First, I want to announce the winners for my final giveaway contest… Custom Bonnet! Carly S with a pink and navy bonnet! Mini Painting! Bette! Photography Art Print! Bryce! Congrats to ya’ll. Now I have to get super busy making and getting all these prizes mailed out… no rest for the wicked? Now there’s one more lady for us to celebrate, because she’s made it to 1,000 blog posts. That’s huge. Think of how many blogs come and go, and then…
True blogger confessions time: recently I’ve become aware that I had grossly over estimated my abilities as a rider. See, I’ve been a hunter gal all my life (even little local stuff.. still counts) and did one jumper show with moderate success. Plus, my horse is a little bit awesome… when he’s sound. Therefore, I’m obviously ready to make the switch full time to little jumper, right? Yeah, no. So the jumpers are much harder and I have a lot to…
I waffled about doing 2pointtober this year, but apparently I easily succumb to peer pressure. Last year I participated and impressed myself with a BLAH time. I said to myself, “Self – you are not a horrible two pointer. Good job you!” Then my trainer told me I was doing my two point incorrectly. Whoops. Let me draw you a picture: This is the cartoon version of the two point I thought I was doing. Also, please note how beefy…
When I watched The Grand Budapest Hotel, I was hoping it would be about Budapest since that’s one of my favorite European cities. Alas, I was disappointed in the subject matter – so this blog post will have to suffice as my stroll back into travel nostalgia. Fun fact, did you know Budapest is actually two different cities separated by a river? It’s really Buda and Pest. Tim and I went together in 2008 right after Christmas as part of an…
So. It seems everyone some are upset with me about the anonymous blog survey posts. I have mixed feelings about that, which I don’t think I’ll go into. Instead, I’ll say that I promised I would post all the responses… and I did regardless of how I felt about some of them. Like almost everything in life, I don’t think that little blogging series was wholly good or bad. This is not a post about that though, even though it was spurred…
I’ve been wanting a new helmet for a long time. Of course, this want happened during my “don’t spend any money and pay off your credit card” budget time this summer, so I missed all the Helmet Awareness day sales. I decided that my current helmet was two years old with no falls, so I didn’t really need a new one. At the show on Saturday, I complained about my helmet all day. See, I can only perfect hunter hair…
Some of you may have noticed last week that I was schooling Simon in a dressage bridle. No, we’re not moving to the dark side… but we were reviewing a dressage bridle from Horze! I’ve actually never bought, borrowed or used a black bridle with a flash attachment, so this was a first for both me and my horse. While I do think he looks quite handsome in the bridle, I had mixed feelings on the Horze Novara Bridle. Instead of…
It’s the final anonymous survey blog post! I daresay today is the least controversial of the three posts… which may be good. I get the sense that after last week’s post, everyone is ready for a little less drama on their lives! Thoughts on overall horsemanship. I had a bad experience in IHSA, and I’d like to share it, and call out a few specific barns in the process… but I don’t want to stir drama. Seriously though, it’s not okay…