It must be spring
Daylight until 7:30ish each evening means dinner after 8 at our house because we are probably in the barn. Last week was spring break for the kids. They rode horses basically every day it didn’t rain (or in between rain…
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Skijouring
Growing up in Sweden, Anna had the opportunity to experience skijouring. For Christmas this year, we bought the family a set of skijouring skis that strap onto winter boots (thanks Amazon!). The same set of skis fit the whole family.…
Watercolor art
Vicki likes art. This year my parents gave her water color supplies and books for Christmas. She has been using lessons out of one of the books and completed two projects from the subscription company Let’s Make Art. I’m impressed…
NEATO Endurance Ride
It’s been 6 weeks since our last blog post. We haven’t done a very good job of keeping up. This weekend, Team No Child Left Behind rode in the NEATO Endurance ride, held on our home turf at the Arcadia…
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…
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,…
Leaps and Bounds
This past Saturday Rob, Alex and Vicki took their horses to Horsepower farm for the first Crosscountry Derby of the year. Unfortunately, Alex came off Dakota during the warm up and hurt his right foot by slamming it straight into…
Easter Weekend
This past weekend we took it easy. Relatively. On Thursday we took 6 horses out on the trails with the help of Alexis. We rode around 5 miles. On Friday we stripped stalls and cleaned pastures while Rob removed two…
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…
Christmas Lights
Last night we drove up to Amarante’s Winter Wonderland in Dayville. We are new to this local attraction and just learned about it this year. In its 11th year, Amarante’s is a local house that has 160,000 lights, 43 inflatable holiday…