Tag: Horses
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Book Review: “The Electric Fencing Handbook”
If you’ve ever thought of moving to the country and raising livestock, this is a book you may wish to read…
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Books I’m Reading and Books I Recommend
I would like to share a list of books I am currently reading and books that I recommend, in case you would like to purchase them. These are books written by other authors that I enjoy. I have included links from Christianbook.com, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon where I am an affiliate. I earn a…
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Protection While Being Pursued
A few days ago, I read a passage in Psalms that I want to talk about. I was reading from the Chronological Study Bible, which is a New International Version (NIV) translation. The Chronological Bible places passages in the order they occurred or are most relevant. At this time, David fled from King Saul (in…
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Riding
I had the opportunity to ride this afternoon – and it was wonderful. The weather cooperated beautifully and my horse behaved well – she has such a fantastic attitude. I spent time schooling (practicing) transitions between walk/trot and walk/canter today and did a bit of half pass in the trot. Half pass is a sideways…
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Happy Armed Forces Day!
Today is a day to honor service members who risk their lives each day in order to protect and preserve ours. Thank you for all you do.
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When You Feel Tired of Waiting…
I’m working on updating my website a bit and sometimes I hit unexpected snags. It can be challenging to deal with the unexpected… Sometimes, I feel tired of waiting. Now, it wasn’t so bad when I was in the hospital with my brain injury, because I had a more vague concept of time and a…
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Three Types for Studying Foreign Language with a Brain Injury
Here are three ideas for studying and learning a foreign language with a traumatic brain injury. These are techniques which have helped me immensely in my personal life: reading, listening, and movies (preferably ones originally produced in the foreign language). It is important to include all three of these factors on some level in addition…
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Faithfulness
According to Merriam Webster Dictionary, the definition of “faithful” as an adjective is “steadfast in affection or allegiance, loyal”, “firm in adherence to promises or in observance of duty, conscientious”, “given with strong assurance, binding”, “true to the facts, to a standard, or to an original”, “full of faith”. When “faithful” is used as a…
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Kissing Spines
I had never heard of a condition called “Kissing Spines”… Cross-training is recommended at some level for dressage horses – trail riding or perhaps a jump or two now and then. Diagnosis of this condition seems difficult. When I competed and there was an issue, that horse was slated to see the chiropractor the next…
