We have lots of interesting things going on around the farm these days and I have plenty of topics I would like to write about. ...

Over the last few years of living on a retirement farm a few common themes have emerged. When horses first arrive their owners are...

Jason was telling me a couple of weeks ago about a conversation that he had with our vet. The vet said that given that the majority of...

Too bad this isn’t Wednesday and I could do a Wordless Wednesday post. However we shall call this a mostly wordless Monday post instead....

There are very few tasks that I truly dislike around the farm but a few things do make the dislike list. I had to do one of them today,...

Our construction progress at the new farm had ground to a halt until a couple of weeks ago. We had hoped to have already moved another...

One of the things I enjoy doing the most is simply watching the horses. It is good for the soul to watch happy and content horses just...

Yesterday evening Jason and I were standing in the aisle of the barn talking about something. It must not have been too important as I...

One of our residents had a birthday yesterday. MyLight celebrated her 20th birthday on Monday! The birthday girl had lovely weather for...

I did some on farm troubleshooting a little while ago for a lady who was having a lot of problems keeping weight on her horse despite...

Someone in the comments asked about managing pain in older horses or horses with long term issues. That is a really tough question to...

Without question the best day of Teddy’s life was the day he met his mom, Ellie. She went to look at a horse for sale and found an...

We’ve been slowly and steadily warming up the last few days and as of this morning all blankets are off again. If nothing changes in our...

Everyone in the h/j world has heard of George Morris. If you have been riding hunters or jumpers and have not heard of Mr. Morris,...

To continue on with our Calm, Forward, Straight – a fun blog about a re-rider learning dressage with her off the track thoroughbred Boyd...

The first order of business in this post is an update on Miracle. If you missed my last post about Miracle you can read about 2. At one...

A tough day on the retirement farm; Norman, Sparky, Bonnie, Lexi and Traveller Fuzzy, Murphy and Dutch #miracle

Myth: I always choose pelleted feed because it doesn’t have much or any molasses in it. Although it makes intuitive sense that sweet feed...

The last few days we have seen the best that middle Tennessee has to offer for winter weather, 65 degrees and sunny. In fact I think it...

Noble is a gray thoroughbred gelding who joined us for retirement this past fall. Noble was born in Indiana and is by the stallion Noble...