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10/22/2026

With our latest house deal having fallen through, we’re taking our house off the market. There’s some sadness BUT it’s looking like we maybe dodged a neighbor bullet, so to speak - ultimately feeling happy to lean into rest and gratitude for a bit.

We’re also getting to put up our art again - including covering the fridge with all the fun stuff (like this picture of me and one of my first horse loves, Stetson).

If you need a chuckle, here’s the story of my slightly disastrous, but ultimately mostly hilarious, first horse show ✨

10/16/2026

Against my better judgement, I let Remi stay up extra late tonight to help me feed the horses.

Thank goodness - because oh, the fun we all had with this found tumbleweed!!

I’ll be the first to say that I haven’t found a lot of ease in parenthood - and that I often feel like it’s really hard to find space in the day for horse time alongside kiddo time. But here it is - a golden half hour just before dark. Laughter and light set against a fading sky. I’ll take a hundred more evenings like this, please ✨

10/13/2026

When we brought the horses home in May of 2021, I remember having this feeling of, “YES - now we’re all alone!!” By November, it was a little more like “oh - now we’re all alone.” I never realized how big of a deal having a small barn community was until I just didn’t have it anymore.

Sometimes the things we wish for are not actually the things that will bring us joy, in the end.

Online connections were the first to come back - little, digital threads linking me to other people near and far. And then I started going out into the world a bit, meeting the people and horses I’d only seen in little squares, on screens. It was only a matter of time before a friend made it here!

Oriana Allen came for a visit today and both horses got to join us for some fun. Cirrus came out for a little groundwork and happily let Oriana have a go - the last time someone who wasn’t me asked him to do something really focused in a training context, about seven years ago, he offered only an “absolutely not.” It was a cool thing for me to sit back and see my best buddy exploring with someone new! We also went walking to the back field with Paloma (thanks for the photo, Oriana!) - the sky was blue and the grass extra tasty when we stopped for a midway snack.

Grateful to no longer be marooned on a lonely, prairie island…today was pretty much a perfect day and we’re all looking forward to doing it again soon 🧡

10/11/2026

This morning, I took a tumble off of Cirrus - it was my first fall in six years, the last being on the disastrous morning of our first trail ride where he bucked me off in a rocky parking lot and took off over the hills. Thankfully, this was not that!

Let me start by saying I am unhurt! I think it was a combination of soft ground and the fact that I’ve been doing a lot of intentional tumbling with Remi lately. When I was in the air, seeing my feet and the sky, my instinct was to tuck and roll - and that’s exactly what played out.

So, what happened?

We were out in our front field and Cirrus picked up his left lead canter. His left lead is not as balanced in ridden work - I could feel it, but also decided to let him carry it forwards because he’d chosen it on his own. Very quickly he picked up speed (perhaps, initially, trying to find his balance) and my body locked down a little, curled inwards, and shifted my weight forwards.

He responded with a FAST deceleration, including a handful of hops - I was with him at first, but at some point I zigged while he zagged. Cue the fall.

Cirrus stood by while I dusted myself off and we started walking back to the round pen - but very deliberately he began placing me in riding position behind his shoulder. I’m not a “get right back on” rider, but today I did make the decision to hop aboard again.

After our previous conversation ending in me becoming airborne, I became cautiously curious - and realized Cirrus was asking me to stop over anticipating with both my mind and body. Oh, I wish I had been able to feel into this before! I think he’s been asking this of me for a long, long time and I just wasn’t hearing it. Three times in a row we were able to lightly pick up and set down the left lead canter.

Now I’m not going to sit here and say I’m glad this happened or that this is what I needed in order to learn this lesson. I’m also not going to make light of it, and write off the event like “this is just part of riding horses” (even if it is). Falling is no joke.

AND-

I did fall.
I did have a lightbulb moment.
I did come away with a better understanding of my horse, and myself.

Message received, buddy 🧡

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