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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,

It has been a rough summer for horse hooves. In this video, I work on two horses. The first horse has good feet and gets shoes, but he second horse lost a shoe last time and busted his hooves up out in

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.

Morning Shoeing I love these early fall mornings. It's in the mid 50's F and the a little foggy. It makes for a great and rather extended golden hour. This is my shoeing rig that I want to turn into a

It was a night and a morning of pain, so I ended up going to the chiro and hearing that I am way out of alignment and old, lol. My body is showing its age. No shoeing horses today. Of course, the rest

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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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

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

The lackawanna was strong this morning. My 5am coffee and computer time was met with a new companion; my Buddy propane heater and he just kept whispering for me to stay right where I was. It was all I

Here I am at 5am with my coffee and my computer, but still have a cold. Not bad or anything, but its certainly not likely to be a world beater of a day. Plus its raining, so I won't be doing much outside.

Spring hasn't quite sprung, but it is fucking psycho. Yesterday, throughout the night and then still a lot of today has been very windy. That wind has brought down a lot of branches on our squiggly little

Currently, it's just our garage. Complete rebuild plus Port & Polish for a Yamaha Blaster Believe it or not, this little space has come a long way. -> Will post about that soon. The goal is to continue

I really need to get this Raspberry Pi doing something... It's part of the 3D printer build, intended to be used as a documentation and production machine to run the printer. Another typical filthy spring

I'm just going to have to admit that I'm: Lazy"Over ambitious." Luckily, I do like to clean and organize, as well as "do my homework". Super Duty: The windshield washer is broken. Shop Update: I really