I was planning to have an awesome lesson write-up post for you with tons of new and improved jumping pictures. But I have jack. Why? Because I hate the weather. I know that immediately I will get a bunch of comments about how much worse your weather is than mine, but at the moment I don’t care. I lost a lot of days riding this week due to rain, and when it was beautiful low 70’s and sunny on Saturday, all the…
I love my barn, so I figured this blog hop would be a good opportunity to show it off! Plus, it’s really neat to see the different places that everyone rides. There is a lot of variation per disciplines and location. View of the Barn There’s actually four barns on the property, but this is a shot of the main one as you’re walking from the parking area to it. Horse’s Living Space Simon has had several different stalls on…
One of my personal goals this year was to take more photos with my ‘real’ camera instead of my iphone… and even though that’s a personal goal I am 100% okay with those photos being horsey! I’ve lugged ‘ol trusty to the barn the past few weekends, and spend a little bit wandering around like a crazy person with a massive lens in tow. Crazy person or not, I really enjoy taking more photos again and am pleased with some of…
I get asked a lot about my time working at SmartPak, but it’s been a long time since I worked there and I’m not really the best person to ask. However, that doesn’t mean that I want to leave y’all high and dry! Jessica is someone I met while working there, and she is one of the most professional, smart and driven people I’ve ever met in the work place – equestrian jobs or not. Of course she was a…
Once upon a time, I lived in NC and boarded at a legit “A” barn for the first time in my life. The trainer there at the time was from New Jersey and grew up riding the 3’6″ big eq and all things legit hunter/jumper. She was the real deal. In contrast, I had my from-the-newspaper QH without lead changes and didn’t really know what being in a “program” meant. She didn’t have a problem with those things as I…
I love Karen’s blog, Bakersfield Dressage not because I’m the world’s biggest dressage nut… but because she is an insanely positive person and much wiser than I am. So it’s not surprising that she came up with an idea that I adore and had to make my own version of. From her blog: Mary Baker Eddy says in her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “Are we really grateful for the good already received? Then we shall avail ourselves of…
I’m kind of a sucker for photo challenges, and since one of my personal goals this year is to take more pictures… I’m all for Eventing in Color‘s 14 Photo Challenge. The only rule was that they must be photos taken in 2014… well I took all of these this past weekend at the barn, so I think that counts!
Remember that time when I was like it’s flat work boot camp time! And I was all gung-ho and all COUNTER CANTER ALL THE THINGS! And Simon’s brain exploded? Oh wait, I didn’t tell you about the brain explosion part. So, flat work boot camp started out fantastic. We did bending! We did circles! We did rollbacks! We did counter canter! We did canter extensions! We did transitions… well, we didn’t do transitions. Instead, we did a series of really shitty…