Taking a break from the 30 day challenge for a few seasonally related posts! Plus tomorrow is my birthday and I’m hoping to spend some time at the barn taking pictures, hanging out with ponykins and giving him his Christmas present. With that I present to you a guest post from Simon… What Simonpants Wants, Needs, and Desperately Deserves for Christmas I am a remarkably good horse, and deserve to be showered with treats and affection. Before this past summer,…
When I get down about my riding, I look back to some moments of time riding during college. Before Beckett ruining my confidence and before I gained a bunch of weight – I was a confident and fit rider. That person is slowly coming back! The best example of my riding oddly enough happened when my horse, Elvis, was off due to a freak eye injury (I’ll have to blog about that one later). A really nice family at the…
After short but nerve wracking (for me at least) show season, I’ve been laying low with Simon and not riding quite as often. So instead of yesterday, the last time I rode was Monday for my weekly jumping lesson. Kathy’s theme of the week was courses with technical challenges, so I was pretty excited. In the division that we show in, the most complicated thing that is ever asked is a roll back and at the November show I totally…
I thought a good way to get back into blogging and introduce new readers to my pony self would be to do a 30 day challenge. Plus let’s be honest, I need a schedule to get back into a blogging routine. I grabbed this list from Viva Carlos after spending what I think is a solid afternoon reading her old posts (this is without saying, my favorite horsey blog btw!). I started riding when I was ten years old after…
I’ve been silent at the blog most of this year, but it’s not from lack of Texas activities. Really the biggest change has been simple – I got a horse. I know we’ve heard this before on this blog. Since I moved to Texas, I did a lease to own on a backyard draft horse and lost a lot of money when he came down with a strange disease and I had to give him back. Then I rode a…