by Dutch Henry | Coffee Clutch, Horse Care
OUR MEMORIES AND DREAMS OF HORSES WE’VE KNOWN Howdy Friends! Our thoughts of our departed equine partners, I believe, are a connection to their spirits. Not merely memories, though memories are precious, but conduits by which we travel and visit with them again and...
by Dutch Henry | Coffee Clutch, Horse Care
WHEN I LOOK AT A HORSE Howdy Friends! When I look at a horse I see the horse it can be, wants to be. Somehow I look right beyond the stiffness, lacking posture or inverted body carriage. . Like a sculptor who looks at a chunk of granite and chips away all the tiny...
by Dutch Henry | Coffee Clutch, Horse Care
HOW DO RIDERS BREAK DOWN THEIR HORSE’S POSTURE Howdy Friends. How do riders break down their horse’s posture? . Well actually in many ways, but the biggest culprit is bracing, conscious or unconscious. When a rider squeezes its knees, braces, against the side of the...
by Dutch Henry | Coffee Clutch, Horse Care
BAREFOOT HOOF TRIMMING 101 Howdy Friends! I don’t believe in pareing the sole, at all. I don’t believe in trimming the frog, both these things will take care of themselves if you have your horse on proper footing, that is areas of rock, not just grass,...
by Dutch Henry | Coffee Clutch, DEVOTIONAL, Faith
DISAGREEMENTS – DEVOTIONAL Howdy Friends! “Ya know it’s not that terrible. But darn, I wish just some of the time my boss would come around to see why I’m right and he’s wrong.” I heard myself tell Grandpop. I wasn’t sure he got the message so I added, “I do know what...
by Dutch Henry | Coffee Clutch, DEVOTIONAL, Faith
HOW CAN THE BLIND SEE – DEVOTIONAL Howdy Friends! It began as so many other days, with a brilliant sunrise. “Haven’t seen such a painted morning in some time.” Grandpop told the boy. “Let’s sit a spell and take it all in.” Grandpop said. . The boy and the old man sat...
