The Barb Wire

You're probably here because you followed a link from my comment on another Blogger blog. (I haven't had any luck with Open ID, so u...

Just curious! The 2011 training and endurance season is ramping up over at The Barb Wire on Wordpress . Trot on over. :)

Hi, all. Due to continued spamming, I've just closed comments to all posts on this old site. However, all the posts (along with commen...

...on Wordpress. Story and slideshow . Also, click here for links to In the Night Farm on Facebook and Twitter. (I feel like a librarian s...

I've posted an Aaruba update on the new Wordpress site for The Barb Wire! Have you updated your subscription yet? ;)

I posted a new Acey training update today at the new TBW site. Come on over, and remember to update your subscription services, links, and f...

The Barb Wire has moved! Trot on over to the new site ( http://inthenightfarm.wordpress.com ), where I've just posted an introduction t...

I study a great deal on the subject of horse training, and I've a good memory for words. The result is a mental collection of phrases th...

At this time last week, I was high on a forested mountain trail, grinning and still holding Consolation in as she sped toward the first wate...

I haven't died. Really. I'm still alive and, I might add, quite touched by all your kind comments on my last post ( The Golden Pony...

A little girl lives a quarter mile up my road, on a three-acre plot with a battered farmhouse and rickety fence. She runs to the mailbox whe...

I must apologize for my long absence. The stressful situation to which I've alluded in previous posts continues, and it seems that more ...

Among the files of my life headed "Horses," "Fitness," "Cooking," "Writing," and "Career,"...

After a couple days' vacation, Ironman and I are headed back to In the Night Farm this morning to load Consolation, her pre-packed tack,...

I’m unusually conservative when it comes to introducing the canter with my horses. It always interests me to see other trainers start a gree...

My goodness! Is it the end of May already? Between work travel and a disrupted internet connection, the weeks have slipped by since the Owyh...

I got some bad news this week. One of my life's greater frustrations, which I thought was finally coming to an end, has instead been ext...

We weren't lost. We just didn't know quite how to get home. Well, Consolation probably did. She mostly agreed with me about the app...

Horse time is the best antidote to people time. ~ Spartacus Jones _________________________________________________________ Want to read mor...

Remember Inara ? Born in late July, 2009, this Insider x Sandstorm filly reached a generous weaning age in mid-March. The time had come to...