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…
When we last left off, I had completed the hunter derby successfully but hadn’t yet fallen off. When do I bust my bum? Stay tuned! After the hunter derby we had what was supposed to be a brief break before the jumpers start, but it ended up being much longer. The 2’0″ jumper division had a decent amount of riders, and they decided to let people take a break before their jump off… which made things take a lot longer….
There is too much to tell about my fun day at the LOPE Benefit show! Instead of writing a novel, I’ll break it up into chunks. For those of you who like the cliff notes, here they are: I was ridiculously over dressed and wore a shadbelly Had some of my personal best riding over fences (in my opinion) NECK RIBBONS I fell off! Now, the nitty gritty details! 7:45am was the first posted ride time for our hunter/jumper gals…
Last year I had puppy fever in the worst way. I needed another dog like a whole in my head… but I needed a puppy. We casually looked at a few for adoption, but decided it wasn’t a great time. I tried to put my puppy fever in a box and close it, but then my trainer put this photo on facebook. I melted. Even though I wanted this puppy, I knew I didn’t need a puppy so I told my…