Things are pretty slow here, but the weather is getting dryer so hopefully that means lots of riding in my future! To beat the slowness, I’ve crafted a little online equestrian challenge that I offer up to you all. I love a good scavenger hunt, and think this will be fun! Here’s how it works – I have ten items outlined below. If you want to play, look for a video or image (please link images back to the source…
Shopping for riding clothes is always hard. They’re expensive and they fit weird and they can be oh so exciting, but also a huge let down. Add being a non-traditional size for a hunter/jumper rider, and the challenge grows. Though I’m not a fashion diva at the barn or in real life, I have tried my best to dress just as stylishly as thinner equestrians. The general tips are stay away from super Euro or super trendy, and SmartPak is…
After doing my 30 before 30, I decided a year long birthday challenge was something fun to add to my yearly blog goals. However, I didn’t want to do another horse bucket list this year. Therefore, I asked readers to help me come up with photography ideas that they would like to see on the blog. It was fun reading everyone’s suggestions! I took all of them to heart, and added some of my own as well. Some were modified…
My mood has been foul this week for no particular reason. I could dwell on that, or I could distract myself with an equestrian fantasy in The Owl’s Approve‘s blog hop this week. I choose option two. Let’s pretend that financial restrictions don’t exist and logistics isn’t a nightmare. If you could do anything with your Ponykins, what would you do? If I could do anything with Simon, it would be show at WEF for the entire twelve week circuit….
While you wouldn’t expect a Texan to complain about the weather, winter riding and winter survival in general is a bit different here. See, up north where it’s truly cold, there are institutions set up to deal with the cold. These institutions include things like snow plows, covered riding rings and winter jackets. A cold day in Texas means “put on a sweater”. Cold + any type of precipitation? Forget it. If it’s below 40 and raining, we’re going to…
I have a question to pose to y’all today. In its simplest form… do you let your dog(s) sleep in the bed with you? Before you answer, let me give you background. When I was a kid, our family dog was primarily an outdoor dog. She slept in the garage with a dog bed, and when it was especially cold outside my parents let her sleep in my house. On those rare nights, she slept at the foot of my…
All Thoroughbreds are cool, but it’s pretty much a fact that North Carolina and Texas Thoroughbreds are the coolest! Okay… I may be a little biast there, but today’s awesome OTTB comes from my former NCSU Equestrian teammate Bette. Meet her pretty mare, Marley 🙂 What is her registered name? Cool Marlene Lineage? Finn McCool x Mean Marlene (Citidancer)- She does have some fun names in her pedigree- Secretariat, Native Dancer, Northern Dancer, and Storm Cat- of course these are…
For the first time in four years, I won’t be traveling to watch the Winter Equestrian Festival this year. I’m a little sad about it. It was always a good time visiting one of my closest friends. Even above that, there’s nothing in the world like WEF. When they describe it as horsey disneyland… they aren’t joking! I often hear that people found my blog through the WEF posts, and a small, silly part of me thinks I may be…