So I’ve been a bit remiss in my writing recently… too much going on in this thing called ‘life’ for my liking right now to be honest. So having been nudged politely to write from my friends here at Horse-Canada.com, I tried to pull something intellectual, deep and relevant out of my brain but have […]
I guess I am expected to blog about the goings on of Eventing Canada (sigh). Actually they really wanted me to blog about it last year after the Pan Am amazement, but I’ve been putting it off (clearly, a year of procrastinating). It’s just that primarily I care to write about what I feel passionate […]
I have done my piece filled with emotion due to the recent tragic death and now you will find my non-emotional response. This is not a new response for me, by the way. I have been quietly lobbying away now for years at this, but perhaps now is as good a time as any to […]
For those of you that do not know, the eventing community lost one of our own on the weekend. Ms. Philippa Humphreys. She was riding in the Jersey Fresh CCI ***, a great rider on a great horse. Leslie and I watched her through a few jumps and can only say that she and the […]
It is almost May and what that means for us southern equine professionals is that we can just about take a sigh of relief with the crazy winter season coming to an end. We have pretty much been at events every single weekend for the last month and have been going balls to the wall […]
One of my most dreaded tasks at the start of the year is making sure Leslie, my, and every horse in the barn’s memberships, registrations and passports are up to snuff. Due to the cultural diversity of my little family you can imagine how ridiculously complicated this is. Canada, America and Great Britain, FEI, National […]
The other day we happened upon one of the big eventing websites that had posted Leslie’s gold medal round from Athens as a feature on their daily news as a build up for this year’s games in Rio. I always find it thrilling to watch Leslie, or Stan’s, epic save at the boat houses on […]
Happy New Year! Phew. Is it just me or are there other people out there that feel as if they’ve just survived a 10km mud race after the holidays pass by? All the ads will have you believe that the holidays are about putting one’s feet up and drinking eggnog in front of the fire […]
It is Thanksgiving week here in the USA and I still haven’t really gotten used to how close together the American’s put their two turkey dinner nights, so I have adapted by changing my Christmas meal to roast beef instead. Anyhoo, the first thing I am thankful for is that my back is feeling better. […]
I sit and write this while on a plane home from another horse shopping adventure abroad. Leslie is spending another few days over there looking for more, so, lucky me, I got to spend four hours this morning waiting for my time to board. Thanks be to God there was free WIFI in the airport […]
