Horse riding becomes life when…

I love this article at Horse Listening: 20 Ways Horse Riding Becomes Life Itself. There are many lessons that I take away from my equestrian activities — one of the most important is that progress is incremental, but sticking to it achieves results. Not just in your riding, but in every aspect of your life. […]

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Hot wiring your paddock for a cribber

Thanks to one of my readers, Edward Caton, who responded to my post about Freedom cribbing on the fence posts, here’s an excellent way to hot wire your paddock. If you click on the photo or the link it will take you to the blog posting, Enough is Enough on My Equestrian World. I will […]

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A new look for Equine Ink?

I was playing around with a new look for Equine Ink. I’ve used the same WordPress template since I launched the blog in 2008 and I’m just getting a bit tired of it. But what I think about the layout isn’t really that important. What’s important is what you think. Please let me know!

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The Literary Horse gave me an award!

I’m very flattered that Jane at The Literary Horse has named us as one of her recipients of the Beautiful Blogger Award. I’m flattered. And I’m stumped! As part of the award, I need to pass it along to other blogs that I think are worthy and she has already named many of the blogs […]

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Great Posts that I Wish I’d Written

There are several horse blogs that I read on a regular basis. And regularly I find that one of them has already covered a topic that I wish I’d written about. Here’s a round up of a few posts that I’ve read lately that I really liked. Building on a Balk at Barb Wire. Will […]

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What was in the air last March?

When I was reading The Barb Wire today Tamara was ruminating that she’d started writing the blog a year ago. That brought me up short. I went back to figure out when I’d started writing Equine Ink and it was on March 9th, 2008 starting with this post: Goldilocks and the 31 Saddles. By no […]

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Who’s Out There?

A couple of days ago I installed Sitemeter, a website analytics program, onto my blog. While WordPress offers some tracking capabilities as part of their package, I have been curious to know more about who has been reading my blog, and more specifically, where they are from. When I started this blog, back in March, […]

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