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Blue Blazes the Trail: March 2014
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Blue Blazes the Trail. Wednesday, March 19, 2014. Your Mileage May Vary: Thoughts on Hoof Boots. You can say this about most topics in endurance: Your Mileage May Vary (YMMV). But there are some people in this sport (as in all great passions) for whom the answer is My Way or the Highway (MWOTH). There is no single right answer for electrolytes, conditioning schedules, nutritional supplements or behavioral training. With any method, YMMV. He's gotten a bit pudgy over the winter. We are two of a kind.
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Help Life on Earth | Fascinating Animals
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Help Life on Earth. Add your Animal Friend. Talk to the Animals. Paws for Thought Messages. Our Amazing and Fascinating Animal Kingdom – click on Fascinating Animals to return to the Home page. Help Life on Earth. The best way to help Life on Earth is to appreciate everything and to be observant and alert and help campaigns and issues as best you can. Do your research on particular animal species you are interested in, for example, search on the words polar bears. Http:/ www.seaweb.org. The mission is to...
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Blue Blazes the Trail: Falling with style
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Blue Blazes the Trail. Thursday, May 7, 2015. First off, that movie is 20 years old. I am four weeks into weekly English equitation lessons with a dressage trainer. In these four weeks I have learned that all of those miles we did, I wasn’t really riding. To put it in standardized test terms…. Falling : flying : “riding”: riding. So in three weeks of intensive work, I am just about able to make a passable circle at the walk and perform something akin to a leg yield at the trot. On the lameness front, on ...
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Blue Blazes the Trail: May 2015
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Blue Blazes the Trail. Monday, May 11, 2015. Model horse surgery: A photo diary. Thursday, May 7, 2015. First off, that movie is 20 years old. I am four weeks into weekly English equitation lessons with a dressage trainer. In these four weeks I have learned that all of those miles we did, I wasn’t really riding. To put it in standardized test terms…. Falling : flying : “riding”: riding. Moreover, I come out of lessons sweaty and sore. Blue is doing OK with the trainer. They had planned to do a 7-mile...
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Blue Blazes the Trail: Fix it or go broke trying
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Blue Blazes the Trail. Tuesday, September 16, 2014. Fix it or go broke trying. We are in a quiet period at work. The downside is that I have too much time to think. My horse is on my mind, so I’ve been inundating you guys with blog posts to try to exorcise the Bad Thoughts. First of all, the good news. If you have not heard of Magic Cushion. But I still can’t go to OR 100. The area in question. Nothing to see here. (Literally, I tried all kinds of angles and couldn't get photographic evidence of ...It is...
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Blue Blazes the Trail: Check your privilege
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Blue Blazes the Trail. Friday, February 27, 2015. 8220;There's that saying.something like ‘if you want it bad enough, you find a way, otherwise you just find excuses.”. Somebody I like and respect said this yesterday in a Facebook conversation. And I get it, it's a platitude that we've all heard versions of. It's just a thing you say. Follow your dream. You can do anything you want. Where there's a will, there's a way. What a ridiculous sentiment. You can't always "find a way." Sometimes there isn't ...
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Blue Blazes the Trail: April 2014
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Blue Blazes the Trail. Saturday, April 26, 2014. Grizzly Mt 2014: Might as well go 50. This is a ride story without pictures. Sorry about that. But of course by the time we had finished those 35 or 36 miles, it was too late to go 50. We signed up for the LD and we were done. Heather and I have been talking over email about our season plans, such as they are. Purchasing Bunny has put Heather in a completely different bracket. Figure out a conditioning schedule that works for you and the horse. It is a hot...
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Blue Blazes the Trail: April 2015
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Blue Blazes the Trail. Monday, April 13, 2015. The Shadow of Smith Rock. Photo shamelessly stolen from Wikipedia). Yesterday was kind of a hard day. For almost two years, I’ve been mulling over a simple question: Can I continue with Blue? For the first half of that time it was just a financial question. Since last May, it has also been an ethical question. I looked for a part-lease to keep Blue active and help cover my board costs. Still, his feet reek of thrush and are tender to the touch. If I owned la...
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Blue Blazes the Trail: November 2013
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Blue Blazes the Trail. Friday, November 1, 2013. Excitement served cold (with a side of guilt). Fine, I’m a cold fish. A loner. I’m also a pretty decent social media coordinator for whatever reason. Fake it ‘til you make it? You see, the long radio silence on the blog has been the result of buying our first home—a process that has been better than having my fingernails removed individually with pliers but worse than taking the SATs with double pneumonia. Please take my money. Please take my money. Ergo, ...
