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…
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…
Simon and I wish you a wonderful holiday! Stay safe, happy and warm with your friends and family. Oh, and give your horse a kiss if you can 🙂
Simon doesn’t usually write guest posts, but when he does… he’s begging for Christmas gifts. What Simonpants Wants, Needs, and Desperately Deserves for Christmas – 2013 Edition Update for the mass public – even though I didn’t know about treats until the summer of 2012, I have now had a full year of treat eating under my belt. My palette is also refined enough to now enjoy carrots, so I recommend you mail them to Texas. I live in the main barn…
I am the first person to admit that I’m a bit of a conformation idiot. I can tell if a horse is shaped like a donkey (and is in fact, a horse… not a donkey) but that’s about as far as it goes. So when I looked at these two comparison pictures, I was kind of like “WAH HE LOOKS THE SAME. No proof of hard work.” Therefore, I whined to Jen. Jen is not a conformation idiot, and said she…
I think winter coats on horses belong in one of two categories. One being, the adorable category. Adorable as in the sweetest eyes you have ever seen. Who do those sweet eyes belong to? That’s Jen’s new Haflinger my new pony. His name is Paddington. You can give him a fro. Paddington gives 0 f’s about the fro. He’s just going to stare at you all cute like. You can braid his mane like a My Little Pony. Paddington don’t…
Not the TV show, the word no equestrian likes. Yes folks, my magical ponykins is l-a-m-e. Friday night we had a great ride where he felt 98%, but I figured the missing 2% was due to somewhat sloppy footing and didn’t think anything of it. Saturday I audited the Bernie Traurig clinic (more on that in another post) and didn’t make it out to the barn. When I got him out Sunday afternoon, he felt very behind my leg which is…
I had a bit of an epiphany last night, but it seems silly now that I sit here and write it down. In the interest of sharing and learning and all things bloggy – I’ll write it down anyway. So we’re working on our flat work. Last time I reported, my trainer basically told me that I had to make my horse work. Stop dropping his shoulders in the corners. Be “mean” if he doesn’t listen when I ask him…