Val Gilbert Horsemanship

08/29/2024

https://thestandardnewspaper.online/bids-out-for-rancho-santa-fe-parkway-project/

KINGMAN – Five Arizona construction firms and another in Colorado have plan holder status and are in position to possibly submit bids to build an Interstate 40 traffic interchange (TI) in Kingman. …

08/07/2024

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/08d44993a50c4858b58a7e392de11ec4/page/Dashboard-Description/?fbclid=IwY2xjawEgdqFleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHUNEoOG88HuRj-_ZVga-i9iEjqjazpCy-9xl_wkUq5MOmUqHNKTQzII1sg_aem_lC7foOr7o29CbfHB5AlOCw&views=view_2%2CCurrent-Fires

06/21/2024

I keep getting this and I don't know why... So if you don't see me for a while.. posting about my wildlife and critters... Seems a lot of people are having this issue.

06/01/2024

https://azdot.gov/projects/northwest-district-projects/interstate-40-andy-devine-avenue-bridge-deck-replacement

Overview Project Cost: $10.1 million The Arizona Department of Transportation is working on a project to replace the deck on the I-40 Andy Devine Avenue Bridge (Exit 53) in east Kingman.

05/29/2024

https://www.azwater.gov/news/articles/2024-05-28

Arizona’s Summer Monsoons: It can get wild and wooly, so let’s all be aware Published May 29, 2024 Monsoon Awareness Week – the annual effort by state, local and federal agencies to prepare the public for these awesome, often dangerously powerful storm patterns – is nearly upon us. As for th...

04/02/2024

https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/dirty-dozen.php

ugh. yup.. why I try to buy organic. or I do love my farm box from West of 3rd Rosebird Farms it's all organic and local. And it's on my short list to get my own garden going again. Barn - horse run in - first. Greenhouse second.

Check out EWG's Dirty Dozen list to help decide when you should splurge for organic produce – part of our annual Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce™

03/31/2024

03/22/2024

https://www.azfamily.com/video/2024/03/21/how-kingman-interchange-project-will-reduce-congestion/?outputType=amp

For years, drivers traveling in and out of Las Vegas have had to encounter the Beale St. interchange to get onto the US 93/I-40. But that will soon change. Alaina Kwan reports.

03/04/2024

Hey everyone who got a text from me this morning. I opened my phone this morning and oh 30 or 40 text messages that I sent yesterday never went through.. I had a ton of error messages this morning and then they all sent!
So this morning I probably have a bunch of confused friends.
SORRY! No idea what happened.

03/02/2024

https://local.newsbreak.com/kingman-az/3352390563661-kingmans-newly-completed-white-cliffs-south-trailhead-set-for-ribbon-cutting-ceremony?s=dmg_local_email_bucket_18.web2_fromweb

The City of Kingman, Arizona, has completed the White Cliffs Trail System South Trailhead. A ribbon-cutting ceremony is set for 10:00 a.m. on Monday, March 4th, at the trailhead, located at 711 N. 4th Street. The project was a collaboration between the City of Kingman and the Arizona State Parks Boa...

02/02/2024

Today... in 2016... I made my final trip of moving to Kingman! Horse, goat, dogs, cat, bird and I were all moved into our happy little home in nature! Critters all around, quiet (except for freeway humm but whatever!) ... Surrender's super happy reaction when I turned her lose on over 70 acres. She didn't know what to do with herself. Now she runs the whole show! Goat, cat and those pups are now gone. They were already older when I moved. Bird and horse still going strong.

01/07/2024

https://entrataaz.com/?fbclid=IwAR2Ic4g0DrMA_u4-KGSk-SbbtbXbNsmB04yIcUP-7S_OZdO7pAMS4t-IlIk

The new development at white hills. Lots of questions are answered on their website.

Welcome to Entrata, the next great master-planned community in Arizona. The Entrata community is located 25 miles south of the Hoover Dam, along the Highway 93 (Future Interstate 11) corridor. This visionary master-planned community is set to revolutionize the region’s economy, igniting a thriving...

01/02/2024

when family visits and you hand each of them a chicken! Ingrid Parker

12/25/2023

12/25/2023

Baby Wavey got to wear the saddle too. As fat as Sebastian is... Mavis is just a big girl!!! Don't have to change the rigging except to extend the back cinch a bit. She is getting fun. Just a quick review on her. She also picked up exactly where she left off.. just a little more mature. I don't do much with the babies until they are at least 5 (when I can). Let them grow. They really appreciate it and give you so much more.

07/18/2023

goosemanship!

11/24/2022

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

10/13/2022

07/31/2022

Interesting statistics

05/30/2022

Thank you

https://youtu.be/HsQ3E5pGWwQ

Day is an American holiday, observed on the last Monday of May, honorin...

02/12/2022

In coming days, you're sure to start seeing people in your local hiking/gardening/fishing group posting rattlesnake photos. The comments will be a whole lot of "oh no they are coming out early!" (They’re not)

https://rattlesnakesolutions.com/snakeblog/arizona-snakes/rattlesnakes-coming-hibernation-early-nope-dont-fall-local-news-clickbait/

Here's a little copy/pasteable to keep handy to squash that rumor and remind people that mid-February is a perfectly reasonable and expected time to start seeing rattlesnakes 🙂

02/03/2022

I am going to assume that you have heard the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. If not, here’s a refresher. Unless you’re just overly blessed with excessive free time, there’s no real reason to hear the story again. But this little story relates to nutrition for your horse. Here’s how....

01/25/2022

Fear and keeping your Cool - https://mailchi.mp/7f43f887abef/fear-and-staying-cool

A note from Dr. Steve Peters:
Your horse will struggle to stay in the right emotional neurochemical state if you're anxious, nervous, nagging, overly busy, mad, warrior mentality, over nurturing......How to stay cool so your horse can stay cool! Join us tonight!

01/14/2022

"We don't expect the child to write his name the first day or two in school. As soon as he learns to sit down in class and listen to the teacher, he is not immediately expected to write his name.....but we expect immediate learning from a horse. We expect the horse to go from kindergarten to the eighth grade, to high school, to college without enough time, preparation, or consideration for his thoughts and feelings. We often don't even get him into a learning frame-of-mind before we begin to train him. We don't even have him relaxed and confident, where he can sit down in class and just listen. We skip all that preparation because we are so superior, or neglectful, or lazy. Because we haven't prepared ourselves to recognize the horse's feelings." - Ray Hunt

12/25/2021

Merry Christmas

11/28/2021

"The reins should feel like silk in your hands. There should be a float in them. You should feel weightless.
See how little you can do.
Bring the horse to a walk without using the reins. It should be in your body.
See how slow and soft life can be without letting things die.
Now pick up a feel and speed your horses up. Don’t sit there like a gut shot bird.
Your legs are more important than your hands.
When I’m on a horse he becomes my body, feet and legs.
The reins are really hooked onto my feet and the horse is between my legs, arms, and hands.
Don’t brace in the stirrups or he’ll brace back...............and there’s usually a buck in that brace." - Ray Hunt

Image of Ray is by Mindy Bower.

11/13/2021

11/11/2021

THANK YOU!🇺🇸