Category Archives: Horses
For whatever reason, if I hear this music, either be it playing live, or, what happens more and more often these days, when it plays in my mind and I whisper the words… … if I’m stuck in a traffic jam, I smile and see the things I wouldn’t see whilst driving by on an […]
Monday morning, 7 AM. It’s still dark when I wake up. Drive off way too early to the stable for the appointment I got for my 2 horses with the blacksmith. Or, actually, “hoof carer” as I prefer to call him. With his sarcastic comment, shortly after 7 AM when he arrived, I think that […]
If people ask me about my horses “do you do dressage or showjumping”, I reply that this is my life with horses: I see them as a partner. A partner for life. They sense more than you can say, they feel if you’re happy, sad or angry. The latter one you better drop fast as […]
05:30 Snoozing. My neighbour at the right stands up and shakes the dust off. Standing around. Short greeting, nose to nose through the metal bars. Walking around in a circle. Standing around. My neighbour at the left is still sleeping on his side. Standing around. It’s dark. Walking around in a circle. Standing around. She […]
Can we talk with horses? No, not in the way we’re used to, like with other people. But we can actually talk with them, non verbal, with only our bodies and posture. But do you know horses do understand body language very well? As they can’t scream or cry or laugh, they’ve become experts in […]