I am so proud of my gelding, Liable! He's 15 yrs old now. I haven't ridden him but once since I had my knee done back in Feb. but I brought him to the house, round-penned him and really gave him a one-day clinic. He was great! Then early this morning, we were asked to take the first flight. He was fabulous! soft and responsive, no silly stuff like he can do at times. We ran fast over rough territory after a bob-tailed coyote. There were four riders that rode barefoot horses in the hunt, one of them being the huntsman's wife. Her horse would have been destroyed years ago had I not told her about barefoot and trimmed her horse then showed her how to trim. Her husband, bless his heart, has a new horse shod on all four. I guess he feels he must have shoes on his horse because he is the professional huntsman but I always hate to see nice horses ruined for life with shoes! There are other  people in our hunt that shoe their horses too and I just think, ignorance is bliss! For them, its harder to do something different when they've always done what they've always done. So they'll eventually put their horses down for lamenss while I continue to ride my barefoot horses.

I had to take Dewees to the vet. She got into some ground bees in the pasture and got stung all over her back. Poor baby! I tried rubbing a topical antihistimine but she was feeling so bad she started looking like she might colic so I went ahead and paid the vet for an exam and stronger meds. She's better but kept me from hunting today. That's ok though because I had to boil out Cody's feet. YUK!!! I also have an on-going landscape project that has kept me very back sore. Well gotta go out and pull apart Cody's feet. I took photos before I boiled them. They had good concavity and they have taken 3 days to boil enough to pull apart. From the many hooves I've boiled out I know that the healthiest ones take the longest to boil out while the shod, si