The Horse: Equine Items

New Year, New You!

December 1, 2011 The Horse: Equine Items

We may be in full holiday mode, but the new year is coming soon and that has me thinking about goals for living a better life in 2012. I usually like to make a few for each facet of my life – family, work, home, and horses. With so much going on, it can be

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Safi Suzani Horse Blanket

September 21, 2011 The Farm: Home & Farm

I’m self-confessed One Kings Lane addict. I look forward to the email everyday and I scour the website immediately and I usually find something great. I have a drawer full of the free candles they give you with each purchase. Well, it takes something special to pull me out of motherhood bliss right now and

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Organizing the Tack Closet

August 2, 2011 The Horse: Equine Items

I love organizing. The Container Store brings me more pleasure than it should. Little boxes and containers with dividers for all of my belongings? Yes, please! Well, given this obsession, you would think I have an organized tack closet, right? Wrong. Since moving from a barn where I stored my belongings in a tack trunk

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Fly Sheet Roundup

June 27, 2011 The Horse: Equine Items

My girl is very sensitive. Turnout in the southern heat with flocks of mosquitoes and flies quickly turns into torture for her. She often comes in covered with welts from bites. I douse her in fly spray every day, but even the sprays that say they last 14 days and “kill on contact” don’t stand

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Emerging & Pinterest

May 23, 2011 Off Course

I’ve been very absent. I’m sorry. I’ve had a lot going on, but I’m slowly emerging. I’m back for good now. Today, I have a gorgeous photo of Sienna Miller and a flea-bitten gray. I’ve ridden several flea-bitten grays in my lifetime, and I’ve found all of them to be delightful. Most of them were

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Feed XL

March 28, 2011 The Horse: Equine Items

This time of year, as the grass is beginning to green, horses are shedding, and the weather is allowing for more riding time, I like to reevaluate my horse’s diet. Is she getting enough energy? Is she gaining too much weight? Losing too much? I find horse nutrition fascinating – as well as complicated and