Today is my birthday! Being that I am a Christmas baby, usually we are traveling or Christmas shopping or doing something along those lines on my birthday. This year we stayed in town for the holidays, so that meant I got to do whatever I wanted… which turned out being totally awesome. After birthday breakfast tacos, we headed to the Austin Zoo. This isn’t your average privately funded zoo – all the animals are rescues from roadside circuses, pets gone wrong,…
Taking a break from the 30 day challenge for a few seasonally related posts! Plus tomorrow is my birthday and I’m hoping to spend some time at the barn taking pictures, hanging out with ponykins and giving him his Christmas present. With that I present to you a guest post from Simon… What Simonpants Wants, Needs, and Desperately Deserves for Christmas I am a remarkably good horse, and deserve to be showered with treats and affection. Before this past summer,…
After short but nerve wracking (for me at least) show season, I’ve been laying low with Simon and not riding quite as often. So instead of yesterday, the last time I rode was Monday for my weekly jumping lesson. Kathy’s theme of the week was courses with technical challenges, so I was pretty excited. In the division that we show in, the most complicated thing that is ever asked is a roll back and at the November show I totally…
I’ve been silent at the blog most of this year, but it’s not from lack of Texas activities. Really the biggest change has been simple – I got a horse. I know we’ve heard this before on this blog. Since I moved to Texas, I did a lease to own on a backyard draft horse and lost a lot of money when he came down with a strange disease and I had to give him back. Then I rode a…