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I just completed the sequel to Sara Gruen's first book called "Riding Lessons". The story of Annemarie and her teenage daughter Eva Zimmer continues in "Flying Changes". In her second installment, Eva has become more involved with horses and less involved with school. Annemarie, meanwhile, is focused on her own relationship with the family's vet and a rescue horse farm

I get pretty excited about equine art. I guess being a life-long painter and horse lover makes it impossible not to combine the two. When I was younger, I would get so frustrated at trying to draw horses correctly. As I got older, I learned how to look for the shapes and see the lines that make up their structure.

I decided to rinse Dancer off the other day after a ride in the hot/humid afternoon sun. I use the sweat scraper to dry him off as much as I could and put him back in his paddock. I had barely latched the gate when he started going down. It was a nice large patch of dirt. Perfect for a

We've all been there. Covered in white, sticky paste as your horse tosses his head, clamps his jaw down and refuses to open his mouth and accept his de-wormer! Trying to get a paste de-wormer into your horse's mouth often results in him and you being covered in half of the tube of paste, which only makes the horse angry

Did you know there is one specific way to install a t-post? I did not. This is not even something that crossed my mind when I ordered the one-size-fits-all t-post extenders for my electric polytape fencing to go around Dancer's pasture. I wanted to put 5" extenders so that he wouldn't go near the plain wire fence because I know