{"id":36,"date":"2010-11-27T11:37:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T17:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liverystable.net\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2010-11-27T11:37:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T17:37:59","slug":"im-thankful-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liverystable.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/im-thankful-for\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m thankful for…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cricket\"<\/a>Although Thanksgiving \u2013 and the Holiday season in general, tends to make us occasionally reflect on how good we\u2019ve got it.\u00a0 Most of us are so blessed that we truly can\u2019t even comprehend all the good things that happen to us every day.\u00a0 For those of us who count horses among our blessings, we really have it good.\u00a0 So, today I\u2019d like to give thanks for our old mare Cricket.\u00a0 We bought her from a couple in Missouri who were professional rodeo competitors \u2013 her, a barrel racer and him, a bull rider.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think they had reached the level where they were making millions of dollars, in fact, I think they were just scraping by, but I digress\u2026<\/p>\n

They had purchased Cricket (\u201cCrick-ee\u201d as I call her, \u201cCrooked\u201d as my \u201cspeech impaired\u201d mother calls her!) for her young daughter to learn to run barrels on, however, Cricket didn\u2019t have much speed and she was lazy, she also knew how to bluff this very young girl and one day, when Cricket decided to go stand by the trailer in the shade instead of run barrels, they decided to sell her.\u00a0 My wife and I bought her because I needed a \u201cbeginner\u201d horse and Cricket has done everything to fill the bill.\u00a0 I have learned to be a\u00a0much more confident rider because of her good and bad traits.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cricket doesn\u2019t like to work and when she does have to work, she doesn\u2019t like to work very hard.\u00a0 She tries to go back to the barn if you take her out by herself, and if we\u2019re working cattle, she only wants to work next to another horse, not go out and chase a stray cow by herself.\u00a0 However, she doesn\u2019t buck or run away, she doesn\u2019t rear and if you are firm with her in what needs to be done, she obliges.\u00a0 From her I\u2019ve learned how a horse can bluff and that if you let them get away with it, it is many times harder to deal with it the next time, but I learned it from a safe old girl who didn\u2019t have any intent to harm herself or me in the process.\u00a0 My riding has become better and more confident because of her.<\/p>\n

As someone who had a pretty healthy fear the first several times I rode, I\u2019m thankful that Cricket has made me want to ride other horses \u2013 not that I don\u2019t like riding her, but for quite awhile, I felt she was the only horse safe enough for me to ride, but now I feel like I can ride another horse besides her and live to tell the story!\u00a0 The last time we visited my in-laws and we all were choosing horses to ride, I offered to ride a horse that was somewhat green and I knew it was a horse I could ride and I had no reservations about it being just a little green.\u00a0 I owe that newfound confidence to Cricket and her tolerance of me!\u00a0 Now I\u2019m excited to have my kids develop the same confidence through riding her for the next few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although Thanksgiving \u2013 and the Holiday season in general, tends to make us occasionally reflect on how good we\u2019ve got it. Most of us are so blessed that we truly can\u2019t even comprehend all the good things that happen to us every day. For those of us who count horses among our blessings, we really have it good. So, today I\u2019d like to give thanks for our old mare Cricket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horse-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liverystable.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liverystable.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liverystable.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liverystable.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liverystable.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liverystable.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/www.liverystable.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liverystable.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liverystable.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liverystable.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}