Usually I have blog posts written for here about a week in advance, or at least a decent queue of pre-written posts to pull from when I’m not feeling creative. Maybe it’s the winter or some other stuff going on, but lately I’ve had a hard time writing as much for the blog. I’m not giving up my Monday – Friday posting schedule, but it is a bit more of a struggle. However, I do want to share a little…
Let me start off this lesson recap blog post by noting two very important things. One – my trainer said that if we had been able to ride consistently for the past two months, we wouldn’t be having any of the problems we’re having. Two – a barn friend’s boyfriend took pictures of our lesson, and he’s basically the best person ever. I owe him brownies. With that being said, I’m going to keep this on the shorter side today…
I haven’t written about my rides much lately for several reasons. At first, they were super bad. Simon was protesting the inconsistent riding and lack of jumping in the best ways he knows how – being super anxious and rushing through everything. No listening to my seat. No softening at the bit. The wonderful flatwork we had worked so hard to get last fall disappeared, so I got super down about it. Obviously he has ulcers. Needs a chiro visit….
The minute I saw Beka’s post about the Archie scrapbook, I knew that I had to participate in this week’s blog hop. You see, once upon a time I was an avid scrapbooker. You can add that to my dorky hobby list, if you’re keeping track. I would scour craft sores in search of horsey themed paper, embellishments and all other sorts of cool papery things. My scrapbooks started pretty elementary and eventually got fairly well designed as my tool…
A while ago, I had lunch with several barn friends and the men in our lives came up. One who was single at the time said, “I just want someone who won’t get upset about the horses!” It’s a pretty valid request, as we all know just how much time and money horses take up in our lives. Today I want to focus on the money part though. Does your significant other get upset about the money spent with horses?…
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 know everyone says this on New Years, but I just find it absolutely crazy that it’s 2015 already. Soon we’ll be firmly in the 2020’s and the world will be surrounded by flying cars and jet packs… at least that’s what I learned from Sci-Fi films. Right? But for now, my horse agenda remains as blissfully mundane as ever. Last year, a lot of my goals were performance oriented. The same is true this year, but instead of “I…