12 Step Program

It may be broadly stated that, with the single exception of goldfish, of all animals kept for the recreation of mankind the horse is alone capable of exciting a passion that shall be absolutely hopeless.
-Bret Harte
The First Step is Admitting You Have a Problem
My name is Bethany Caskey and I’m a Horseaholic.
Pat Parelli divides the [...]

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All horse things progressing well. Dulci now comes to the gate when I arrive and says “Catch me, please.” In a few days they will get pasture privileges. It was super cold last night so did not do much with any of them, the wind cut right through everything. I can pick up all four [...]

Success!

I thought it was time to post an updated photo of the new rescues:
Oh, wait, wrong photo. This is the neighbor’s bison. So easy to get confused. It is the same color as Jim’s rescue :^P
Tonight all the patience paid off. I went into the round corral and the chestnut filly let me walk up [...]

Raleigh DL-1

My sister is as devoted to riding bicycles as I am to riding horses. Maybe more so. We both get to wear spandex when going on long rides and are not embarrassed to be in public in our “garb” so it could be some bizarre quirk in the DNA. I have been talking for the [...]

The Two Minute Catch

Yesterday when I went to feed the rescue ponies, it took me a longer time than usual to catch the saddlebred. I had not caught her the day before because of time constraints and now I was having to make up the lost time. I finally resorted to playing the old trick i had learned [...]

Drafting Film

Thanks to Maggie on the Greywaren Art blog, (her link is on the blogroll) I ordered some Durafilm drafting film in the double sided matte. I was familiar with drafting film for technical pens and that “old’fashioned” way of doing some layouts, but I had never tried the matte or using it with colored pencils. [...]

I love mud

I just drove home barefoot.
This morning, the famous and fabulous MeToo (son Johnny’s horse) had gotten into the small pasture surrounding the round pen and the new fillies. The idea had been to keep the newbies quarantined for a couple of weeks until we could see what cooties they might have. MeToo had other ideas [...]

Horseaholic Part 2

The weather, work, and other things kept us from going back until yesterday to try and bring the rescues home. For once, the weather cooperated with a planned event and we trucked south again to see if we could capture our wild horses.
This time we backed the trailer into the pasture and we were ready [...]

Horseaholic

I apologize for being MIA the last couple of weeks. Lots of things going on. Spring they claim, is here, although we had a tornado one night and two days later it was snowing and the next thing you know there was an earthquake.
It is time I made my confession. I am a horseaholic. I [...]

An Interview with Cathy Choyce

RURAL HERITAGE magazine has given the go sign on a new series of articles about artists that excel in creating draft animal artworks. The magazine will publish a one to two page spread on a living, contemporary artist. I have used the Equine Art Guild as my hunting ground to find the best artists out [...]