Catching Pixie

Pixie’s full name is “Picture Perfect” and it suits. She’s beautiful. Her mom Ami (seen in the background) is an Arab and her dad is a Morgan – so Pixie is a Morab. She’s black with white socks on her back feet and I love her.

I’ve been taking natural horsemanship lessons for a couple years at a wonderful place called Harmony Horsemanship in Deerfield, Wisconsin. Last week I was offered an amazing opportunity to help train Pixie. I can hardly express how excited I am. The two people who train horses at Harmony Horsemanship, Ted and Paulette, are amazing trainers (of horses and people) and I feel so lucky and honored that they think I am useful enough and know enough to help them train this amazing horse.

Now, I’m not sure when the training will start, but I’m going to try my best to use this blog to chronicle my journey. Everyday that I’m out there I learn more about horses and myself. I’m sure I’ll use some posts to describe how this process has changed me as a person and how I use horses as the best anti-anxiety medicine out there. I’ll use other posts to describe the natural horsemanship techniques I’m learning.

Today was my first time in the pasture with Pixie and Ami. Ami is already semi-trained. She walked up to me immediately and let me pet and rub her. Pixie was much more cautious and today she was pretty content with just looking and smelling. But that’s a good first step and I’ll gladly take it!