This blog, my Cowgirly Blog is likely to be full of random musings, thoughts, ideas, tips- whatever comes to mind.
But lately ol' Cowgirly has been thinking long and hard about blogs- there are some very opinionated, spiteful people out there in the horse world and I decided to add a breath of fresh air to blog-land by creating the Happy Horse Tails blog. I guess I just got tired of clicking around the Internet seeing nothing but complaints and unqualified opinions :P
So I made http://www.happyhorsetails.blogspot.com/ and it's pretty simple- positive, uplifting, amusing horse stories (poems, top 10 lists, etc also welcome) by the readers for the readers. Submitters can include name and location and their website, if they wish (heck, I am all for a shameless plug- how do you think I got here!) but the goal is to give horse people a place to read true stories, straight from the horse (owner)'s mouth. Not over-edited, and not judged.
Some ideas of what you'll see are:
- stories of first horses
- stories of horses and riders reunited
- tales of horses and their owners reaching a goal
- great stories written from the horse's perspective
- stories of horses who are heroes
- tales of first shows, parades, or wins
- poems about horses or horse people
- Tributes to a parent, trainer or other horsewoman (or man) who inspired you
- Top 10 lists (from favorite supplies and items to pieces of advice!)
and stuff like that.
I invite you to submit to me at cowgirly@cowgirly.net and I will get them posted. A photo or two is welcome with your submittal, but not required. More submittal info is available on the blog at http://www.happyhorsetails.blogspot.com/ but it's pretty simple- write me with your story, I will clean up any typos or major grammatical errors and post if it it is
- funny
- courageous
- pleasant
- inspirational
- interesting
- amusing
- positive
You can submit your favorite work by another author, just please ask permission and give me their name so I can credit them (I will still include 'submitted by' on there).
Thanks to those of you who have submitted already. I look forward to making Happy Horse Tails a welcome rest stop on your ride around the Internet. :)