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Morning's Gentle Delay The day began with the soft patter of rain, a sound now familiar and sometimes a call for a change of plans. An early appointment with a couple of retirees in Indian Hill was postponed

The Morning Debate It was a beautiful fall morning, the kind that makes you grateful for the work you do, even when it's hard. I found myself debating whether to stop for breakfast. Time is often of the

Last day before a nice break. Its been a really tough week with plenty of beatings from the horses. Its a seasonal thing. Every year around this time of the year the horse's turnout changes and they really,

I woke up before the sun and braved the chilly morning air for an hour-long drive to Union, KY. I needed some fuel for the long day ahead, so I made a quick stop at Waffle House for breakfast. Then, I

Meet my rc car crew

Its another beautiful and cool early fall morning to shoe some horses. This is my absolute favorite time of day and year. Unfortunately, this weather that I feel is perfect for working is also very fleeting.

Sept 8th. I made the decision. Content creation and open DYI is now my career. Shoeing horses is nearly over. Until then, it is still content and I have years of unedited stuff on drives also. I have been

It was obvious right away that this was going to be another hot and humid summer day. I had no idea how much work I had to do at my second stop, which is a rough one on a good day. Hot and humid before

This is one of my oldest clients (as in I've been working for her for the longest) and the only one I still go to Kentucky for. I still go there because I can make the trip, work on as many I my body can

I hoped I would get away with a week off at my furthest and toughest stop this week, but I fully expected that something like this would happen. We tried. The barn staff is gone this week and we tried

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This is for a horse that has been diagnosed with navicular syndrome. I like to think of navicular syndrome as similar to carpal tunnel syndrome in humans. Its not cool. These guys often don't like the

It has been cold in the mornings lately, but this morning really stepped up the suck. Its 20 degrees and that is not optimum weather to get the tools out and shoe horses today. Luckily, we live in modern

This week I had a few stop where the horses were out when I got to the barn. It happens, I'm not mad or anything, but it does cause hassles. I'm not mad because I have the best clients and this kind of

Boo has a chronic lameness. It appears to be navicular syndrome of some fashion. We have been working as a typical farrier, trainer and veterinarian team with this horse, experimenting on what we can do

These are the kinds of problems that can occasionally happen in late August around here but its only mid June now. We did have some pretty nice weather for a bit, but then it went straight to this crap

Here I am again at my weekly Wednesday stop at Honey Tree Stables. It's the toughest stop I have. But, I do get to put some nice shoes on. I've come to like these Kerckhaert Classic Roller shoes on the

This is an ongoing project exploring how to create tools, shoes (appliances) and attach those appliances to horse hooves in an effort to promote movement and soundness. What I mean by that is this section

This exercise is a way to practice drawing as many clips as we can from a single used horse shoe. The idea came to me while I was apprenticing with Dave Farley back in the mid '90s. I had asked him to

Temperatures are all over the place these days. It's been a little warm the last few days and today wasn't even all that cold - but I was. Being around 30 deg F when I got up around 5am, I did go ahead