Our Cavalaria

This summer once each month we host the Academy de Cavalaria. During this time we practice medieval horse war training games.

And that is how we spent our day yesterday.

We practiced Tilting at Rings with Lance, Pig Sticking with Lance, and Mounted Crest Combat.

To the right is a picture of Willa on Sabrina one of our thoroughbreds. This was the second time Sabrina has ever done the games and the first time she has done pig sticking. She was a true champion. She really enjoyed playing--even mounted crest combat.

We also played with William (American Thoroughbred), Autumn (Appaloosa), Scotch (Appendix Quarter Horse), and Mercedes (Thoroughbred).

All the horses enjoyed the rings. Pig sticking however, was another matter. William (who had done it before) didn't enjoy that very well at all. Suddenly the pigs (gunny sacks with filling) becamse horrible horse eating monsters. Scotch who was trying the pigs for the first time, didn't have any problems until Philipe tried to get him to go over the pigs. He went over okay--but he did it by jumping straight up into the air. Philipe felt very glad to have stayed on.

The weather was lovely-- a little on the warm side, but all in all pretty nice.

A great fun day on the ranch.

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Hi, I'm Willa Rose, one of the partners in Dream River Ranch. Our Ranch is located in Oasis Idaho, about 30 minutes to the east of Boise Idaho and about 15 minutes from Mountain Home Idaho.

The Ranch is located on land that would be classified as steppe if it were located in Central Asia.

The air is perfect, generally pollution free and we are sufficiently outside of the city that there is no light pollution in the evening. As such we have excellent views of the night sky and it's like living in a planetarium.

We chose this land and purchased it to give life to a common ideal, the formation of an equestrian community based on the concept of intentional community. As our Mission Statement says: "

Dream River Ranch is an intentional community centered on a quality horse facility. We have created a society based on consideration for others where diversity and acceptance of others is a priority. This is a place where learning and creativity are encouraged; where we are committed to conflict resolution through consensus; and where we are dedicated to being good stewards of our environment."

If you think that this is a bunch of hippie blather, rest easy. We are hard working professionals who have a common interest in both working hard, and having fun. I'm a equestrian instructor with more than 30 years of experience. My husband is a counselor. And other members of our community are an executive secretary, an IT professional, and a physician.

Read this blog, it will help you follow our adventure.