Pine Tree Endurance Ride, 2018
5 riders, 5 horses, 3 dogs, 2 trucks and trailers, 8 days in Fryeburg, Maine. Team “No Child Left Behind” completed a total of 10 Limited Distance 25 mile rides in 5 days of competition. All year, our family has…
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Catching up
As most of our friends and blog followers know, we stay pretty busy. Lately, that has been an understatement. While I would like to be going to bed right now, I feel we are way overdue for a blog update,…
Team No Child Left Behind dress rehearsal
This weekend was the NEATO campout at Arcadia WMA in RI. We logged over 6 hours of saddle time and 29+ miles of riding. It presented the perfect opportunity for our family to test out camping with the travel trailer…
2018 Patriot Half-Ironman Triathlon
On Saturday, June 16th, I completed my first half-ironman (70.3) triathlon. I don’t have a lot of pictures, but this is my race report. For those who don’t know, the 70.3 refers to the total mileage covered in the race:…
Treasure Hill Farm’s Spring schooling jumper show
Spring has been late in arriving here in New England so our trail/distance riding is behind schedule. As a result, we have decided to defer some of our endurance goals for this season and will likely wait until August to…
A week in Chile
It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it. I spent the past week in the Valparaiso area of Chile having meetings with the Chilean Navy, including a session with the CNO. Of all the trips I have been…
A horse knowledge weekend
This weekend was busy with horse knowledge competitions. Saturday, Anna went to the CT 4-H Hippology competition with Vicki and Amanda. Vicki and Alexis were competing as Juniors in the 10-13 year old division on a team with another member…
No Child Left Behind
It’s been a while since we posted, but that doesn’t mean nothing has been going on. This year, we are participating in the Green Bean Endurance Challenge. We are the only team that is a full family (I think) and our…
Fun and games with horses
After weeks of frigid temperatures, this weekend was a welcome relief with highs in the upper 40s. Saturday morning, Alex took Dakota out for a short solo trail ride. Saturday afternoon Vicki rode Duchess and Amanda rode Huey at Pony…
Introducing Amira!
If 6 horses are good, 7 must be better! Today we brought home a 6yo, 15hh chestnut BLM Mustang mare named Amira. On 2/15/2012, Amira was captured as a yearling from the Stone Cabin Horse Management Area (HMA) located in…