We don't just ride, we work and condition our horses. So an indoor arena is an absolute necessity in North Iowa.

You should have heard the stutter of surprise when they announced we were from Nora Springs, Iowa. We're a well kept secret.

But their temperament is loving and playful.

There's more of a necessity to work with minorities, period.

Thirst after Desert, not Reward.

The ancients saw work as a necessity and a curse, ... The medieval Catholic church bestowed on work a simple dignity; the Renaissance humanist gave it glamour. But the Protestants endowed work with the quest for meaning, identity and signs of salvation. The notion of work as something beyond mere labor, as work-plus, indeed as a calling, highlighted its personal and existential qualities. Work became a kind of prayer. More than a means of living, it became a purpose for living.