To All My Wonderful Friends at Bits & Bytes Farm

I just wanted to write and say how extremely happy all you guys have helped to make me since I have been here visiting and Aly of course since the whole time he has been here. We both owe all y’all much more than you know. It has been so uplifting and cheering to see…

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Happy Birthday Alex and Aly!

Happy Birthday to Alex and Aly from all your “Friends at Bits & Bytes Farm”. The “A Team” shares a birthday as well. Alex knew they were meant to be a team when she saw they shared the same birthdate. Click on the YouTube video above for your birthday song.

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More Firsts! Canter, Trail Ride, Jump

I didn’t expect that we would canter so soon, but I was really excited, and I know I was extremely tensed up and I could tell Aly was being a bit pushy for one of the first times since I’ve seen him, when we were trotting on the longe line, waiting for me to be ready. It was so incredible for me to see how after we got into that first canter, how he calmed down, back to the business-like, happy boy that he is. He KNEW that we were ready to step up to the next level, and he didn’t want any backing out on my part!

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Desensitizing Techniques for the 21st Century: Laptops & Kitty Cats

Also, for the record, as seems very fitting to me, since he is from Bits & Bytes Farm, Aly has been properly desensitized to laptops! The other night I took mine out there to work on homework a bit, and although I didn’t get much work done, I did get some done with Aly! When I sat down beside his stall and opened the laptop, boy did his nostrils flare!

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