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The first of the Journey North entries.

Posted by Webmaster at 11:00 AM on January 26, 2010

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Due to my lack of internet, it has taken me a very long time to get started on this project - transcribing the details of the journey - the journal entries. It will be a drawn out process, feel free to check back for new entries and pictures as my time and circumstances allow...

Day Minus 3 - Monday June 29

I love my job, at least most days

Let me tell you about a horse named Blaze

Nice kid’s horse and was I amazed

To see Bl...

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Up to Snuff - Stone

Posted by jouLe at 02:13 AM on February 11, 2009

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This is just a little note that I sent off this evening and thought I would share with you all as well Stone's latest escpade in the wilderness, his first ride this year, and since August long weekend.

He took it all like an old trail horse. Better, in fact, because he still knows how to side pass and take both leads. We walked, trotted, loped circles in the pasture up the road, which means we also went up the road, with the dog and another horse, who we rode wit...

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A Different Sort of Winter

Posted by jouLe at 01:48 AM on February 11, 2009

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Well now, it has been just as white and probably colder than the average Saskatchewan not-so-sunny-Season, but otherwise, at least around here, things have been a little different. That is to say, I have not been around so much. For much of December and the first part of January I was entertaining life (and, primarily, work) in another province, while my flocks and herds were well tended by the dearest of neighbours and friends.

My roommate of 4 years, dea...

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Changing Focus

Posted by jouLe at 11:16 PM on November 11, 2008

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You may have garnered from other pages on my website that my career focus is going through some changes. Foremost, I am not booking any outside horses for training next year, but rather hoping to train people to train their own horses. I have several reasons for this change, not the least of which is that it is so obvious to me that every one who handles a horse is in effect a trainer, and most of them don't even realize it. How many times I have heard someone say, "well, I am ... Read Full Post »

Good Time For a Drive

Posted by jouLe at 05:55 PM on September 21, 2008

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The weather is perfect, the colours are beautiful, the air is lovely.

Well, I stopped in Sicamous yesterday for the traditional ice cream cone from the dairy there, and being homesick and missing my critters, I went to visit the animals before getting my ice cream. I didn't get any ice cream after all, just pictures and video and a sore heart and a bitter resentment and a firm decision to end that traditional cone. Telling my... Read Full Post »

Holidays for Real

Posted by jouLe at 02:25 PM on September 18, 2008

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Well, epiglottis or none, I am going on a holiday after all. Today is day ... 3? Inclusive. I sent all my client horses home on the weekend of the 13th and hit the road Tuesday afternoon west bound.

Somehow, I managed to leave an hour and a half behind schedule and still get to Lloyd on time, without speeding! Remarkable. I am obviously getting better at planning.

So Tuesday I went for supper in Lloyd with Jason, Erin and Ayden, and... Read Full Post »

Holidays from Holidays and Danza's follow up.

Posted by jouLe at 07:03 PM on July 25, 2008

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Well, that was a long and workful week. It was a lot of work running the bar and I felt like the festival was just starting when it was over on account of having been tied up and missing the festivities and the people most of the weekend. Now I am home and I am tired, but things are going well, and there is a new brood of chicks! I came home to another banty hen with 10 little fluff balls running about her feet. Fun.

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Time Out

Posted by jouLe at 01:43 AM on July 15, 2008

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Well, I am leaving tomorrow for a week of working holidays (honestly, is there any other kind?). I will not be able to answer any correspondence beyond tomorrow (Tuesday) morning, or POSSIBLY Wednesday morning. Ness Creek is calling, as are my trimming clients up around Blaine Lake/Leask, as they have been put back too long with all this Danza-in-the-hospital business. Well, Danza is doing wonderfully. Yesterday and the day before we went riding, and she is the same horse... Read Full Post »

Completely Off Topic...

Posted by jouLe at 02:23 PM on July 09, 2008

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Beauty. I went to see Mark Knopfler last night. For years my dad has said he is the best guitar player. The best. I have always been a fan - Dire Straits - always. But I did not know just how good. Mark Knopfler. The man can play guitar. He can make it sing. He can make it dance. He can make it cry. Make me cry. I cried. Brothers in arms. The man can play guitar into the core of my soul - to that place in my stom... Read Full Post »

Where Does the Time Go?

Posted by jouLe at 08:03 PM on July 06, 2008

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Danza is doing very well. I removed her sutures 2 days ago and the incision is closing up nicely. Her trach hole is nothing but a small scab and some scar tissue under the skin - a bit deformed, hopefully it will shape up as time goes by, but I guess we'll see. Not all went as planned - the Friday night after surgery she managed to get rid of her trach, and it so far has not been recovered. I would be THRILLED if someone came up with a metal detector to help with that tas... Read Full Post »

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