A Video I Forgot About

I completely forgot to post this video from Christmas 2012.  Isn't he soooo cute??



Anyway, I'm about to take Chrome for his walk today.  I hope you all are having nice weather and lots of horse time.  :)

Our First Road Walk In Our New Home

 I hand walked Chrome on the roads at our new home for the first time today.  He was great!!  He was very alert and eager, but totally sane and calm too.  :)  He was enjoying himself so much that he didn't even want to turn around and come home.  Check out the pictures.

First pictures of how dirty he was.  It has been so nasty and muddy lately.
 

 You might have to enlarge it to see the mud.  He's the perfect color right now because the mud blends in lol.

 Close up of his dirty hip.

 And his icky tail...

Now some of him cleaned up....

 First his beautiful tail!!  Looks much better huh?  

I didn't even finish it because I didn't have any detangler and it was tearing too much.

All cleaned up.  Lots of elbow grease!

The other side was fairly clean already.  He has a bare spot on his hip where he cut himself, but it's healed up.

 Even though I brushed his mane it still looked bad.  It was so windy.

 When I say windy I mean WINDY!

Now for some fun shots while he was still tied up.  Isn't he so photogenic and gorgeous?  Or am I just totally biased??  ;D

 Look at his beard!

Look at how faded out his star is getting.

See how neat and clean his star was when he was born?  Isn't he a cute baby??

 Standing so tall and handsome!

 Why does he always look so gorgeous when he's misbehaving (pawing)??  Luckily he only paws two times and then gives up.  I'm so happy it hasn't become an ingrained habit (because I never reward it I just take pictures lol).

"Momma?  Why are you all the way over there ignoring me??"

He finally cocked a leg and relaxed (instead of pawing and being antsy) so I untied him and took him for a walk down the road.

 It's very difficult to photograph him when we're both moving, but I got some decent ones.

We were walking so fast that not many of the pictures turned out.  This is the point where we turned around.  

 His neck looks so short lol!  He could smell the neighbor's horses, but couldn't see them, so he just stared.

And then we headed back home.  

 

 

 This one is blurry, but I wanted to post it to show how far under himself he was stepping.

Chrome is such a lazy (maybe stiff?) horse that normally his rear hoof print barely makes it into the front hoof print.  On this walk he was so forward that his rear hoof print was easily a whole hoof in front of his front hoof print.  I'm so happy to see he can move forward when he wants.  The cool thing is that he's landing heel first with his rear hooves.  I got a video that I'll post later.  :)

 Crappy photo, but I love his neck!

Dork was sniffing the driveway.

So I would call today a success!  I've been feeling very unmotivated (due to crappy weather and stressing over Faran), but today I just made myself go do something with him.  It was cold and windy, but so worth it!  Now maybe soon we will actually start doing some longeing, ground driving, clicker training and riding!  :D  I'm so ready for spring!

A New Name?

Okay... I need to take a break from worrying about Faran.  For right now he's safe and doesn't need to go anywhere.  Don't worry though, I'm taking all of your suggestions and sending emails and making phone calls, but I just need a break.  I can't handle thinking about it or crying anymore.

So, something else I've been thinking about is renaming my blog (especially if Faran does find a new home) because my title is waaaaaay too long!  I never really named this blog.  It used to be just about Chrome, but now it's about so much more.  I was thinking about all of the things this blog is about....  my horses, photography, barefoot trimming, clicker training, etc. and all of the things I want to do, such as, dressage, competitive trail riding, driving, etc.  So I thought of a million names, but there was no way to combine all of those things and I didn't want to focus on just one.  What if I named my blog after dressage and then discovered that Chrome or I didn't like it (well I do like it, but he may not)?

Then I realized this blog is about our journey, because we all know it's not the destination (or discipline) that matters, it's the journey.  Of course I have to make sure everyone knows it's a horse blog, so I thought of Equestrian Journey.  I Googled it and didn't see any other blogs using it, so what do you think?  Do you like the new blog title?