It feels like it’s been a really busy year for me, but in some ways it’s the quietest year we’ve had in a looooooooong time. We did not move out of the state this year We did not move at all this year We did not buy a house this year I did not change jobs this year I did not get married or engaged this year I haven’t been able to make all of those above statements since 2006…
I actually have a lot of diy/house/craft blogs coming up because I’ve been busy in that front, but since my lovely husband was nice enough to come out to the barn on Sunday and take some pictures of me and Gatsby – you have to sit through another horse post before we get back to crafty things. Non-horsey people can just look at all the pretty pictures and ignore the boring technical riding stuff. Ready? Oooooooo. Ahhhhhhhhhhh. Okay, in reality…
I’m back on a diet… again. Before Christmas I had lost about 20 lbs in two months through a medical weight loss plan (not surgical, just diet and an appetite suppressant) which was amazing – but the weight fell off so fast that once the holidays came around it came back on equally quick. After a few months of floundering around in the new year and a whole bunch of “I’ll start that soon,” I got the same kick in…
A few years ago, the Facebook “Bumper Sticker” app was really popular along the same time as that “Apple Bottom Jeans” song. This lead to some equestrian somewhere on the internet making a graphic that made me laugh – a picture of Fleece Lined Open Front Jumper boots that said “Boots with da fur!” Flash forward to last night, when I’m shopping for my own pair of decent jumping boots on ebay to celebrate the fact that my horse not…
If you’ve been around horse shows much, or even if you haven’t, there’s a good chance you’ve heard the term “Push Button Horse.” It usually goes something like this. Two girls watch a nice horse and rider win many classes at a horse show. Girl 1 says to girl 2, “She’s just winning because she has that expensive push button,” and Girl 2 agrees. The term means that the (usually expensive) horse is like a robot, and all the rider…
It’s official – I have a new pony to lease, and I love him! When I bought Teaspoon in Nov 2010, I had a definite type in mind for the kind of horse I wanted. Either a big bodied QH, Warmblood, or Draft Cross. A slow minded gelding. Not reactive, and a definite “push” ride. Of course, sometimes our horses get hurt and then we don’t have thousands of dollars to replace them with fat fancy Warmbloods. I started riding…