6/ FEBRUARY 2022 THE RIDER Ole Smokie and Catch Up On Goals


time really is speeding up. I like the idea where people aren’t


making news years resolutions any more. Seems like it’s passé. One goal I gave myself after I


sold my 2 yr. old reining filly last Sep. was to complete a fine art certification. After 3 months, I can proudly say that I have completed it.


Do The Small Chores Around The Farm


My old reining mare Jackie will


By Susan Dahl. January Blahs. I don’t seem to have time for the blahs. Don’t you find that


be 20 years old in April. I remember more than 15 years ago when I used to burn old papers in a burn barrel at the farm I had at the time. I remember someone cautioning me about not hav- ing a fire close to horses as it would scare them. Scare them!?! I had to


catch myself from laughing out loud. I was having to keep


my horses away from getting too close to the fire. I was always introducing new things to them for training and en- tertainment. I still do it today though I’m down to only 1 ole mare. This winter I’m having to burn


some weedy hay I have that the horse doesn’t like. In the first photo you can see my mare just eating good hay while I improvised and am using my old round bale feeder as the burn barrel. Just to prove that my mare really


doesn’t care about the fire, I have an- other photo of my mare having walked past it. I think 2022 is going to be a crazy


year with all the things happening in the world. I want to give a big shout out to


all those truckers , at the time of writ- ing this article, heading to Ottawa to save Canada. My dad was a trucker and my brother is one also. I’m very proud of those truckers. Putting A Spin On Things To Do


In The Wintertime Reinersue @KISS Reiners


About Susan Dahl Susan Dahl, ORHA/NRHA past multi-


ple champion, writer, blogger, author and clinician, retired certified profes- sional horse trainer. Owner of Foun- dation Reining Training Centre in Durham, ON. She specializes in effec- tive horsemanship, and reining. For more information on her services: judging, clinics or resale horses, please contact her on facebook, her website:


ship.com or reinersue@hotmail.com


www.reinersuehorseman


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