Gussie Glamour

I have intended to get pics of Gussie for many months now, and KEEP forgetting.

Gus Will Be Traded

I have suggested sending Gus to a professional for one month.  She is such a smart girl and I believe that a month would be plenty of time for her to learn some ground manners and a basic work ethic.  Hopefully she would also begin to realize that squashing fences is not a good thing.  After that, I think she would be very reasonable to work with and would progress really fast.  She has a sweet and mostly cooperative disposition.  She has simply been trained for too long to evade whatever she doesn't want to do.
He does not want to invest more $ in her for training, so she will be traded at the first opportunity.

Thus ends the saga of Gussie, the Big Horse Who Could Have.

Floppy Helmet Ride 07.10.11

Nice warm July day for a trail ride.  Fortunately not AS hot as I feared, very thankful for that.  Our merry band of misfits today:  Debra with Queen Clem, Farmer John and Pretty Boy,

Gus Drops Out (or Jumps Out) of School

This afternoon I showed up for some work with Gussie.  Gussie even showed up today.  She was a complete no-show yesterday.  It was not her idea, but she was present.  Her attitude was very different, immediately, today.  She was not happy to be confined in the round pen.  We started easy with some simple trips around

Gus Goes to School

Gus was introduced to the round pen this evening.  Actually, I guess she was introduced to it a couple of weeks ago when it appeared in her pasture.  Until this evening, it was just another pile of stuff in her way.  She handled it a little better than I had anticipated.  She gave about three serious considerations to going over,

Vermont uses draft horse to lay cable for Internet access

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By Zach Howard

HARDWICK, Vt | Tue Jun 28, 2011 4:58pm EDT

(Reuters) - In Vermont's remote Northeast Kingdom an aging Belgian draft horse named Fred is part of a team racing to bring broadband Internet access to all corners of the state by 2013.