Nita Jo Rush Clinic

The first weekend in May, I attended a three day Nita Jo Rush (Parelli 3 Star instructor) clinic about 80 miles away from here. I decided to drive back and forth each day with the fuel efficient car. Originally I had hoped to attend with horse in hand, but I ended up auditing because of [...]

Bella and the Bunny

There is a game we play each night on the way to the horse pasture to do chores. In the months when the cottontail rabbits are out along the road, Bella sits bolt upright in the front seat and watches for rabbits. If I see one before she does, I point at it and [...]

Book Review: The Soul of a Horse

I had been receiving email notices about the release of The Soul of a Horse for several months. It said it was a book from “the creator of Benji – canine superstar,” Joe Camp. I puzzled over this information. The “Benji” I remembered was a regular on Petticoat Junction, appeared in a Jerry [...]

Filly Update

The girls are doing well. Hope (Echo is of the opinion she needs a name like Nadea – Russian for Hope, or Esperanza – Spanish for Hope, to give her more elegance) let me walk up to her in the pasture and put my arm around her. A first for her!
Dulci is sprouting new hair [...]

Sign of the Cat

I put the tables up and struggled with a 3 foot by 10 foot sheet of plastic that would bend and droop at the worst times. I cleaned the old reside from the surface, gave the entire thing a cleaning and prepped the paint. This was to have a yellow background with red, black and [...]

Pasture Privileges

The early May morning sky was cloudless and bright blue. A late frost sparkled on the green grass and a cool haze floated in the valleys and creek beds. The sun had just appeared in an answer to the coaxing of the singing birds.
The night before, we had let the fillies out of the round [...]

PhotoBlog

I was finally able to get the photo blog working and accepting photos tonight. Check it out at http://caskeyphotoblog.wordpress.com

Merry Christmas!

Today I took down the Christmas tree. Well, not really down. I put a huge garbage bag over the entire thing, decorations and all, and wrestled it up the stairs to storage.
The middle part of the building where we celebrated Christmas last year has been pretty much shut off to help save on heating this [...]

The Last Couple of Days

I took Dulci out of the round corral while Jim and “Hope” had an in depth discussion about whether or not she was going to be caught that night. “Hope” kept up her end of the conversation quite well and brought several new and unusual topics to the table.
While they discussed, Dulci and I went [...]