I admire blogger’s who puts controversial topics out there, because it’s something I do myself a lot. I also respect the following blog, but I really disagree with the case against the OTTB from Sprinkler Bandit last week. Now before I write my rebuttal, I want to place a few caveats to the following. A) I have potentially the world’s safest OTTB. I admit this. I am no star rider, and Simon makes up for my flaws in so many ways….
I’m back in Texas after four days spending time with family in my home state of North Carolina. I could have been grumpy driving into work this morning, but it’s hard to be sad when the shoulders of the highway are covered in blue bonnets and it’s low 70’s when I walked out my front door. Love. Spring. There’s not much exciting to report about my weekend, but I wanted to post something today before I attack y’all with more Pin Oak…
Late blog post today because I guess with a dead cell phone and no dogs to wake me up… I needed to catch up on sleep. A lot of sleep. Over 12 hours of sleep – whoops! So anyway, last weekend at Pin Oak more than one person commented to me about how the junior riders looked like they weren’t having any fun. Pairing that with a conversation with a friend who told me about a horrible show of…
Last Sunday for my lesson, my horse was “wild.” Believe me, I am just as shocked as you. Now don’t get me wrong… Simon is still my wonder horse. In fact, his wildness makes me laugh more than makes me annoyed. I’ll try to give you a play by play of the lesson as best I can, since there’s no media proof that any of these events happened. You’ll just have to trust me. He warmed up like a Grand…
Still editing photos from over the weekend, but I’m going to have to step on it because I’m heading out of town for a long weekend to go home to North Carolina. Simonista is getting some training rides and a lesson taken by a friend while I spend some quality time with family. The blog won’t go silent though, as I will have some Pin Oak goodness and other posts ready for y’all. Say what you want about hunter braids,…
In this blogging series, I’m sharing my knowledge as best I can about the world of equestrian blogging. Last week, we talked about the reasons to blog and picking a blogging platform. This week we’re going to tackle my favorite part of blog design – layout! This is an area where I have a little bit more professional knowledge than some others. My professional career started out with web design, and I do a lot of UI layout these days….
It had been a really long time since I had taken images I was happy with at a nice horse show. With the heritage Pin Oak Charity Horse Show a mere two hour drive away, I decided to trek out this weekend in search of some AA pony time. And I found ponies, literally. Also junior hunters, adult jumpers, and some AO/junior jumpers. All the pretty horses essentially. Being me, I tried to take a series of photographs to turn into…
This is not an exciting or insightful or funny or filled with pictures kind of post. I hope to have more of those next week! Instead, this is a post about my lesson for me. Majority of my lessons are small group jumping lessons, which makes sense since Simon and I are jumpers. However, I’ve recently become pretty addicted to flat work. My horse gets more and more schooled and I keep finding these new gears and buttons. A good…