Jul 24, 2011 | Patti's Blog
This will be an unusual blog post for me. It has nothing to do with horses or endurance or riding. It has everything to do with families and grieving and loss and the life lesson having to do with learning to deal with the cards you’re dealt regardless of how...
Jun 27, 2011 | Patti's Blog
Every cloud has a silver lining. When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. Look on the bright side. Statistically, our weekend at Pine Tree was a bit of a bust. Ned didn’t even start the 100; Sarge and I rider optioned at 65 miles. So why did I find myself...
Jun 21, 2011 | Patti's Blog
I worked hard this week to shower my three horses with benign neglect. This close to a 100 there is really no point in “conditioning” them. They are either fit or they are not, and my preference is to take them in to a ride super well-rested and with a nice...
Jun 15, 2011 | Patti's Blog
Let me preface this blog post by saying that I realize how wildly blessed I am to be faced with this dilemma! It’s ten days out from the Pine Tree 100 endurance ride in North Waterford, Maine, and I am working hard at NOT trying to speculate as to which two of the...
May 31, 2011 | Patti's Blog
I apologize again for being so silent for so long. I was emailing someone the other day, one of my birth mom’s dear friends in fact, who had sent me a note, and telling her that no one told me, as a teen, that those were the good days, where funerals were few and far...
May 9, 2011 | Patti's Blog
When I looked in the direction of the heavens in late December, when we found our Dodge truck on a sales lot, and told the powers-that-be that I needed more consulting work, I had no idea how quickly and in what volume that prayer would be answered. Old clients, new...
