard about people who hoard animals. It’s a terrible syndrome. Cats living in cardboard boxes, houses that smell so bad you can’t go in them, hoarders who think they are the only people in the world who can do right by their 67 dogs. […]

If you’ve read this blog in the past, you may remember a bit about the little Quarter Horse mare I rescued back last November. We called her Lopeh. She came out of years of running pretty wild in a breeding herd, and she was only […]