From Jane:A friend of mine and I went out to visit the Woods and their horses on Friday. It was a gorgeous warm day and one of the highlights of our visit was a wagon ride with Val and Paige. Steve hitched the mares up and drove us all over …
From Theresa Burns: This past weekend the weather was great for getting some manure hauled with the horses. Harley used his veteran team Tom and Charlie with one load on Wednesday and with two loads on Thursday. I was there to help him on Friday. We took one load out …
From Zoe BradburyHi Doc, I’m in need of some advice about my gelding, Barney. As you know, I grow a few acres of mixed vegetables and berries in Southwestern Oregon. This is my second season in business, and my second year of owning my team. Last year I used the …
I get an email newsletter called “Horse Sense” written by Jessica Jahiel (pronounced ya-hell). She is a talented rider and excellent teacher. Her background and primary interest is ridden dressage, but she advises readers on a huge variety of other topics. I came across this thought-provoking quote in one of …
From Steve Wood, Elk River, MN:Wow How time flies. We have been driving every day and haven’t taken time for a new post until now. Snow has been good for nearly the entire winter. On the last day of January a warm front came through and brought 45 degree air …
I will second Doc’s comment that we shared a Wonderful Day with Mary and her Donks. Mary has done such a great job exposing her donkies to all the activities and elements she could think of to make them good driving partners. She has worked with them in a deliberate …
From Doc:Cathi and I had a fabulous day Saturday helping a delightful student named Mary hitch her two donkeys to a wagon for the first time. She has done a wonderful job of training them herself with little help other than one 3-day workshop with John Erskine and me a …
From Steve Wood, Elk River, MN: Good Morning to all. Doc, Thanks for starting this blog for us to peer into each others daily challenges as well as our triumphs! This will be fun! Our farm is in east central Minnesota.The temperature this morning was 24 below zero during morning …
Hello Doc, I met you and Tom at Horse Progress Days last year in Illinois; I hope you are recovering from the fire. I have a 7-year-old Clydesdale mare that was broke as a 2 year old. I used her double for 3 years doing chores — mostly on the …