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If you answer YES to more than three of the following, you may be a horse-aholic. :)

  • Can you say “sheath” in public without blushing?
  • Do you drive a big truck with a towing package when everyone else drives a real car?
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  • You cluck to your car when you go up a hill.
  • Your horse’s hair is in better condition than your own.
  • You refer to your car as “my portable tack room.”
  • You are excited when your friend tells you there is a huge sale at the ‘bridle shop,’ then you are disappointed when you realize they mean the ‘bridal shop.’
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I definitely need to preface this post by reiterating – “I LOVE WHAT I DO!!!”

I absolutely adore the horses, enjoy working with them every day, and truly am excited to get up every morning and hear their nickers when it’s time to feed them…

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Answers to the age-old question: “who’s gonna open the gate?”

  • Lipizzaner: “No need for opening it! When are you all going to learn how to fly?!”
  • Thoroughbred: “Let’s wait for the gate to open – when the bell rings!”
  • Paint: “Yeah, what he said!
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Ever feel like this?

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  • There is no such thing as a sterile barn cat
  • No one ever notices how you ride until you fall off
  • The least useful horse in your barn will eat the most, require shoes every four weeks, and need the vet at least once a month
  • A horse’s misbehavior will be in direct proportion to the number of people who are watching
  • Your favorite tack always gets chewed on, and your new blanket gets torn
  • Tack you hate will never wear out; blankets you hate cannot be destroyed
  • Horses that annoy you cannot be sold and will outlive you
  • Clipper blades will become dull when your horse is half clipped
  • If you approach within 50 feet of your barn in clean clothes, you will get dirty
  • The number of horses you own will increase to the number of stalls in your barn
  • Your barn will fall down without baling twine
  • Hoof picks always run away from home
  • If you fall off, you will land on the site of your most recent injury
  • If you are winning, then quit, because there is only one way to go.
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…and wondered exactly what those glowing descriptions of the horse and his behavior actually means?

According to Holly Covey, we must read between the lines…

  • Easy to Catch = In a 10’x10′ stall
  • Big Trot = Won’t canter even on a 2 mile straightaway
  • Nicely Started = Lunges, but we don’t carry enough insurance to ride him
  • Top Show Horse = Won a reserve championship 5 years ago at a show with unusually low entries due to a hurricane
  • Home Bred = Top level of training was being raised on the front porch
  • Recently Vetted = Someone else found something badly wrong with him and therefore didn’t buy him
  • Big Boned = Good thing he has a mane and tail or he would be mistaken for a cow
  • Doing Courses = If tranquilized to the eyeballs and lunged 6 hrs straight before hand
  • Well Mannered = Hasn’t stepped on, bitten, or kicked anyone in the last week
  • Professionally Trained = Hasn’t stepped, bitten, or kicked anyone in the last month
  • Should Mature to 16 Hands = Currently 13hh, dam is 14.2hh, sire is 15hh; every horse in pedigree 18 generations back is under 15hh, however this horse will definitely defy DNA and grow!
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…more often than not!!!

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I adore Bonnie Timmons, she’s hilarious :)

**from her book Hold Your Horses: Nuggets of Truth for People Who Love Horses… No Matter What

THINGS HORSES SPOOK AT:

  • Lions in trees
  • Tigers anywhere
  • Helicopters
  • Large dogs with big teeth
  • Small dogs ” ” “
  • Dogs ” ” “
  • Dogs that weren’t there yesterday
  • Rocks
  • Thermonuclear devices
  • Rogue nations
  • Plastic bags that flap
  • Bugs
  • Everything else
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  • Drop a heavy steel object on your foot. Don’t pick it up right away. Shout, “Get off, Stupid, GET OFF!”
  • Leap out of a moving vehicle and practice “relaxing into the fall.” Roll lithely into a ball and spring to your feet.
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