TIME BOUND

TIME BOUND

Friday, November 8, 2024

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Hi! We made it! This is the final post in the SMART goals series. If you haven't checked out the rest, please do so. Today is the letter T for time bound. Time bound goes a lot with achievable. And also helps us create a measurable standard. If we create a goal without a time limitation then we really aren't setting a goal. We are just talking about "something someday we want to achieve"....

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RELEVANT

RELEVANT

Thursday, November 7, 2024

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 HELLO! Welcome back to the SMART goals series. If you are just joining us make sure to look back at the past week to get the specifics on the rest of the letters! Today we are at R for relevant. This one might seem easy because of course if I set a goal that relates to my barrel racing or horse goals it will be relevant to my overall BIG GOAL, right?Not always. If your BIG GOAL...

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ACHIEVABLE

ACHIEVABLE

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

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 Hi! Welcome back to the SMART goals series. Today we are on the letter A for achievable. If you haven't already go back to the past two blogs to get an in depth look at Specific and Measurable. Achievable might be the hardest aspect of setting the goal. Often times people will set goals that are way too easy, and then they achieve them well ahead of schedule. This one is less troublesome...

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MEASURABLE

MEASURABLE

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

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 Hi! Welcome back to the SMART goals series. Today we are looking at the M for measurable. Staying with our goal of filling our WPRA permit in one rodeo season, let's talk about how it is measurable. The total we need to earn on the permit to be eligible for a full card is $1000. As we earn money at WPRA approved events, we will be able to measure where we are. If July comes around,...

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SPECIFIC

SPECIFIC

Monday, November 4, 2024

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 Welcome to the SMART goals series!Today is S for specific. Let's stick with our BIG GOAL as running at the NFR. So our smaller year goal is to fill our WPRA permit by earning $1000 at WPRA approved rodeos or events. While this goal is not the BIG GOAL is it working towards getting us there. If we only focus on the big goal and don't set these smaller very specific goals that's when I find...

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GOALS: THE SMART KIND

GOALS: THE SMART KIND

Sunday, November 3, 2024

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 I talk quite a bit about goals, and I shared on my social media today about smart goals. I'm going to give the overview here, and then this week I'm going to go in depth everyday on what each of the letters means within the acronym. I hope that this helps y'all put it all together. S - specificM - measurableA - achievableR - relevant T - time boundYour goals should be broken down into...

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HORSE FACT FRIDAY: PPID OR CUSHINGS

HORSE FACT FRIDAY: PPID OR CUSHINGS

Friday, October 25, 2024

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 My apologies for missing the last two weeks of Horse Fact Friday. I've just been so busy with my own sick horse that this hasn't been the priority. Since I do research for these blogs, they are a little more time consuming to write than ones where I just share my feelings, thoughts, and life. But we are back this week, talking about a condition that affects a large number of horses as the...

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POPTART AND THE BACK BUMP

POPTART AND THE BACK BUMP

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

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PopTart just had a check up at the vet. After she had Karma, I noticed a bump on her back in the lumbar area. It was never hot or swollen. It just looked off to me. Combined with previous feelings that she was off, and her cross firing issues in the past I wanted to get her checked out before we went back to work. So when we took Hootie for his re-check, she tagged along. Now, PopTart is...

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HOOTIE UPDATE

HOOTIE UPDATE

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

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 We have been struggling with this guy. We got him in January, and it's been a little bit of a rough road. This is why even free horses are not free. In this photo he's been with us about a month, during which time we've struggled to get his persistent diarrhea under control. His former owner said he'd had it on and off for several years. What you can't really see in this photo is a...

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INVISIBLE STRING: POPTART

INVISIBLE STRING: POPTART

Monday, October 14, 2024

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 I have discussed this topic before, but it's always a good one to review. It's about buying a horse. I'm also tying this one in to my Invisible String (it was Invisible Forces, but I guess Taylor Swift wanted me to name it after her song...who am I to argue?) Now when I bought this red mare that I call PopTart, I was coming off of not having a horse for about ten years. I had also had my...

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INVISIBLE STRING: FOXY

INVISIBLE STRING: FOXY

Monday, October 7, 2024

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 me + Foxycirca 1986If you've been here for a minute you'll remember how I started the Invisible String series to share horses who have been special to me throughout my life. None are so special as the first. My first horse was a pony, named Foxy. My grandpa heard about her from a friend of his, Bob. She had been abandoned in a pasture by his house, and he had taken her to his...

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HORSE FACT FRIDAY: LET'S TALK ABOUT KISSING SPINE

HORSE FACT FRIDAY: LET'S TALK ABOUT KISSING SPINE

Friday, October 4, 2024

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 T13 T15 T17What is it?Commonly called kissing spine, this is overriding or impinging dorsal spinous processes (ORDSP). It happens when the vertebrae are too close together so that they are touching or overlapping in the bony projections. It is most common in the thoracic spine with through T13-T18 with T15 being the most affected. This area is directly under the saddle and where the rider...

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October Goals

October Goals

Monday, September 30, 2024

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 My goals for October got a little derailed with Hootie blowing an abscess. It's in the worst possible spot too. And the wild thing is that he was never lame. The day it burst he would shift his weight off that foot, but he never took a lame step. He's being given some additional time off before he starts working on getting back in shape. This means we cannot start the fall gymkhana that we wanted...

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MY VISION & HOW IT AFFECTS MY RIDING

MY VISION & HOW IT AFFECTS MY RIDING

Monday, September 23, 2024

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 me + BashI have pretty bad vision. Without my contacts or glasses I cannot see anything, and even my glasses cannot get my vision crisp. I have a restriction on my drivers license, and I struggle to drive at night due to some other eye issues. I have sjogren's, which is an autoimmune disorder that can attack the eyes; mine does choose to attack my eyes. I am prone to having my eyes dry...

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LIFE UPDATE

LIFE UPDATE

Friday, September 13, 2024

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 There haven't been any blog posts this week including today's Horse Fact Friday. I've been sick, and now we have a sick horse...so that has pretty much taken all of my time. A few days ago I noticed Hootie doing some head shaking, but I thought it was flies as he had rubbed a spot on one of his eyes. But then he didn't want to eat yesterday, so we took his temperature and it was high. I...

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