New Blogging Going On

August 15, 2011

I guess it is never going to rain again. Every morning we wake up to hazy wet looking skies and then about 10 a.m. the sun comes out and fry’s us!! We are getting tired of hot weather and drought!! But I guess we better get used to it, because it might last longer. I have noticed it looking more fall-y in the evenings though, so maybe we will get some relief soon.

This blog is an add on to our Mustang Blog. It is going to be about the life of a horse clinician and his wife. But it will be from the viewpoint of the wife. Because that is what I am. Sometimes I love it and sometimes I don’t like it so well. Jere and I have worked so many low paying and difficult jobs, that we are thankful for anything like this where we can make a decent living.

When I decided to write this Blog, I wanted to do four things. First, I want to try to give you an idea of what we do in our lives on a day to day basis. Second, I want to keep all our students and students to be apprised of the dates and times of the events we are having. Three, I would like to entertain so that you will read my blog!! And fourth, I would like to educate about Natural Horsemanship.

Here is a little background on us. We are Jere and Cathy Johnson. Jere was born in Colorado and his Dad was a horse trader. I also was born and raised in Colorado as a dairyman’s daughter, who was nuts about horses from the time I was a little girl. We both had four siblings and we both were raised in rural areas. We met at Otero Junior College in La Junta, Colorado and married. We have three children, Cully, who lives here, Cory who lives in Waller, TX, and Jereny who lives in Burnet, TX . All of them are in the horse business of one type or another and we consider ourselves very lucky in that way.

We have been able to stay close to the horse business through the 46 years of our marriage. Jere and I both worked in feed lots, for veterinarians and on ranches. We have taken a few jobs out of our field, like working in a warehouse, working landscaping, and a few things like that. But mostly we have worked with and around horses.

This week was a pretty busy week for us at the Center. We have had 2 new horses come in and we need to get these owners, who don’t know much about Natural Horsemanship going on understanding the program and why their horses do what they do. We train the owners along with the horses. There is no use working with the horse and sending him home and then the owner can’t get the horse to do anything. We always say a horse is not like a motorcycle. You can take the motorcycle to the garage and have it overhauled and take it home and park it in the garage. The next time you want to ride it, you just put the key in and off you go. A horse is not like that. They are living, breathing, thinking animals and you have to have a relationship with them, make some time for them, and want to put them first.

Well, that is enough for now.  I am going to try to blog every week, so next Sunday will be my day again.  Thank you for reading it!!