Redmond Equine Blog

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God Made a Horse… for Community

Daily routines are a necessary part of my life providing reliable order to keep my family running smooth. My routine yesterday unexpectedly went awry and through the chaos, I recognized another gift from God revealed through our horses… the gift of...

You Can Lead a Horse to Water…

Getting a horse to drink enough water has been a challenge for a long time. So long, in fact, that “you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink” is the oldest English-language proverb still in use, appearing for the first time before...

Do you know your Redmond Salt?

8 Fun facts about Redmond: • Our Salt mine is in Central Utah, in the little town of Redmond. Let us know if you are ever close by and maybe you can come down and mine your own rock. It gets pretty dark down there. • We have enough salt to in the...

Our First Solar Project at Our Salt Mine

We just passed our final inspection, which makes it official: Redmond completed our first solar power project!

Finding the Courage to Get Back On Your Horse

One day I was riding in a lesson with my daughter on her instructors’ horse. My horse decided he didn’t want to be a nice hunt seat horse at that moment and a rodeo horse seemed to be much more fun. We made it around the arena and were halfway round...

What Do You Do Just For The Love of It?

Horses are bigger, faster and stronger than us, their human comrades. We compete with them, relax with them and work them into a sweat. They can unload us at any moment of their choosing. But most of the time, they cooperatively do the great and...

God Made a Horse – For My Family

When my now 10-year-old daughter was five, I had a difficult time finding an activity she loved. Everyone in gymnastics already knew how to cartwheel, cheerleading was too loud and soccer was too competitive. I found a lovely small riding facility...

God Made a Horse – For Us

God made horses to heal wounded hearts. God made horses so kids could pour out their hurt, their loneliness and their rage about abuse, neglect and injustice to the horse, who listens quietly; feeling heard, the child’s bitterness washes away.

God Made a Horse… for Stacey

Horses have always been inside my head. My strongest early “horse memory” – probably at age four or five – is reading the book Casey the Clumsy Colt. It was a horsey take on the bull in the china shop, and I read it over and over. At the time my...

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