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May 20, 2011, 4:56 pm
Just curious!
The 2011 training and endurance season is ramping up over at The Barb Wire on Wordpress. Trot on over. :) Comment - Like
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Oct 24, 2010, 9:06 am
Hi, all. Due to continued spamming, I've just closed comments to all posts on this old site. However, all the posts (along with commenting ability) have been imported to the new The Barb Wire on Wordpress, so you're welcome to leave your thoughts there. Thanks! Comment - Like
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Oct 7, 2010, 9:22 am
...on Wordpress. Story and slideshow.
Also, click here for links to In the Night Farm on Facebook and Twitter.
(I feel like a librarian sending nasty reminders to return overdue books. Don't worry -- I'll quit soon!) Comment - Like
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Oct 3, 2010, 10:51 pm
I've posted an Aaruba update on the new Wordpress site for The Barb Wire! Have you updated your subscription yet? ;) Comment - Like
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Sep 25, 2010, 11:24 pm
I posted a new Acey training update today at the new TBW site. Come on over, and remember to update your subscription services, links, and feeds. :)
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Sep 17, 2010, 10:42 am
The Barb Wire has moved! Trot on over to the new site (http://inthenightfarm.wordpress.com), where I've just posted an introduction to the promised series on Equine Exertional Rhabdomyolysis, aka Tying-up Syndrome, and don't forget to update your bookmarks. See you there!
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Sep 12, 2010, 9:03 am
I study a great deal on the subject of horse training, and I've a good memory for words. The result is a mental collection of phrases that guide me every time I work with a horse.
"Where you release is what you teach." (Jeff Spencer)
"If there's a problem with the horse, look to the trainer." (Rober... Comment - Like
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Sep 11, 2010, 9:57 am
At this time last week, I was high on a forested mountain trail, grinning and still holding Consolation in as she sped toward the first water stop on the first loop of the 50 mile race at Old Selam. She had her wits about her, but she was moving out, and I was in love.
We'd driven to ridecamp the da... Comment - Like
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Aug 29, 2010, 10:10 am
I haven't died. Really.
I'm still alive and, I might add, quite touched by all your kind comments on my last post (The Golden Pony). You're the reason I write, my friends -- it's good to know you're reading. Also, I registered your requests for a post on equine exertional rhabdomyolysis (aka myo... Comment - Like
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Jul 28, 2010, 6:35 pm
A little girl lives a quarter mile up my road, on a three-acre plot with a battered farmhouse and rickety fence. She runs to the mailbox when I ride by, and she calls me "her Highness" when she thinks I cannot hear.
I find this embarrassing, but sweet. After all, I have not been adult too long to pe... Comment - Like
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Jul 11, 2010, 9:03 am
I must apologize for my long absence. The stressful situation to which I've alluded in previous posts continues, and it seems that more often than not lately, I arrive home with no energy left to draft a post worth reading.
I'd be lying if I said the same stress hasn't affected my training; it has. ... Comment - Like
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Jun 2, 2010, 11:52 pm
Among the files of my life headed "Horses," "Fitness," "Cooking," "Writing," and "Career," is another whose label reads: "Whitewater." I'm nearly as familiar with the gentle rocking of a river as I am with that of a horse's back.
When navigating our narrow, technical, Northwest rivers, the eddy tu... Comment - Like
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May 29, 2010, 8:08 am
After a couple days' vacation, Ironman and I are headed back to In the Night Farm this morning to load Consolation, her pre-packed tack, and our camping gear. By early afternoon, we'll be en route to the Teeter Ranch near Oreana, Idaho, for Day 3 of Owyhee Fandango.
The Sunday 60 is an out-and-back... Comment - Like
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May 27, 2010, 7:34 pm
I’m unusually conservative when it comes to introducing the canter with my horses. It always interests me to see other trainers start a green horse cantering on its tenth or eleventh ride. What, I wonder, is the hurry? No doubt they have their reasons, but I prefer to wait up to a year before aski... Comment - Like
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May 24, 2010, 8:15 am
My goodness! Is it the end of May already?
Between work travel and a disrupted internet connection, the weeks have slipped by since the Owyhee Spring endurance race that was Consolation's and my first of the year. A few of you have even sent emails wondering if our carcasses are rotting in the deser... Comment - Like
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Apr 30, 2010, 9:32 am
I got some bad news this week.
One of my life's greater frustrations, which I thought was finally coming to an end, has instead been extended for a significant period. The news left me tense to the point of aching, shell-shocked, raw and dangerous as shattered glass.
"I don't know what I'm going to... Comment - Like
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Apr 17, 2010, 10:44 pm
We weren't lost.
We just didn't know quite how to get home.
Well, Consolation probably did. She mostly agreed with me about the appropriate direction to take -- but what she didn't know (or wouldn't admit) was that an impassable drop-off ending in a 30-foot wide irrigation channel blocked our way.
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Apr 9, 2010, 10:39 pm
Horse time is the best antidote to people time.
~ Spartacus Jones
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Apr 4, 2010, 8:46 am
Remember Inara?
Born in late July, 2009, this Insider x Sandstorm filly reached a generous weaning age in mid-March. The time had come to separate her from Mama and begin the groundwork that will prepare her to go live with her new family in Oregon.
On weaning day, I was alone at In the Night Farm... Comment - Like
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Mar 3, 2010, 7:53 pm
Consolation has certainly earned her hay of late.
Truth be told, all you have to do to get meals on this farm is stand around and look pretty -- if you're a horse, that is. I never could get it to work for me. Maybe I should try a new haircut?
Freebies notwithstanding, Consolation has worked hard en... Comment - Like
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Feb 28, 2010, 7:46 am
Four days of rest and good hay. Brisk temperatures. Gusty wind. Rain.
As I pulled on my insulated breeches and headed outside with my Stonewall on one hip and helmet strapped firmly to my head, I knew I was in for an adventure. Sure enough, Consolation greeted me with a rare game of Ha-ha You Ca... Comment - Like
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Feb 3, 2010, 7:33 am
It's official. Consolation and I are back on the conditioning trail.
I confess that I was slightly nervous. As many miles as I post, as many hours as I spend safe in the saddle, I can never quite forget that with riding -- particularly on green horses after winter layoffs -- comes a set of significa... Comment - Like
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Jan 30, 2010, 7:32 am
This is the horse I will ride this year. You know her already. I call her Consolation.
Many of you have commented on Consolation's name -- how appropriate it is to our journey, how you read it as Constellation for weeks, how it is strange and somehow perfect.
Well. The truth is that she was original... Comment - Like
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Jan 27, 2010, 6:31 pm
Next week.
That's when Consolation's 2010 endurance conditioning program officially begins. In preparation, I'm spending this week dusting a few cobwebs off her well-rested brain...not to mention her well-rested body. We went for another walk today. This time, I mostly ground drove her instead of m... Comment - Like
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Jan 20, 2010, 8:23 pm
Consolation and I took a walk today. (After work! Imagine having that much daylight!)
It was just a walk. And yet, it was so much more. After a long winter's nap, it's nearly time to get serious about conditioning for the 2010 endurance season. I've spent some time on the AERC website lately, checki... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 2009, 9:04 am
There's something to be said for appreciating the way life is,rather than the way you meant for it to be.___________________
I owe you all an apology for my long absence. All I can say is that I must have needed a break. I didn't intend to take such a long one, but that's what happened. 2009 has bee... Comment - Like
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Nov 20, 2009, 8:28 pm
I do not appreciate injustice.
Lies are about the worst thing I can think of.
It infuriates me to see unethical behavior gain the upper hand.
I am tense to the point of physical pain. The best thing I can say is that at least it's Friday.
Several people expressed their sympathy today. They... Comment - Like
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