Our oldest daughter got tired of waiting for me to finish the story, so here is her account of the next day, after the horses had enjoyed a couple days’ break from trailering. Her words start here: Aww, Dad, you stopped right before the best part! Anyways, while Dad and Mr. G were hitching up [...]
Posts Tagged ‘horse trailering’
8 Oct
Fall Trail Ride, Bear Brook State Park
Just a bit south, the trees aren’t nearly as far along. Some pics from this weekend: In somewhat of a last minute whim, we decided to go for a trail ride down the road a bit at Bear Brook State Park, the largest State Park in New Hampshire. The trailering went very smoothly, with Jasper [...]
6 Oct
(Mis) Adventures in Long-Distance Horse Trailering, Part 2
Last time, you may recall, we had just finished the first long day of our cross-country move with our family, goods, and two horses. Texas to Missouri had taken us a bit longer than we’d expected but it had been relatively smooth. Zip (our Quarter Horse) had taken the situation in very good stride, while [...]
29 Sep
Adventures in Long Distance Horse Trailering, Part 1
In the last post on trailering, I explained that though our Quarterhorse (Zip) was very compliant with getting into the trailer, we had some… ahem… “challenges” loading and trailering our Haflinger cross (Jasper). Under the tutelage of our faithful trainer, Rachel, we put together a plan to teach him to load well. It was a very [...]
4 Sep
The Simplicity of Horse Trailering
When you start thinking of horses and horse ownership, lots of images start playing in your mind’s eye. At first, most of them probably are the romantic cuts, drawn mainly from watching The Man from Snowy River and Open Range too many times. As you get closer to making that decision to actually buy a [...]
A Joyful Birth
