phone booth
Posted: August 24, 2014 Filed under: horses | Tags: horses, phone calls, wyoming 24 CommentsWhen you’re in a mountain valley with no line of sight to cell towers, how does one make a phone call? Head up to the phone-booth.
Hold my ride while I make this call….
You can ride up on the mountain bike, or take the car, or go natural. But a one horse powered vehicle is a pretty good way to mix technologies.
Here’s hoping you can sometimes un-plug.
wheels and hoofs – cycling and horses
Posted: August 16, 2014 Filed under: cycling, horses, travel, wyoming | Tags: bear gulch, big horn national forest, cycling, horses 5 CommentsWrapping up Wyoming for 2014, I took a cycling ride from the cabin to Bear Gulch. It was about seven miles with one thousand feet of climbing. These days, that’s a hard ride for me. At the top, the as far as I can go top, I sat on a rock and ate some local cherries we had purchased at a local farmer’s market.
Resting at Bear Gulch
Many of you who know horses may think they prefer to hang about the corral with their buds just waiting until it’s time to go out to pasture. However my I-phone horse translator tells me that this one was saying… “What do you mean you didn’t take me to Bear Gulch with all the sweet grass… Are you crazy ? ” My legs and lungs said I should have listened.
Bear Gulch… that’s a very serious matter!
the lead view – horses
Posted: August 6, 2014 Filed under: horses, travel, wyoming | Tags: big horn mountains, horses, the view, travel, wyoming 11 CommentsThey say that the lead view is best, and on a horse I can agree with that.
The horse eye view for Romeo in front – his ears say he’s paying attention
But the view from behind can be pretty good too.
I think Romeo will give me a poor review for letting them cut us off at the pass
It matters where you are.
The Bighorn Mountains, August 2014
May you always take time to see the view.
for those who dream of horses
Posted: August 5, 2014 Filed under: horses | Tags: horses, TP Ranch, wyoming 6 Comments
Waiting to go out to pasture and freedom for the night at TP Ranch
r & r – horses
Posted: September 14, 2013 Filed under: horses, pearls of wisdom | Tags: horses, pearls of wisdom, recovery, rest 6 CommentsRest and recovery is as important as action.
work is over, time to graze
working days – horses
Posted: September 3, 2013 Filed under: horses, travel, wyoming | Tags: clique, duty, effort, horses, people, work 39 CommentsHorses are alot like people. On a horse ranch, they need to work. That means a commute each morning. Some are leaders
leading the way – picture by Jason Stomps, all rights reserved
Some trot behind.
trotting in picture by Jason Stomps – all rights reserved
And of course there’s always a joker in the bunch.
Always a comedian in the bunch. – picture by Jason Stomps, all rights reserved
Some are content to mosey in, just like some people I work with…
Last one in gets to do less.
– picture by Jason Stomps, all rights reserved
Horses even have cliques, here Chief ( red ) tells Lacey and Sunday this cubicle is taken. Don’t they look mean with their ears back? A bit like my daughters when I told them “Nothing good happens after midnight.”
Just like us, these horses work every day. But don’t feel too bad, they winter running free on a huge ranch. I wonder if like me, they wish they could prance away from responsibility?
What me worry ?
Picture Jason Stomps – all rights reserved
May your work bring you pleasure.
chasing or herding dreams – horses
Posted: August 18, 2013 Filed under: horses | Tags: dreams, herd, horses, proactive, wrangler, wroming 26 CommentsAs we pulled away from the mountain I glanced into the meadow and saw these horses moving with alacrity to the corral.
the morning commute to the corral.
A minute later I saw why the hurry.
wrangling the herd
Maybe horses are like dreams, sometimes they wander aimlessly, and sometimes we herd them.
far off places
Posted: August 16, 2013 Filed under: travel, wyoming | Tags: horses, saddles, toyota sienna, travel, two hundred thousand miles, wyoming 13 CommentsWe have this Toyota van – it’s been alot of places on some tough roads with almost 200,000 miles ( 320,000K )
Van at Park Reservoir in the Big Horn mountains
When it stops we will have had our money’s worth.
The Saddles are clean…
cleaning the saddles
The Riding done…
on the trail with Cookie
the last smiles tucked away…
favorite youngest and her guest from England enjoy Cookie and Blackjack without saddles
then we return and I wonder why I don’t live here and vacation back there…
good things – horses
Posted: August 6, 2013 Filed under: cycling, horses, travel, wyoming | Tags: big horn mountains, cycling, filling our lives with good things, horses, riding, sorrows, TP Wyoming 21 CommentsWe made it up the mountain and got in a ride or two..
Lacey and Janet – beautiful palomino, beautiful wife
The mountain is dry, quite a bit different than the green flowery spring.
in the meadow in the big-horn mountains
Later I was riding my mountain bike back from a forty minute ascent up the Redgrade Road when I looked into our valley and thought some of our sorrows come from not filling our lives with enough good things.
an amazing feat of strength – horses
Posted: June 21, 2013 Filed under: horses, travel, wyoming | Tags: horsemanship, horses, riding, strength, wyoming 21 CommentsIf he rides a Japanese Quarter Horse ( a four wheel ATV ) some now, that’s OK. Read the rest of this entry »
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