Ride Season

With faith you can move mountains.......with doubt you can create them.

  It's almost that time again. I am starting to get the Itch. You know the one that you can't quite reach? The need to ride, the burning desire to reach for the impossible dream. Miles and Miles and more Miles. It's a sickness that over takes my  mind and body. I start planning, looking at the ride website, checking the calender and looking at the bank account. Where to ride, what distance to reach for, how fast do I think I want to ride it. Then I start to wonder, can I still do it, will my horse hold together. My knees are shot, can I still push through the pain? Are the upper distance something I should give up? How will I feel if I cant do the distance any more. Will I still want to try?
   Then I remember that whatever I plan, I can do it. I am the one that decides how I will play the game this summer. I am the one that will be putting on the miles, I just have to believe in my horse and myself. I have to believe in myself, my ability, my strengths. I repeat, believe my myself. That is the key to doing the distance and getting through the pain. Myself, a strong word that backs me up whenever I have doubt.  MYSELF

Whats that sound? oh ya... its the sound of making memories!

Snow Snow and more Snow!!

 It was such a special day that I had to grab up my camara and step out into wonderland and snap some shots. The snow makes everything so clean and crisp.

Snow horse!

I love to take pictures of trees, plants and flowers. There is so much snow out there, that everywhere I looked I saw a shot that I wanted to take.

Snow Days

Let us walk in the white snow
In a soundless space;
With footsteps quit and slow,
At a tranquil pace.
Under veils of white lace.
...
We shall walk in velvet shoes;
Wherever we go
Silence will fall like dews
On white silence below.
We shall walk in the snow.

Elinor Wylie

 

 Patty Peck posted this on FB. I really loved it so passed it on here. I sit here watching the snow drift down past my living room window and live in wonderland.  I really should be doing my taxes or even..sigh working horses at the barn. Snow Days are something that need to be enjoyed, embraced, we only have a few. I only take a few days off a year, but I really do enjoy "my snow day". So I sit here and wonder...what are you planning on your "snow day"  life in the fast lane or a slow  lazy crawl down a snowy slope in your mind? Enjoy your day, take it when you can and remember life is very short and you must try to live each day like it is your last..make memories that you can carry with you when you can no longer make them...your mind is a window to your life.

Dog Racing

I have been watching and following the Yukon Quest on line for the last couple of days. I think it would be so cool to catch a ride on a dog shed! If you are interested in dog racing, the Quest is still being run. The first place sheders are in, but there are still more mushers out there in the -40 degree weather, enduring it with their dogs. They have the same passion about racing as I do about endurance riding my horses. I know that we have a disease, one that cant be cured. The ride and show season starts next month, so hold on to your hats my friends...we are in for a wild ride.

Website

Ok I have spent the last few hours working on the website that will go along with this blog...I think it is coming along just fine. A few more days and it should be up and running.

Day 1 the start of the blog

I decided to try a blog to see if it would be easier to keep up with than trying to change a website after every horse show or endurance ride...I guess we will see, now lets see if I am smart enough to make all of this happen!