If you didn’t check out my link to the Akaash web mini-series I mentioned in yesterday’s post, you really should take a peek at what the Horse Junkies posted today about Wonderful Welly World’s un-wonderful dressage woes. It’s

Happy new year everyone! I know we are already a week into 2012 and 2011 is fading fast, but I am going to impose my top list for the past year on you anyway, for the reason expressed in the old Scots cliché that serves as this post’s title: f

Another year has whizzed by, I can hardly believe it.  It seems like only a minute ago that we were moving into Balsam Hall. Where on earth does time go? It goes too fast wherever it goes.  After the Royal there were a LOT of clinics and lessons to

Just a note to say I’m sorry for such a delay between my blogs! Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas! I was just home in Vancouver for the last six days for the holidays. I had a great time. It was really nice to see my family and, of course, l

Ever since I learned there was no Santa at the age of around eight, I find this time of year dreary, and Vancouver’s S.A.D. weather certainly doesn’t help.  I am what you might call a Christmas runaway, always running away somewhere els

Ten days until I go home for a visit! Time is flying, I can’t believe we are almost starting a New Year! Lately, I have been getting into the holiday spirit. I went ice skating this past weekend was a lot of fun, but for the first time in my li

  Today, a special treat. A few weeks ago I saw Young Rider Monica Houweling – individual FEI Jr. bronze and freestyle silver at the 2011 NAJYRC – at the BC Young Riders Annual shindig. She mentioned that she had been to this year

It wouldn’t seem like the best remedy for the migraine I have been suffering for two days, but I went on FEI TV this afternoon (it really is worth the annual subscription fee) and treated myself to some freestyle action from Stockholm last wee

It’s that time of year again…cold season 🙁 I’ve managed to pick up a little bit of a bug so I’ve just been resting a lot. I don’t think I have slept so much since I was a kid. But, as they say, sleep is the best remedy. Other tha

We live in a world that constantly bombards us with information, whether we want it or not. TV, radio, the internet, and of course that old fashioned medium that I still cherish – the printed word – relentlessly deliver everything from ho