This page is dedicated to the memory of SAF Foxfire
(Geyimage x Shah Jene)
foaled 3/14/80 - crossed over 8/6/04
IAHA Region 8 Reserve Champion Hunter Pleasure
IAHA Region 8 Top Five Hunter Pleasure
Blue Ribbon Winner Hunter Pleasure, Show Hack, Dressage
Valued Partner
Irreplaceable Friend
(Geyimage x Shah Jene)
foaled 3/14/80 - crossed over 8/6/04
IAHA Region 8 Reserve Champion Hunter Pleasure
IAHA Region 8 Top Five Hunter Pleasure
Blue Ribbon Winner Hunter Pleasure, Show Hack, Dressage
Valued Partner
Irreplaceable Friend
Columns
Face it -- once you have a horse, you are guaranteed a life full of unusual experiences. These columns are the result of many hours of horseback meditation (or perhaps just too much sun.) Most of them were first published in The Centerline, the newsletter of the Southwestern Dressage Association. I plan to add another one each month.
November 2004: Don't Fence Me In?
October 2004: Power in the Words of Others
September 2004: Godspeed, Little Big Horse
August 2004: Why Me, God, and What do I Do Now?
April 2002: Life, Death, and the Two-Dollar Hope
May 2002: My Name's "Whoa, Doofus!" What's Yours?
June 2002: Coasting Around the Learning Curve
July 2002: Someone's Got to be the Ice Cream Truck!
September 2002: Hoofprints and the Dust
Alijoscha
Ali at age 3
Face it -- once you have a horse, you are guaranteed a life full of unusual experiences. These columns are the result of many hours of horseback meditation (or perhaps just too much sun.) Most of them were first published in The Centerline, the newsletter of the Southwestern Dressage Association. I plan to add another one each month.
November 2004: Don't Fence Me In?
October 2004: Power in the Words of Others
September 2004: Godspeed, Little Big Horse
August 2004: Why Me, God, and What do I Do Now?
April 2002: Life, Death, and the Two-Dollar Hope
May 2002: My Name's "Whoa, Doofus!" What's Yours?
June 2002: Coasting Around the Learning Curve
July 2002: Someone's Got to be the Ice Cream Truck!
September 2002: Hoofprints and the Dust
Alijoscha
Though I was horse-shopping when I found
Ali, I can't really say I chose him. No matter who I was inspecting
in the herd of colts and fillies, there was Ali looking over my shoulder,
sniffing at my face, shoving his nose under my hand. He wanted
to come home with us, and that's all there was to it. It's impossible
to be depressed around Ali. He thinks everything is funny except food,
which is of course a Very Important Issue and Nothing to be Sneezed At.
He's not the flashiest cabbage in the patch, but he's strong, patient,
handsome and smart -- and hey -- out of all the humans, he picked me!
Ali and his mom
Ali's birth family lives in Ribera, New Mexico, at Pecos Valley Arabians. There are usually some of his brothers and sisters for sale -- check it out!
Having a lesson, July 2004
Ali and his mom
Ali's birth family lives in Ribera, New Mexico, at Pecos Valley Arabians. There are usually some of his brothers and sisters for sale -- check it out!
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