Note: guess who meant to post this last week and forgot? This girl. If you’re recently joining us here at The Almanac, then you may or may not be aware that I have ridden a lot of horses at a lot of barns in a lot of saddles in a lot of disciplines. Because of this, […]
Author: Robin Tanner
[ReBlogged] Marilyn Little: Serial Mount Bloodier — The Salty Equestrian
Thank you to Renz over at The Salty Equestrian for sharing this info. Please give this a review and share your thoughts! FYI I’m linking to places with pictures of Little riding with blood in the horses mouth but as I don’t have permission to use those pictures I’m trying to respect photographers […]
Questionable Barn Practices and Customs
If riding and working with horses requires anything of a person, it requires principles. One must be firm in their beliefs and their requirements for their education as a horsewoman or horseman as well as the care of their equine partner. Obviously no barn is perfect, but there are certain things that are always red […]
Six-month review: How is adult life going?
I’ve been on my own––paying my own rent and utilities, feeding myself and my dog, maintaining my car, all of that stuff––for a little over six months now. And I had this utterly shocking revelation: it’s hard to be a grown-up. I’ve had to make sacrifices of things I want/want to do in favor of […]
We are looking for amateurs…
As some of you may know, the team of Poor Amateurs has been looking rather thin lately. That is the essence of the “poor” portion of the name, after all. If we can’t afford to ride, that does eliminate a lot of our blogging material. It’s rather unfortunate, but that is the way of life […]
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