It’s summer in Texas y’all, and that is no joke. I spent about seven years of my childhood competitive figure skating, and about another four teaching lessons in high school. Just adding that little tidbit to say that I much prefer cold to heat. Have you seen how blonde I am? I’m convinced I am a Norwegian that got dropped off to grow up in humid North Carolina. I didn’t like the heat there either, but it sure beats 105…
The last morning of the horse show, I leisurely arrived at the show grounds again (love a “will not start before 9:00am class!) and opted not to lunge since it was pouring rain. He had worked pretty hard the day before, and I didn’t anticipate any shenanigans. Since I felt so brave over the 2’6″ jumpers the day before, I briefly thought about adding a 2’9″ class to end the weekend on a challenge. Sunday I decided against this for…
After a brief break for Simon to eat some hay and me to change his bit back to our normal setup, we were on again for the 2’6″ jumpers. Our first course was the same as my previous 2’3″ class, so I didn’t have to do any more memorization (score!). Waiting for our round I was super relaxed… which is a big deal for horse show nerves me. Therefore, Simon was also super relaxed. None of the jumps looked big to…
If you like cliff notes, here’s the high level overview: I had so much fun this weekend. Simon was an absolute rock star. Seriously y’all, he was just so good. I could brag about him for days… and I guess I will be since I’m breaking up the show write up into several posts. There’s just a lot that happened and a ton of photos so I wanted to write everything as detailed as possible without making the show post into a…
I’ve had three official “jumper” lessons now. That basically means I’m an expert. Right? Right. Since I’m such a baby jumper expert, I will drop some pearls of my new-found knowledge on you. Bam! In jumpers, there are more jumps. Shocking I know! When I used to be like “Ah, I’m so ready for this hunter course to be done” around fence 8… in jumpers, I’m still going. I’m still going and I also have to jump off (hopefully) soon….
There have been some great Transformation Tuesday stories submitted so far. When looking through some old photo albums, I realized I had my own transformation story to share about the horse I never talk about. The horse that kind of haunts me a little. This is the story of Beckett, my third horse. My former trainer has a knack for finding a diamond in the rough, and when she talked to an AQHA trainer friend of her’s I got super…
I may just start calling her the master of blog hops instead of Viva Carlos, but today she brings us another great blop question I’m answering: Why do you continue to ride? No doubt my life would be much simpler without riding. My house would look nicer. I’d have better clothes (you know, the normal variety). There would be time and money for more traveling. For a while I would have told you that my husband would be a lot…
I love buying my horse stuff. He has a collection of bonnets and a respectable stack of saddle pads. It’s not just Simon either, like many of us equestrians I just love buying things for “my baby.” I don’t anticipate that ever changing. However, I don’t necessarily have the budget for unlimited shopping sprees and the latest and greatest of everything. In fact if I were to be honest, big purchases are either put on my credit card if they’re absolutely necessary…