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…
New London County 4H Fair
This past weekend the kids participated in the NLC 4H Fair at the North Stonington Fairgounds. Friday we arrived and checked in rabbits into the rabbit barn and exhibits into the exhibit hall. Amanda had a k’nex model and submitted…
4H State Horse Show
On July 14th we headed to Tolland for the CT State 4H Horse Show. In 4H you have to do a showmanship class and that is first on the agenda. Amanda got to go FIRST of everyone. Yeah Amanda! Vicki…
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:…
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…
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…