Jun 22, 2017 | Patti's Blog
Three months ago, we bought Iggy, an 11 year old Arabian who had done a couple of 25 mile rides and a moderately paced 50 miler at age 6 or so. He’d been purchased, but life got in the way with his new owner, and he didn’t have a full time (or even...
May 28, 2017 | Patti's Blog
It’s just another one of those “do as I say, not as I do” moments … Countless times I’ve told other people with new horses, fretting over this or that, that it takes a year to get to know a horse. It’s been two months since we...
Apr 24, 2017 | Patti's Blog
Damn. This one is tough to write. Ned has been a huge part of my life for nearly twenty years. And tomorrow we will be letting him go. Some creatures — human or equine or canine — just have more personality than others. Ned has been mammoth in more than...
Apr 10, 2017 | Patti's Blog
This week I am vacationing with my brother’s family in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. My nieces are almost “up and out” as I like to call it, in their late teens and early twenties, and the youngest two are here, with friends in tow. I turn 50...
Mar 28, 2017 | Patti's Blog
That dainty girl in the photo is my first distance horse, Tess (short for Serendipitous — she was). She went on to be a rock-solid trail riding partner for my friend, Dr. Barb. That’s not me, but a friend of Barb’s, whom Tess safely toted around, no...
Feb 19, 2017 | Patti's Blog
A few years ago we got very involved in educating new and aspiring endurance riders. Education is kind of in my blood. My mom was a teacher, and my safety consulting business — 18 years old last month — focuses on providing creative, engaging and...
