Marti and Toby's 2022 Florida Adventure

 Toby and I took off today for our adventure. 😀😀

 Yesterday  Toby had his winter coat removed in prep for the warm Florida weather. Of course, today the temps dropped in Virginia and gale winds kicked up. Toby is now wearing a warm blanket over his buzz haircut. We leave Thursday, and it will be warming up by them. My lists of what to pack are beginning to evolve into actually packing.

 March 18, 2022 Fourteen years ago, I got a new horse, whom I named Toblerone ... Toby for short. He was a youngster ... an enthusiastic 4 year old. Full of spunk and ideas of his own. I had just retired, and Toby was to become my old lady horse. My horse objectives were evolving from wanting a horse with whom to compete to wanting a safe horse to enjoy whatever kind of riding I wanted to do. While I had ridden since a 6 year old and had been fearless with my own spunk in my younger days, I was now a young 62 and brand new to being a student of the “natural horsemanship” approach to training and riding horses (versus the more traditional, frequently rigid, Calvary-originated approach.) In the first decade of  the 21st century, “Natural Horsemen”, who had always been around, but viewed as mystical “horse whisperers,” became more available to the general horse community. They began to created easy-to-follow programs and took their philosophy and program on the road. There are lots of def