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Mrs. Nettles, I have briefly met you at the futurity when purchasing items but you do not know me. I just wanted you to know how much I enjoy your “gab” each month in the qh news. Yours is the first I turn to when I receive the news. I can clearly recognize that you [...]

The year was 1982. That’s the year Smart Little Lena won the Futurity, “E.T.” was the movie to watch and in cutting circles, if you wanted a laugh, “Cuttin’ Capers” was the book to read.  The introduction to that little 142-page book states,             It all started quite innocently. One person and then another would [...]

            If you’re in the horse business, you know about fast trips – the ones that ordinary folks view as requiring vacation time to make them. I have a brother-in-law who believes a 3-hour trip to the lake and back home is a 3-day event.             Not so in our household! Let hubby Ronnie start [...]

            Lil and Rascal’s puppies just turned 7 weeks old, and last week I had planned time to start advertising them for sale – well, that was the plan.               Rascal is the Australian Cattle Dog with me in my profile pic and he is really a sweetheart. Highly intelligent Rascal and his mom Allie, (the [...]

            Thank you so very much for the awesome stirrups. They are gorgeous and a wonderful tool as well. So many rider’s do not understand that the base of a balanced position begins with a good boot positioned correctly in a well made balanced stirrup (especially in a fast paced event like barrel racing)              [...]

            We like it when people are happy!             Barrel racer Sharon Camarillo and equestrian Science professor Donna Irvin visited with Nettles Stirrups about building a stirrup that would assist when performing in speed events.              We did; sent both Sharon and Donna a prototype to test-drive. Here’s the email Nettles Stirrups received from Donna [...]