So Tristan had chiropractic work on Friday, after much angsting on my part and carving room in the budget for it. He felt much more free thr...

I've been keeping a bit of a secret, horse blog world. Tristan's odyssey with his feet is no secret, and for the past 2.75 years or ...

The farrier was out last week, and Tristan has his winter snow shoes on. Two main changes to the shoes: first, the studs you can see ...

I am still catching up on blog-reading, and SprinklerBandit's post about Courage's problems with the farrier made me realize I hadn...

You may remember that about three weeks ago, my farrier raised some concerns about the way Tristan's RF was growing out and healing. Ba...

Tristan saw the farrier yesterday. Originally, our plan was for him to lose the front shoes back in April: from the front, it looks like the...

I missed an important milestone last week: one year since Tristan's surgery. One year ago today, he was on stall rest in recovery, and n...

Late Monday, the barn owner checked in with me to ask if I'd talked to the vet about dropping off more ace for Tristan's farrier app...

As I mentioned, Tris is finally wearing normal shoes! Here's pictorial evidence: For comparison, here's what that same foot looked l...

First things first: I've often said that my barn, which is at a higher elevation than most of the other places in my life, has its own w...

So, updates, finally. Last Saturday night I left work and got to the barn, saw that the farrier had not trimmed Tristan's back feet to...

Things: Yesterday, I left work two hours early to head to the barn to help out with a work day. I had intended to leave much earlier, but ...

After a weekend out of state visiting family, I had a routine medical procedure Monday morning. It was supposed to take 5 minutes and leave ...

My lip is way less swollen today, though it is just painful enough to be putting me in a low-grade bad mood all day, which I really didn...

On the one hand: I helped out with chores again today, and there were only two of us, and it was a completely packed and busy six hours. I w...

I'm not saying I won't be checking back in with pictures of Tristan's foot as the last of the awfulness grows out, but these are...

I RODE MY HORSE LAST NIGHT. For the first time since August 14, when I finished my weekly lesson with a feeling of disquiet and thus start...

The formalin/iodine mixture wasn't doing the trick on Tristan's scar tissue, so last night the farrier cut the tissue out and then c...

This morning, after much waiting and gnashing of teeth, I met the farrier to glue on Tristan's fancy new shoes. I tranq'd him, and i...

Auuuuugh how is it that Tristan's new shoes were overnighted in Monday and they're STILL not here? I'm going to try to take Frid...