tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88463304978593937212026-04-19T06:18:36.070-04:00Cob JockeyDressage with a Welsh CobJenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04292565760924146966noreply@blogger.comBlogger200715tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8846330497859393721.post-68756792252327888642026-03-31T17:19:00.002-04:002026-03-31T17:19:14.204-04:00The First Three Weeks with KateWe are not quite a month in, and I am already so, so glad I've sent Disco to Kate.A photo of two stallions hanging out together!Kate videos some of her training rides for me, and narrates them, and in watching those, I've realized that it's my first time actually seeing this process of a young horse being started. And there are times where she'll laugh something off that I know I would have takenJenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04292565760924146966noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8846330497859393721.post-29943131526608893002026-03-12T10:20:00.011-04:002026-03-12T10:23:27.519-04:00Disco Goes to Boarding SchoolFor years now, I've known I would send Disco out for full training in his four year old year, once I got him to the stage that required finesse.When it slowly became clear that Kate's move back to the Midwest would happen in the second half of his four year old year, the whole plan crystallized: there's no one else I would rather send him to for this phase of training. Kate's ability to "speak Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04292565760924146966noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8846330497859393721.post-78376597432052194402026-01-29T08:48:00.026-05:002026-01-29T10:05:32.499-05:00"What do you NOT want to do?"<!--[if gte mso 9]>
<![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>
Normal
0
false
false
false
false
EN-US
X-NONE
X-NONE
<![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>
Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04292565760924146966noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8846330497859393721.post-57800264836938431922025-11-02T08:07:00.015-05:002025-11-02T08:21:49.733-05:00Where to LiveRhiannon's comment on my last post made me realize I need to revisit the whole "where are we going to live" thing now that the barn is purchased. Maybe the way we've worked through this will help somebody someday as they go through this on their own farm property.Buying the farm ended up being a 2 1/2 year process from when we went under contract to when we closed. That was by design - I needed Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04292565760924146966noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8846330497859393721.post-42986478598150249352025-10-31T14:31:00.002-04:002025-10-31T14:31:16.173-04:00Farm OwnersWe closed on the farm today.Ooooooomg. This represents so much more than a real estate transaction. The person I was five years ago couldn't have done this - wouldn't have done this. I thought I was a lifetime boarder married to a guy who just wasn't cut out for farm life, and that was that.But I've learned what feelings are and how to listen to them. That little voice in my head when I'm Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04292565760924146966noreply@blogger.com20