Crooked Ridge Farm

01/14/2025

Trail riding Bowie on a very windy day started off interesting, but he pulled it together and we had a great ride! Still have three adorable puppies available too!

01/11/2025

Bowie enjoyed a PEMF treatment from my good friend Kellie Moore-Fryman (give her a shout if you would love to keep your horses feeling great, I love how well it gets the blood flowing and helps soften tight muscles). Then we did a nice little ride up and down the snowy hill. He was excellent ❤️

01/09/2025

Snow is packing and slippery, but Chica is a boss in these conditions and a great one to show a youngster when to dig in and when to slow down. She was a bit feisty today, but it was good for Bowie to do some hills in the woods and see the 79 billion deer 🤣🤣. Then we came home and did ground work and stood tied. I love how beautiful it is out even if the p**p piles are frozen to the ground❄️❄️

01/07/2025

Bowie says, why is everything covered in snow? Still standing patiently while we run around breaking ice and clearing snow and playing with puppies etc etc. There is a lot going on around here, and he is learning to roll with it ❤️

01/03/2025

I love a snowy ride! Bowie has been working hard at being patient, soft, and balanced. We do a lot of work moving individual parts of our bodies, minding our business and doing our work while another horse rides around, doing obstacles with precision, and ground tying ❤️

It might be cold, but it is beautiful out, and I am happy the mud is mostly gone ❄️

01/03/2025

Cold day outside and no great pictures of ponies, but I did get some cute ones of the puppies!

They are 8 weeks old tomorrow, and I still have 3 available looking for active homes! (Though Oliver and Bruce are big time snugglers too)

Getting their puppy goody bags together tonight ❤️

12/31/2024

Busy day at Crooked Ridge 🤣
- farrier for two of my ponies
- random truck issues
- no power....broken generator
- great ground work session
- pretty great trail ride and worked through moving past something scary with more trust in our rider
- found some things smashed by downed trees in the woods, but we took advantage of the natural trail onstacles
- power came back on with just enough time to top off water before a transformer blew and it went out for the rest of the night......
- ate pb&j for dinner
- power came back on just in time to crawl into bed ❤️

All in all, it was a good day, sure, it wasn't perfect, but we made it, and really was the perfect learning day for the ponies, and the sunshine was beautiful!

12/30/2024

The Internet is an amazing tool, it makes available a plethora of information almost instantly, and I have seen it turn a lot of people into do it your selfers, some impressively so. It is a great way for trainers to reach more people to help more horses through their owners. It is a valuable resource……

One thing it has done is take our already busy selves, and added even more desire for instant gratification. Also, we feel we can still successfully learn or reach our goals without leaving our house or having an awkward interaction with someone new, and avoid being embarrassed by correction. Oftentimes we would rather just read or watch something rather than to truly learn it.

And we get to hear and watch so many trainers say things with so much certainty. Hear people who have no formal or informal training, teaching with authority on a subject they have no authority to give. And we have all this information without any help to properly implement it.

When we take these training tips and try to apply them to our training with our own horses, and they don't work, we wonder where we went wrong. We forget that it is a process of patience, and not a “one size fits all”. And we don't have a person to ask where we went wrong.

While I love the information available on the internet, don't let it take the place of human interaction! Go to a lesson, sign up for a clinic, go to that local show, ask a trainer for advice, call a friend and ask them to help keep you accountable on your journey with consistently working your horse!

Those you see succeeding are not doing it alone, they have mentors, friends, colleagues, and more helping them. They are constantly trying to learn and help each horse and rider become better. They are ASKING for help! They aren’t afraid to be told they are wrong by those they trust, because they have built real relationships with these REAL people and know they are trying to work with them to improve their skills!

There is my Sunday TED talk, don't forget to form real relationships (both horse and human), because we all learn more efficiently when we feel valued and understood ❤️

- Lisa Jamison -

12/28/2024

Got Bowie out on a meet up group trail ride. Did a lot of out and back type stuff, and horses moving at different speeds, and moving around. Bowie def had some moments of getting worked up and being worried about other horses etc, but other than a few jump arounds, he mostly kept it to being a little prancy. He ended pretty well, and enjoyed being hosed off (who would have guessed 60 degrees in December!). At times he was so relaxed you hardly had to touch the reins, at at others, I felt like I really had to take hold of him. Over all, it was a good ride, and I think he improved. Noticed he was a bit worse as he got tired, so he improved after I got him to stand still and drink and relax. That works for me too🤣🤣

12/25/2024

12/25/2024

It might be muddy out, but my hose isn't frozen! Don't forget to count your blessings❤️

12/23/2024

The last few days have been cold! Happy for some warmer weather today even if that means the dreaded MUD is back 🤣🤣. What are you getting accomplished with your horses this week??