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“We Run a Tight Shipwreck”
Just a lanky Amateur Eventer and friends preparing to whelm the masses

11/01/2025

Wintertime at Castaway Farm

22/10/2024

🍂🍁🍃Coming-home-from-work views 🤗

15/09/2024

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27/08/2024

On the road to the American Eventing Championships at Kentucky Horse Park!! Last event of the season and certainly the biggest. 💪🏼

14/08/2024

First Event of 2024 Season was so much fun. Cobblestone at Revel Run in June

14/08/2024

The best morning coffee-sipping views from my breakfast nook window ☕️🪟

21/05/2024

I would choose this place time and time again 💞

29/04/2024

Braxton is just so handsome, oftentimes I cannot stand it and must treat him like he is a celeb and I am a super annoying paparazzi member. 📸 🤩

29/04/2024

Got the PaddyWagon re-organized and ready for some upcoming competitions 💪🏼 Braxton says “Let’s Gooo!”

24/04/2024

Spring has sprung and the horses got their teefers floated yesterday. Lt.Blaze had a trouble tooth digging into his tiny cheek that got fixed up 💞

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When Dutch came to me, he was labeled as “unruly”. The reality is he was severely mistreated by humans sometime in his past that has caused emotional trauma. This causes him to have fear-based reactions. He is not phased by anything else, really…. Sights, sounds, etc. So long as none of the above are human-related. One of his “absolutely NOT spots” were his ears. He did not want me touching his ears for quite a long time. Particularly his left one. This is likely a result of past ear “twitchings”. A method that humans do to obtain pain compliance from horses. Check him out now…. He now leans INTO me brushing his ears. 🥰 Every horse deserves a second chance and to be given the opportunity to heal. And, of course, to have their very own middle-aged horse lady to dote on them💞

VonDutch is getting more and more consistent in hos way of going, even though I am not riding him near as much as I need to be. Here he is after having three weeks off 💞

Teaching a giant ex-Amish work horse to do a little jumping and hillwork isn’t particularly pretty to watch. But I think it is neat to observe the process as the horse learns to navigate challenges, use their body, overcome weaknesses, make mistakes, correct those mistakes, gather confidence, and begin to put the puzzle together! Here is Dutch and I dabbling with ground poles and our very first couple of tiny fences 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼 God he tries to hard 😭🥺😭🥺

I guess you could say that things are gettin pretty serious…. First gallop sets with VonDutch. It started out as awkwardly as you can imagine. No persons, horses, dogs, or phones were injured during the production of this video. 🍿 🎥 🐎